2008 3M Performance 400

2008 Sprint Cup Series
Budweiser Shootout Gatorade Duels Daytona 500 Auto Club 500 UAW-Dodge 400 Kobalt Tools 500 Food City 500 Goody's Cool Orange 500 Samsung 500 Subway Fresh Fit 500 Aaron's 499 Crown Royal Presents the Dan Lowry 400 Dodge Challenger 500 Sprint Showdown and Sprint All-Star Race XXIV Coca-Cola 600 Best Buy 400 Pocono 500 LifeLock 400 Toyota/Save Mart 350 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola LifeLock.com 400 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Centurion Boats at the Glen 3M Performance 400 Sharpie 500 Pepsi 500 Chevy Rock & Roll 400
Chase for the Sprint Cup
Sylvania 300 Camping World RV 400 Camping World RV 400 presented by Coleman AMP Energy 500 Bank of America 500 TUMS QuikPak 500 Pep Boys Auto 500 Dickies 500 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 Ford 400
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The 2008 3M Performance 400 Presented by Bondo, the twenty-third race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, was held on August 17 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. ESPN carried the 400 miles (640 km) race beginning at 1 PM US EDT and MRN along with Sirius Satellite Radio had radio coverage starting at 1:15 PM US EDT.

1 Pre-Race News
2 Qualifying
3 Race Recap
4 References

Pre-Race News

2008 Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman will make it official: He will move to the #4 team at Stewart Haas Racing in 2009.
As announced at Watkins Glen last week, Brad Coleman becomes the driver of the #96 Hall of Fame Racing Toyota Camry, replacing J.J. Yeley, who was released. P.J. Jones was at the wheel during the Centurion Boats at the Glen.
Elliott Sadler will have an extra incentive for his #19 Gillett Evernham Motorsports Dodge this week. Should he be victorious, Stanley Tools, the sponsor on this week's racecar, will make a $1 million donation to the Children's Miracle Network of hospitals.
Mike Skinner helped the #84 Team Red Bull Toyota en route to their first exemption in the Top 35 Owners Points this year, now he hopes to get the Michael Waltrip Racing #00 car back solidly into said Top 35. For the next three races starting this week, he takes over for Michael McDowell in that car.
Darlington Raceway announced that next year's 500 mile race in May would be renamed the Southern 500, reviving the name of the traditional Labor Day weekend race that ran from 1950 through 2003, and moved to November in 2004 before being dropped as part of the settlement of the Ferko lawsuit.

Qualifying

Brian Vickers won the first pole for Team Red Bull on August 15th. Jimmie Johnson would join him on the front row.

Race Recap

Roush Fenway Racing took four of the top five places, and all five RFR cars were in the top ten as Carl Edwards won the race. Only the Joe Gibbs Racing #18 Toyota driven by points leader Kyle Busch spoiled the parade, finishing second.

Top Ten Finishers
Pos.	Car #	Driver	Make	Team
1	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing
2	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	Joe Gibbs Racing
3	6	David Ragan	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing
4	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing
5	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing
6	8	Mark Martin	Chevrolet	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
7	83	Brian Vickers	Toyota	Team Red Bull
8	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	Richard Childress Racing
9	19	Elliott Sadler	Dodge	Gillett Evernham Motorsports
10	26	Jamie McMurray	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing

Failed to Qualify: Johnny Sauter (#08).

References

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2008 3M Performance 400