2008 Centurion Boats at the Glen

The 2008 Centurion Boats at the Glen was the twenty-second race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the second and final road course event of the season. The 90-lap, 220.5 miles (354.9 km) race was held on August 10, 2008, at Watkins Glen International Raceway in the New York namesake village. ESPN carried the race at 1 pm US EDT and MRN along with Sirius Satellite Radio had radio coverage starting at 1:15 pm US EDT.

2008 Centurion Boats at the Glen

Race details[1]
Race 22 of 36 in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season
2008 Centurion Boats at the Glen program cover
Date	August 10, 2008 (2008-August-10)
Official name	Centurion Boats at the Glen
Location	Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.45 mi (3.942 km)
Distance	90 laps, 220.5 mi (354.86 km)
Weather	Temperatures up to 77 °F (25 °C); wind speeds up to 11.1 miles per hour (17.9 km/h)
Average speed	97.148 miles per hour (156.345 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing
Time	2008 Owner's Points
Most laps led
Driver	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps	52
Winner
No. 18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing
Television in the United States
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Jerry Punch, Andy Petree and Dale Jarrett

The layout of Watkins Glen International NASCAR uses.

Pre-race news

• As this event is being held on a road course, several cars are changing drivers to use road course ringers in place of their regular drivers. Among those expected to run at The Glen:
  • Marcos Ambrose will be in the No. 21 Ford Fusion for Wood Brothers Racing;
  • Boris Said was to have brought out the No. 60 Ford for his self-owned No Fear Racing team, and his "teammate" Brian Simo was to have driven the No. 34 Ford, usually raced for Front Row Motorsports as a Chevrolet, however with the cancellation of the qualifying due to rain, neither car made the field;
  • Canadian Ron Fellows, who won the previous week's rain-shortened NASCAR Nationwide Series NAPA Auto Parts 200, will drive the No. 01 Chevy for Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Regan Smith, the usual driver of the No. 01 and a Raybestos Rookie contender, to run a fifth (#81) DEI car for his home race; however, it was announced that the No. 81 car was withdrawn, because Smith had been in 20 races through the Pennsylvania 500.
  • P. J. Jones will be in the No. 96 Toyota Camry for Hall of Fame Racing, replacing J. J. Yeley, who was released. For the rest of the season starting at Michigan, Brad Coleman will take over.
  • Max Papis will race the No. 70 Chevrolet for Haas CNC Racing.
• Kyle Petty was planning to return to the Petty Enterprises No. 45 this week after an absence of nine races - the first due to his daughter's wedding, the next six to be color commentator on TNT, and two following his annual motorcycle charity ride for the Victory Junction Gang camps in North Carolina and Kansas. However, a deal with Boris Said will have him in the car this week.

Qualifying

For the second straight year, qualifying was cancelled due to rain, so the rulebook was used to set the starting field with Kyle Busch starting on pole based on owner's points.

Failed to make race as qualifying was cancelled due to rain: Boris Said (#60) and Brian Simo (#34).

Recap

Kyle Busch set a new NASCAR record with his eighth win of the season, his sixteenth in all three major NASCAR series and swept the road course races by winning. A major accident with eight laps remaining led by Michael McDowell and David Gilliland colliding with one another causing a total of nine cars to be in a wreck. Gilliland hit the tire barrier head on and got hit again 3 more times by Bobby Labonte, Dave Blaney, and by both Max Papis and Joe Nemechek. The wreck also collected Reed Sorenson, Michael Waltrip, and Sam Hornish Jr., who hit the yellow barrels on the entrance of pit road. It also caused Ryan Newman's car to stall but Newman had no damage. The wreck delayed the race under a red flag for 45 minutes. Kyle Busch's win also clinched a spot in the 2008 Chase for the Sprint Cup, which includes the top seed.

