Noah Gragson, driver of the No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford, won the All-Star Race Fan Vote on Sunday and transferred into the main event at North Wilkesboro Speedway (8 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Gragson will join Carson Hocevar and John Hunter Nemechek, who finished first and second in the All-Star Open, respectively, as the final entries into Sunday‘s race for the $1 million prize.
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This is the third consecutive year Gragson has won the fan vote, also triumphing in 2023 and 2024. Gragson finished the 2023 All-Star Race in 23rd; in 2024, Gragson finished just outside the top 10 (11th). To date, Kasey Kahne is the only winner of the fan vote who has also triumphed in the All-Star Race, doing so in 2008.
“It means a lot,” Gragson said after exiting his No. 4 Mustang. “Really grateful to have all the support from the fans, and feel like we’ve got a pretty good race car. We struggled with … I lost power steering there in the Open race, so we’re going to try and get that better for the All-Star Race. But it’s just such a cool atmosphere here. It’s such a cool experience, and very lucky to be able to be a part of it.”
The All-Star Race Fan Vote is a tradition that began in 2004. Ken Schrader won the first vote, with additional recipients through the years including Kyle Petty, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards and Danica Patrick.
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