The 2008 UAW-Dodge 400 was the third stock car race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 2, 2008, before a crowd of 153,000 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The 267-lap race was won by Carl Edwards of the Roush Fenway Racing team who started from second position. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second and Edwards’ teammate Greg Biffle was third.
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The 2008 UAW-Dodge 400 was the third stock car race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 2, 2008, before a crowd of 153,000 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The 267-lap race was won by Carl Edwards of the Roush Fenway Racing team who started from second position. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second and Edwards’ teammate Greg Biffle was third. Kyle Busch won the pole position, which he held for twenty laps until he was passed by Edwards. There were eleven cautions and 19 lead changes by nine different drivers during the race. Edwards was later issued with a 100-point penalty after his car was found to violate NASCAR regulations, dropping him from first to seventh in the Drivers’ Championship. Ford took over the lead of the Manufacturers’ Championship, five points ahead of Dodge. Chevrolet moved clear of Toyota in third place, with 33 races left in the season. The race attracted 12. 1 million television viewers. Before the race, Kyle. Busch led the drivers’ Championship with 335 points, ahead of Ryan Newman in second and Tony Stewart third. Jimmie Johnson was the race’s defending champion. The standard track is a four-turn 1. 5-mile oval. Its turns are banked at twenty degrees and both the front stretch and the back stretch areBanked at nine degrees. NASCAR held the second of its two pre-season tests for Sprint Cup entrants on January 28–29 at Las Nevada Motor Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races.
Sixty-seven cars participated in the January 28 morning session; Denny Hamlin was quickest with a top speed of 178. 265 miles per hour, whileKyle Busch was quickest in the afternoon session, with aTop speed of 183. 350 milesper hour. Several incidents occurred during the second session; Regan Smith spun leaving turn-two and damaged his car’s nose after hitting the inside wall. Jeff Burton damaged the right-hand side of his car after hitting a cement piling after swerving to avoid a tow truck. During the third session with seventy-four cars, Edwards had the fastest speed of 184 miles perhour, and Juan Pablo Montoya recorded the fastest of the two days in the fourth and final session. Having won twice at the track in the early 2000s, Kenseth said he enjoyed racing at Las Las Vegas and hoped the race would be able to contend for the top-five finish for the race this weekend. He was confident he could secure a top five finish, and said he believed he could be in contention for winning the race for the first time since he won the race in 2000. After the race was stopped for 17 minutes when Gordon crashed on lap 262, and car parts were strewn into the path of other drivers, requiring officials to clean the track. Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards were fourth and fifth, and Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, JimmieJohnson, Jeff Burton, Brian Vickers and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out the top twelve.
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