The next NASCAR All-Star Race is on Sunday, May 23, 2027, at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina. Denny Hamlin won the 2026 race at Dover from the pole. This page carries no price on the 2027 race yet.
The All-Star Race is a non-points exhibition, and its winner takes a $1 million prize. This page keeps the 2026 result as the record and will carry the 2027 board once one exists. For how NASCAR markets work, see our NASCAR betting guide and the NASCAR section of our blog.
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The 2027 race
NASCAR’s 2027 Cup Series schedule puts the All-Star Race on Sunday, May 23, at North Wilkesboro. It sits between the Cup race at Dover on May 16 and the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte on May 30. The start time, the television partner and the lap count are not on that schedule yet.
The move takes the race off a 1-mile concrete oval and back to a 0.625-mile asphalt short track. NASCAR lists North Wilkesboro’s banking at 14 degrees in the turns and 3 on each straight. Our guide to NASCAR track types explains why a short track plays so differently from an intermediate oval like Dover.
How the 2026 race was won
The 2026 race ran on May 17 at Dover Motor Speedway, the first All-Star Race held there. It was 350 laps in three phases: two 75-lap segments and a 200-lap final segment for the money. Hamlin started from the pole, passed his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe with 29 laps left and won by 0.887 seconds in the No. 11 Toyota.
Hamlin led 103 laps of the final segment and Briscoe 61, so the two of them led all but 36 laps of it. NASCAR’s recap counts it as Hamlin’s second All-Star win in 20 starts, after Charlotte in 2015, and makes him the third driver to win the race at more than one track.
The first segment decided who could contend. Two nine-car crashes bookended it: the first, at the end of Lap 1, ended Ryan Preece’s day and damaged Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott, and the second, three laps from the end, collected Elliott again along with Christopher Bell and others. Bubba Wallace won Segment 1 and Tyler Reddick won Segment 2.
| Finish | Driver | Car |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota |
| 2 | Chase Briscoe | Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota |
| 3 | Erik Jones | Legacy Motor Club Toyota |
| 4 | Austin Dillon | Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet |
| 5 | Connor Zilisch | Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet |
| 6 | Austin Cindric | Team Penske |
| 7 | William Byron | Hendrick Motorsports |
| 8 | Michael McDowell | Spire Motorsports |
| 9 | Alex Bowman | Hendrick Motorsports |
| 10 | Brad Keselowski | RFK Racing |
Recent All-Star Race winners
The race has had four different winners in the last four years, on two tracks.
| Year | Track | Laps | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dover | 350 | Denny Hamlin |
| 2025 | North Wilkesboro | 250 | Christopher Bell |
| 2024 | North Wilkesboro | 200 | Joey Logano |
| 2023 | North Wilkesboro | 200 | Kyle Larson |
Logano led 199 of 200 laps in his 2024 win. In 2025 he led 139 laps and still lost, after a promoter’s caution on Lap 216 bunched the field; Bell took two tires under it, restarted sixth and passed Logano on Lap 241 of 250 to win by 0.829 seconds.
What the format means for betting it
The rules change from one year to the next, and that is the first thing to price. In the last three years the race has been 200, 250 and 350 laps, and in 2025 a caution called by the promoter, new that year, turned the race against the leader. NASCAR’s 2027 schedule lists no format or lap count, so any early price is a bet on rules nobody has seen.
The second is attrition. In 2026 Elliott, Larson and Blaney, three past winners of the race, were eliminated or badly set back in the first 75 laps, and Connor Zilisch recovered from a pit-road penalty to finish fifth. Top-10 prices and head-to-head matchups between two drivers pay without needing a driver to survive every restart in front. Compare those prices across books with our sportsbook reviews.
This page is refreshed when the 2027 odds are posted. For each week’s race, see our NASCAR picks this week, and for other markets our expert betting guides. Records of the handicappers we list are on the handicappers page.