NASCAR’s Dover All Star Race format requires...

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In its first 12 months being held at Dover Motor Speedway, the NASCAR All-Star Race now has a format to be contested below the shadow of Miles the Monster.

And this one goes to be a marathon that requires little bit of arithmetic.

At the start, there’ll now not be an ‘open’ race for drivers not already locked-in to race their means into the decisive section of the occasion. With fashionable Dover races being 400 laps, NASCAR landed on 350 to honor those that yearly attend at The Monster Mile.

Each driver that enters the All-Star Race will begin the occasion however there are already 17 drivers at present locked into the third and remaining stage of the occasion — William Byron, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Tyler Reddick, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Ryan Blaney, Josh Berry, Austin Dillon, Chase Briscoe, Ross Chastain, Shane Van Gisbergen, Bubba Wallace and Kyle Busch.

The eligibility is decided by the next standards:

Winners of factors paying races in 2025 or 2026
Earlier All Star Race winners nonetheless racing full-time
Earlier NASCAR Cup Collection champions nonetheless racing full-time

The ultimate stage will embrace 26 drivers racing for the $1 million prize. The mixed outcomes of stage 1 and a couple of will get the sector to 25 drivers with the twenty sixth and remaining spot being awarded to the standard fan vote winner.

After the primary stage, which is 75 laps, NASCAR will invert the top-26 finishers which means that twenty sixth will begin first for the second stage and twenty fifth will begin second and so-forth. After the subsequent 75 laps., which is the second stage, the bottom mixed ending positions from each segments will decide the beginning lineup for the ultimate 200 lap section.

Drivers already locked-in can’t be eradicated. As much as the twenty fifth beginning spot can be decided by the drivers not but locked-in. The beginning lineup for the ultimate section can be decided by common end throughout the primary two levels. There can be a contest warning 75 laps into the ultimate stage, which is Lap 225 general for these counting.

Qualifying on Saturday will set the beginning lineup for the primary stage. The pit crew contest can even proceed to be a part of the qualifying format.

Drivers will take the inexperienced flag, run one full lap at velocity, and on the second lap proceed to the designated pit stall for a four-tire cease with no gasoline. As soon as the cease has been accomplished, the automobile will take off from the stall and race to the checkered flag. The qualifying time would be the whole elapsed time from inexperienced flag to checkered flag, with the quickest workforce incomes the pole place for the race.

The pit crew contest winner can be decided by the quickest pit cease, with timing line established as one field behind and one field forward of the NASCAR-designated pit cease field. The outcomes of the pit crew contest will decide pit field choice for the race on Sunday.