NASCAR All-Star Race 2019 Results: Kyle Larson Takes 1st to Win $1 Million Prize

Kyle Larson won NASCAR's Monster Energy All-Star Race on Saturday evening at Charlotte Motor Speedway, taking home the $1 million cash prize.

He topped Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch to earn the big payday.

Busch won the first stage, Harvick won the second stage and Joey Logano took home the third. But it was Larson who came away with the night's huge prize.

Logano finished fourth and Bubba Wallace came in fifth, with Aric Almirola, Austin Dillon, Alex Bowman, William Byron and Martin Truex Jr. rounding out the top five.

While Larson celebrated, however, Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman had quite the dustup:

Both drivers offered their side of the story afterward:

It isn't every All-Star event that a fight breaks out.

Of course, the race itself wasn't without drama, including Larson getting a nice little assist from Harvick off a restart to pull ahead of the pack:

After the race, Larson spoke about his big win, per Jim Utter of Motorsport.com:

"I didn't really have any plans (to spend the $1 million). This is just so unbelievable this whole day.

"... Man, this is amazing. I've been close a couple times. I feel every time I've been in the All-Star Race, I've been close to winning it. It's great to finally pull it out. There's a lot of people from our shop here today and we'll get to do a lot of celebrating. I'm excited about that."

Like Larson, several other drivers didn't automatically qualify for Saturday night's All-Star race. Both Byron and Wallace won stages at the NASCAR Monster Open earlier in the day to punch their tickets, while Bowman got in through a fan vote.

The All-Star race is much shorter than the rest of the Monster Energy Series, coming in at just 85 laps with four total stages. That often leads to a far more aggressive and exciting race, and certainly a shorter one. Add in the nighttime setting in Concord, North Carolina—and the huge check at the end of the race—and NASCAR's All-Star showdown has its own distinct feel.

And for Larson, it also put a nice chunk of change in his bank account.