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Four biggest surprises of the Monster Energy All-Star Race

Kyle Busch used a great late-race restart to capture Saturday night’s Monster Energy All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the $1 million first-place purse.

The victory was Busch’s first in the All-Star Race and just the second for Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota, with the first coming in 2015 with Denny Hamlin. Here are the four biggest surprises of the all-star race:

Stars struggle
4 Stars struggle

While Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing shined, other stars of the sport struggled mightily. Martin Truex Jr. won last year’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, leading a record 392 of 400 laps.