Results

POS	ST	#	DRIVER	SPONSOR / OWNER	CAR	LAPS	MONEY	STATUS	LED	PTS
1	1	18	Kyle Busch	M&M's   (Joe Gibbs)	Toyota	90	227000	running	52	195
2	9	20	Tony Stewart	Home Depot   (Joe Gibbs)	Toyota	90	192036	running	1	175
3	43	21	Marcos Ambrose	Little Debbie   (Wood Brothers)	Ford	90	141095	running	0	165
4	25	42	Juan Pablo Montoya	Big Red Slim Pack   (Chip Ganassi)	Dodge	90	137983	running	2	165
5	18	1	Martin Truex, Jr.	Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats   (Dale Earnhardt, Inc.)	Chevrolet	90	133783	running	0	155
6	11	29	Kevin Harvick	Shell / Pennzoil   (Richard Childress)	Chevrolet	90	134661	running	0	150
7	4	48	Jimmie Johnson	Lowe's   (Rick Hendrick)	Chevrolet	90	132236	running	2	151
8	10	11	Denny Hamlin	FedEx Ground   (Joe Gibbs)	Toyota	90	113866	running	0	142
9	3	99	Carl Edwards	Office Depot   (Jack Roush)	Ford	90	121425	running	0	138
10	19	2	Kurt Busch	Miller Lite   (Roger Penske)	Dodge	90	81225	running	0	134
11	37	84	A.J. Allmendinger	Red Bull   (Dietrich Mateschitz)	Toyota	90	74075	running	0	130
12	13	17	Matt Kenseth	DeWalt   (Jack Roush)	Ford	90	120241	running	0	127
13	32	01	Ron Fellows	Bass Pro Shops / Red Head   (Dale Earnhardt, Inc.)	Chevrolet	90	80475	running	0	124
14	7	9	Kasey Kahne	Budweiser   (Gillett Evernham Motorsports)	Dodge	90	100141	running	0	121
15	22	19	Elliott Sadler	Best Buy / Garmin   (Gillett Evernham Motorsports)	Dodge	90	96520	running	0	118
16	20	26	Jamie McMurray	Crown Royal   (Jack Roush)	Ford	90	76800	running	0	115
17	5	31	Jeff Burton	AT&T Mobility   (Richard Childress)	Chevrolet	90	109833	running	0	112
18	17	83	Brian Vickers	Red Bull   (Dietrich Mateschitz)	Toyota	90	75925	running	0	109
19	24	5	Casey Mears	Kellogg's / Carquest   (Rick Hendrick)	Chevrolet	90	81950	running	0	106
20	39	10	Patrick Carpentier	Charter Communications   (Gillett Evernham Motorsports)	Dodge	90	67600	running	0	103
21	8	16	Greg Biffle	3M   (Jack Roush)	Ford	90	75400	running	0	100
22	2	88	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.	National Guard / AMP Energy   (Rick Hendrick)	Chevrolet	90	74800	running	33	102
23	12	07	Clint Bowyer	DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket   (Richard Childress)	Chevrolet	90	82025	running	0	94
24	40	45	Boris Said	Marathon American Spirit Motor Oil   (Petty Enterprises)	Dodge	90	84458	running	0	91
25	36	00	Michael McDowell	Champion Mortgage   (Michael Waltrip)	Toyota	90	82733	running	0	88
26	16	12	Ryan Newman	Kodak   (Roger Penske)	Dodge	90	104700	running	0	85
27	31	7	Robby Gordon	Jim Beam   (Robby Gordon)	Dodge	90	87758	running	0	82
28	27	15	Paul Menard	Menards / Quaker State   (Dale Earnhardt, Inc.)	Chevrolet	90	73350	running	0	79
29	6	24	Jeff Gordon	DuPont   (Rick Hendrick)	Chevrolet	90	111011	running	0	76
30	14	6	David Ragan	AAA Insurance   (Jack Roush)	Ford	90	73425	running	0	73
31	30	41	Reed Sorenson	Target   (Chip Ganassi)	Dodge	90	91989	running	0	70
32	34	77	Sam Hornish, Jr.	Mobil 1   (Roger Penske)	Dodge	90	107125	running	0	67
33	28	44	David Reutimann	UPS   (Michael Waltrip)	Toyota	89	64850	running	0	64
34	35	66	Scott Riggs	State Water Heaters   (Gene Haas)	Chevrolet	89	72933	running	0	61
35	15	8	Aric Almirola	U.S. Army   (Dale Earnhardt, Inc.)	Chevrolet	89	95283	running	0	58
36	23	28	Travis Kvapil	Hitachi Li-Ion Power   (Yates Racing)	Ford	89	88164	running	0	55
37	38	96	P. J. Jones	DLP HDTV / TheHiDefinitionStore.com   (Jeff Moorad)	Toyota	89	68825	running	0	52
38	41	78	Joe Nemechek	Furniture Row Racing   (Barney Visser)	Chevrolet	86	60650	crash	0	49
39	33	55	Michael Waltrip	NAPA Auto Parts   (Michael Waltrip)	Toyota	83	70072	running	0	46
40	26	38	David Gilliland	Dish Network Turbo HD   (Yates Racing)	Ford	81	60390	crash	0	43
41	29	22	Dave Blaney	Caterpillar   (Bill Davis)	Toyota	81	60230	crash	0	40
42	21	43	Bobby Labonte	Cheerios / Betty Crocker   (Petty Enterprises)	Dodge	81	97046	crash	0	37
43	42	70	Max Papis	Haas Automation   (Gene Haas)	Chevrolet	81	60373	crash	0	34
Failed to qualify, withdrew, or driver changes:
POS	NAME	NBR	SPONSOR	OWNER	CAR
44	Brian Simo	34	Front Row Motorsports	Bob Jenkins	Chevrolet
45	Boris Said	60	7-Eleven Slurpee / No Fear	Mark Simo	Ford
WD	Regan Smith	81		Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	Chevrolet

References

1. "2008 Centurion Boats at the Glen weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2013-06-18.

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