2017 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race
The 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race (XXXIII) is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car exhibition race held on May 20, 2017 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 70 laps, it was the second exhibition race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. This is the first NASCAR All-Star race without Tony Stewart since 1998, Greg Biffle since 2003 and Carl Edwards since 2004. Report. Background. The All-Star Race was open to race winners from last season through the 2017 Go Bowling  400 at Kansas Speedway and all previous All-Star race winners and Monster Race NASCAR Cup champions who had attempted to qualify for every race in 2017 were eligible to compete in the All-Star Race. Practice. All-Star Race practice. Kyle Larson was the fastest in the All-Star Race practice session with a time of 28.530 seconds and a speed of . Monster Energy Open practice. Erik Jones was the fastest in the Monster Energy Open practice session with a time of 28.563 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying (All-Star Race). Kyle Larson scored the pole for the  race with a time of 112.626 and a speed of . Qualifying (Open). Clint Bowyer scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.500 and a speed of . Media. Television. Fox Sports was the television broadcaster of the race in the United States. Lap-by-lap announcer, Mike Joy, was accompanied on the broadcast by retired NASCAR drivers, Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip. Jamie Little, Vince Welch, and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane. Radio. Motor Racing Network (MRN) continued their longstanding relationship with the track to broadcast the race on radio. The lead announcers for the race's  broadcast were Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace. The network also implemented two announcers on each side of the track: Dave Moody in turns 1 and 2 and Kyle Rickey in turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelly, Kim Coon, and Steve Post were the network's pit lane reporters. The network's broadcast was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.