|| *Comments on the 2008 Zippo 200 at the Glen:* View the most recent comment <#41> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Anonymous posted: 08.10.2008 - 10:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good runs by Dario Franchitti and Brad Coleman. Marcos was due for a win on a Road course. 2. DaleSrFanForever posted: 08.10.2008 - 12:06 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) One week after losing a road course race with the fastest car due to pit strategy, Marcos Ambrose wins a road course race with the third fastest car due to pit strategy. Like they say, if you constantly run up front, you will get your wins. I am really happy for Marcos. He has had a great attitude and has done a pretty good job, so I am happy for him. Actually Marcos' "gamble" wasn't much of one. It was the other guys who gambled. Needing at least 14 laps of caution?? That is a lot to ask for. They weren't even close. And how cool was it to see the STP car in victory lane? 3. Patrick posted: 08.10.2008 - 1:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Stan Silva Jr's nationwide debut. 4. DaleJrFan17 posted: 08.10.2008 - 4:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yay Ambrose and Yay Sheppy! 5. newman12 posted: 08.10.2008 - 4:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) congrats to Marcos for spinning everyone but the pace car 6. Clayton posted: 08.10.2008 - 4:58 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Seeing STP in victory lane again was cool!!! Great to see Marcos win for the first time!! 7. Mr. Big posted: 08.10.2008 - 5:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) That was awesome to see the STP car in victory lane. Nice win for Marcos, and he almost pulled off an upset victory Sunday but fell two positions short. 8. WallaceFan posted: 08.10.2008 - 5:56 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Awesome Race. I cant think of any that can be mad with the outcome. Even Kyle Busch congratulated Ambrose. Great job for him. Also great runs for Franchitti, Logoano, Coleman, and Papis. 9. WallaceFan posted: 08.10.2008 - 5:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tough race for Steve, but he showed alot of maturity. He had a run on PJ Jones, and they got into eachother...on the next tun Jones spun him out. Steve did not retaliate and seemed to let the incident go..while PJ was took to the back of the field. Steve was in 9th with 3 laps to go when he ran out of fuel, again a very smart move by him..he pulled to the side of the track to let the race finish. (although the called the caution for him on the last turn..after he had been there for 2 laps) Even though he had a poor finish, its another great race for Steve. 10. WallaceFan posted: 08.10.2008 - 5:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Morgan Shepherd 24th. Get that man a good car and he will Win. Also- Sam Hornish was in 4th when he spun and was involved in an accident, but he ran a great race. Jimmie Johnson dominated and JR ran top 15..but both gambled and lost out. 11. Ambrose_fan posted: 08.10.2008 - 10:32 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The last 20 laps of this race were very entertaining. Busch and Burton were racing extremely hard, with Johnson and Ambrose running them down. Eventually, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Burton run out of fuel, handing the win to Marcos Ambrose. Kyle Busch was unable to challenge Marcos in the last 10 laps as he was caught in a great battle Kenseth, Harvick and Franchitti. 12. #20 (soon to be #14) fan But #48 hater posted: 08.10.2008 - 10:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) JOEY LAGANO: DOVER: 6TH NASHVILLE:(POLE) 31ST KENTUCKY: (POLE) 1ST! MILWAUKEE: 2ND GATEWAY: 2ND ORP: 8TH MONTREAL: 17TH THE GLEN: 7TH Good Run for joey this around. Also good runs for, Kyle Busch In a Startup team, Dario Judd, Jason Leffler, Brad Coleman, & The Guy Who Says He' Is Not A Road Racer. I Agree with Wallace fan: If Shepherd was given a car of Gibbs OR JRM Quality He Definetly win 13. DaleJrFan17 posted: 08.12.2008 - 11:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Exactly. I really expect something big to happen to him soon. Possibly a comeback with a funded team. But He should totally keep the R4J on his car because, well...thats him. 14. Mamorese posted: 08.12.2008 - 12:47 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) One of the best road course races I've seen. Great racing and a great winner. I also liked how NASCAR wasn't throwing cautions for minor spins, allowing the good racing to continue. 