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Well, Nationwide and Trucks have long schedules as well (35 and 25 races respectively), though each race isn't as long as for the Cup guys.
The reason other series here don't do longer races, above anything else, is that they can't get the TV time for full broadcasts of longer races.
The issue of race distance also gets amplified with other series, because road courses are so much slower in average speed than 1.5-mile and over ovals. The two clearly shortest Cup races, in terms of mileage, are the two road course races (Sears Point and Watkins Glen). They do 110 laps of the short, 1.949-mile course at Sonoma (214.39 miles total), and 90 laps of the short, 2.45-mile course at Watkins Glen (220.5 miles total). Even the Martinsville races are longer, as they do 500 laps around that 0.526-mile oval (263 miles total).
P.S. And if NASCAR was real stock cars, where some technical freedoms and advancements were actually allowed, I bet the attrition rate from mechanical issues would make the racing just a haphazard as LM type endurance racing. Only trouble is, with all the fender banging in NASCAR, even less of the field would be around at the finish.
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