Arena: Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Location: Concord, North Carolina.

Date: May 19, 2012

NASCAR Betting Online: Known as "The Winston" The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, then the NEXTEL All-Star Challenge from 2004 until 2007. This event is a race open to race winners from the previous season as well as the current season, plus the past ten event winners and past decade's Cup Series champions. This race has taken place at Lowe's Motor Speedway since 1985 and consists of 135 miles and 90 laps. Don't miss out on the energy and heat that comes off the speedway for an action-packed, dynamic competition.

It's 100 laps for $1 million. The best of the best in NASCAR go all out in the annual NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on May 19 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. With a unique format, short distance, no points on the line and a large sum of money to the winner, the All-Star Race regularly produces some of NASCAR’s most exciting moments.

In addition to great racing, the 2012 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race will feature a Pre-Race Concert presented by Budweiser! The 2012 All-Star Race will be one of the most anticipated events in Charlotte Motor Speedway history as this will be the first Cup race featuring the world’s largest HD video board. The 80’ x 200’ HD video board will be positioned on the backstretch and lit with over nine million LED lamps.

The 2012 Sprint All-Star race has a new “wild west” theme and, for the first time in years, there won't be a format change.

The 2012 race will be a 100-lap event, featuring four segments: - An opening 50-lap segment with a mandatory green-flag pit stop at lap 25; - A 20-lap segment after which pit stops are optional; - A 20-lap segment followed by a 10-minute beak; - A final 10-lap segment during which all cars are required to pit for four tires prior to the green flag, setting the lineup for the final scheduled restart

The 10-lap shootout, together with the double-file restarts among the leaders, has led to much closer racing in the event’s final segment. The move to double-file restarts, now the norm in the series, was first used in the 2009 all-star race.

Eighteen drivers are currently eligible for the 2011 all-star race (drivers that have won since the start of the 2010 or previous all-star or Sprint Cup champions). These are: Trevor Bayne, Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin, Jamie McMurray, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ryan Newman, David Reutimann and Tony Stewart.

In addition, the winner and runnerup of the Sprint Showdown preliminary race will also gain access to the main race, along with one driver based on a fan vote.

2012 Sprint All Star Race Winner - Jimmie Johnson Claims Third All-Star Victory

Jimmie Johnson became the third three-time champion of the Sprint All-Star Race Saturday night, joining Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon as drivers to three-peat. Johnson also won in 2003 and 2006. Johnson led every lap of the final ten-lap dash to pick up the $1 million payday. It continues a terrific week for Johnson, who won last Saturday's Southern 500 at Darlington to give Rick Hendrick his 200th win. His team then claimed the win in Thursday's Pit Crew Challenge.

It is the seventh All-Star win for Hendrick. The legendary car owner easily leads his peers in that category.

Brad Keselowski finished second, ahead of Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kevin Harvick, Marcos Ambrose, Kurt Busch, Kasey Kahne, and Ryan Newman rounded out the top-10. A.J. Allmendinger, who contended all night after transferring with his runner-up finish to Earnhardt in the Sprint Showdown, took 11th-place.

All but two drivers finished the race. Defending race champ Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle each blew their Roush-Fenway Ford engines in a spectacular fireball.

2011 Winner

the 2011 NASCAR All-Star Race didn't live up to the hype. That's disappointing, although it doesn't mean there's necessarily anyone to blame.

Every race has a winner, but not every race can be a winner. This one wasn't – unless you're a fan of All-Star champ Carl Edwards, of course.

Just last year, the All-Star Race was one of the more memorable events of the season. There were wrecks, flared tempers, hurt feelings and drama – enough to fill not only newspaper columns and highlight reels, but a flood of television commercials that relentlessly hyped this year's edition.

In one ad, NASCAR President Mike Helton dressed up like a sheriff with the drivers acting as gun-toting outlaws. Another commercial replayed crashes and aired the raw, angry radio chatter between teammates over and over – a reminder to anyone that the All-Star Race was a time for drivers to go all out, with no points on the line. Track president Marcus Smith even offered to pay any driver fines for fighting.

The buildup was immense. But if the drivers were willing to mix it up a bit, there was a good chance the race could deliver.

In the end, though, as runner-up Kyle Busch acknowledged, the race was "tame."

2010 Winner

Kurt Busch survived two late restarts and sped away from the field to win the Sprint All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday night.

"It’s an unbelievable experience," Busch said. "It’s something that you sit there and you look at the greats that have won this race, the ones that have had so many years go by in between the wins, just to have an opportunity to go for it tonight" was a treat.

Busch appeared to have the dominant car early on, but his rim-riding saw him slip into the outside wall twice and drop out of the top five as Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin emerged as the top contenders.

"Way to go, boys!" Busch shouted on his radio after winning the race and the $1 million first place prize. "Woooo! A million cool ones!"