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Written by Robert Trammell
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Monday, 17 November 2008 12:27 |
Nationwide Series News:
The order of the top ten drivers in the Nationwide Series point standings was the same coming out of Saturday's Ford 300 as it was going in ... with Clint Bowyer remaining Number-1, thus claiming his first Nationwide Series championship. Carl Edwards won the race but with Bowyer needing only to finish eighth or better, his fifth-place showing was more than enough to keep the Number-2 Chevrolet atop the standings as it has been since March. Edwards started second in Saturday's race and took the lead for the first time at lap thirty-nine. He passed Kyle Busch for the final lead change of the day less than thirty-four laps from the finish and motored on to his seventh victory of the season. Bowyer started thirteenth and while failing to lead at least one lap, the Richard Childress Racing driver was steady enough to finish the year twenty-one points ahead of Edwards in the final standings.
| DRIVER |
POINTS |
BEHIND LEADER |
| Clint Bowyer |
5,132 |
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| Carl Edwards |
5,111 |
-21 |
| Brad Keselowski |
4,794 |
-338 |
| David Ragan |
4,525 |
-607 |
| Mike Bliss |
4,518 |
-614 |
| Kyle Busch |
4,461 |
-671 |
| David Reutimann |
4,388 |
-744 |
| Mike Wallace |
4,128 |
-1,044 |
| Jason Leffler |
4,086 |
-1,046 |
| Marcos Ambrose |
3,991 |
-1,141 |
Sprint Cup Series News:
FORD 400: Jimmie Johnson drove to a fifteenth-place finsih in Sunday's Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, joining Cale Yarborough as the only drivers in Nascar's sixty-year history to win three consecutive Cup Series championships. Johnson's final margin of victory in the 2008 Chase for the Sprint Cup is sixty-nine points over Carl Edwards, who did all he could to pressure Johnson - winning Sunday's race and leading the most laps (157 of 267). It was Edwards' ninth victory of the year, bit it was Johnson who put the finishing touches on the eighth Cup Series crown for Hendrick Motorsports. Johnson went into the race needing only to finish thirty-sixth or better to win the title. In his final start for Joe Gibbs Racing, Tony Stewart placed ninth. He'll be part owner of Stewart-Haas Racing when the new season begins at Daytona ... in ninety days.
| DRIVER |
POINTS |
BEHIND LEADER |
| Jimmie Johnson |
6,684 |
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| Carl Edwards |
6,615 |
-69 |
| Greg Biffle |
6,467 |
-217 |
| Kevin Harvick |
6,408 |
-276 |
| Clint Bowyer |
6,381 |
-303 |
| Jeff Burton |
6,335 |
-349 |
| Jeff Gordon |
6,316 |
-368 |
| Denny Hamlin |
6,214 |
-470 |
| Tony Stewart |
6,202 |
-482 |
| Kyle Busch |
6,186 |
-498 |
| Matt Kenseth |
6,184 |
-500 |
| Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
6,127 |
-557 |
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