The 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race (XXXVIII) was a

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stock car exhibition race that was held on May 22, 2022, at

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. Contested over 140 laps, extended from 125 laps due to overtime finishes in two stages, it was the second exhibition race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Report

Background

The All-Star Race is open to race winners from last season through the

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, all previous All-Star race winners, NASCAR Cup champions who had attempted to qualify for every race in 2022, the winner of each stage of the All-Star Open, and the winner of the All-Star fan vote are eligible to compete in the All-Star Race.

Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver. * (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

=NASCAR All Star Open

=NASCAR All-Star Race

Practice

Open Practice results

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was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.059 seconds and a speed of .

All-Star Race Practice results

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was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 28.838 seconds and a speed of .

Qualifying (Open)

scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.880 seconds and a speed of .

Open qualifying results

Qualifying (All-Star Race)

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scored the pole for the race by beating

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in the final round of the Pit Crew Challenge.

All-Star Race qualifying results

NASCAR All Star Open

NASCAR All Star Open results

NASCAR All-Star Race

NASCAR All-Star Race results

Overtime controversy

At the race's original final lap, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hit the wall coming out of turn two. NASCAR brought out a caution moments before race leader

passed the finish line. This meant the race would go into overtime, as the NASCAR All-Star Race rules for that year required the race end under green. Blaney was unaware of the caution and lowered his window net shortly after crossing the finish line. Driving without a secured window net is considered a safety violation and would typically result in a black flag. Blaney attempted to secure the window net by himself, but was unable to do so properly. NASCAR did not allow Blaney to come to pit road in order for his team to securely install the window net. Instead, Blaney retained his lead for the overtime restart and drove with a half-secured net. He would claim afterwards that his window net was secured during the overtime laps.

, as well as fans, later criticized NASCAR for the timing of the caution and allowing Blaney to drive and keep his first spot with a blatant safety violation. NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller admitted the caution was called prematurely and they had "no way for

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to know" if Blaney managed to securely install the window net after he originally lowered it. In response to the controversy, NASCAR pledged to increase the amount of communication between the race control, Race Director and Senior Vice President of Competition in calling cautions to prevent inconsistent calls from reoccurring.

Media

Television

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was the television broadcaster of the race in the United States. Lap-by-lap announcer,

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, and

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called the race from the broadcast booth. Actor

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joined Joy, Bowyer, and McReynolds in the booth for the Open.

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and

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handled pit road for the television side.

Radio

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(MRN) continued their longstanding relationship with

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to broadcast the race on radio. The lead announcers for the race's broadcast were Alex Hayden and Jeff Striegle. The network also had two announcers on each side of the track: Dave Moody in turns 1 and 2 and

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in turns 3 and 4. Steve Post and Kim Coon were the network's pit lane reporters. The network's broadcast was simulcasted on

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References

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