15. samfan08 posted: 08.12.2008 - 1:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was great to see Hornish in the top 5 for a while. Also props to Ambrose for admitting he made a mistake and apologizing. He deserved the win. 16. The Real Thomas posted: 08.13.2008 - 5:33 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Finally! That's all I gotta say. 17. dUDE gUY posted: 08.13.2008 - 1:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A thoroughly entertaining race. A big congrats to Ambrose, who drove the heck out of that car. 18. WillG_46 posted: 11.28.2008 - 11:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First win in 12 years for HT Motorsports. Only other win came with Jeff Fuller in 1996. 19. Mike posted: 01.20.2009 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First time since the Cup race in 1996 that a Ford won at Watkins Glen. 20. Anonymous posted: 06.13.2009 - 6:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Kevin Harvick scares the you know what out of Brad Keselowski! Early in the race, Keselowski drove Harvick a little too hard...Harvick promised to get him back. Later in the race Harvick is behind him on the restart. So Keselowski drives way to hard into the turn and plows into the back of Denny Hamlin. Keselowski came over the radio sounding like a scared 10 year old "I was looking at the 33 in the mirror, tell him im sorry, im sorry" So much for composure... 21. Dale Jr. posted: 01.31.2010 - 5:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Clint Bowyer and Carl Edwards tangle late in the race, leaving both drivers to a disappointing finish. With that Brad Keselowski took over 2nd in points after the race. 22. CBASS posted: 01.26.2013 - 7:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #01 Outcast Fabricators #40 Fastenal/ Ingorsall-Rand #60 Save-A-Lot Food Stores #65 A&S Metals #33 Camping World #89 Racing with Jesus/ Fleur-de-lis Construction http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-ns/photos/main-gallery/?s=5&y=2008&r=3265 23. Paul posted: 05.15.2013 - 3:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Michael McDowell's first race for Phil Parsons' NASCAR team, as well as his only Nationwide start for said team. He would attempt the Cup race at Talladega the following year for Parsons, before joining the team full-time in 2010 and, aside from leaving for Dusty Whitney's Cup team late in the 2010 Cup season (who has since merged his Cup team with Parsons'), has remained as Parsons' primary driver ever since. Dario Franchitti's 5th place finish in this race is his only top five finish in NASCAR. He ran just two more Nationwide races in 2008 before heading back to IndyCar and winning three straight championships with Chip Ganassi's team. Brad Coleman finishes 10th in his final start for Baker Curb Racing. The team would post just one top 15 finish in the remaining 11 races that season. Final Nationwide Series starts for Stan Barrett, Dale Quarterley, and Stan Silva, Jr. For Silva, it was also his only Nationwide Series start. Also the final Nationwide Series attempt for Alex Garcia, who had qualified for the previous five road course in 2007 and 2008 before failing to qualify for this one. 24. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 12.21.2014 - 4:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Updates #61 Stanton Barrett #62 Charles Shoffner Stanton Barrett was using Specialty's points and Specialty's enter the #62 because Stan was using there #61 car Same thing for Montreal 25. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 01.16.2015 - 5:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Update #52 Ed Rensi (Bobby wanted to run this race and Ed used Means Owner Points) Crew Chief of the 52 was Frank Stoddard Plus the #61 Stanton Barrett #62 Charles Shoffner 26. NASCARLover22 posted: 09.18.2015 - 2:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Quarterley's last Xfinity start to date. 27. Maverick11 posted: 04.27.2016 - 6:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only one of two races that the Eddie D'Hondt team runs the full distance and they almost win. 28. Mannoroth posted: 02.17.2017 - 2:42 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle Busch got together with Jeff Burton while battling for the lead. Both spun out, Kyle made a 360 spin and was able to take the lead. Kyle also did a 360 spin at Martinsville early in the season. 29. Nascarboy22 posted: 07.12.2018 - 5:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) so many cup guys 30. Bodyblower posted: 04.20.2020 - 11:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenny Hendricks subbed for Stan Barrett on Lap 9. 31. SpeedyThexton posted: 04.29.2020 - 1:34 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) The car Ambrose won this race in has been brought to Australia, still pretty much in the same condition as when it finished the race. Apparently it was just in storage somewhere in North Carolina for 10 years or so, until it was bought by Crusher Murray (same bloke who owned Matt Brabham's Indy 500 entry) and shipped over here 32. LS318 posted: 05.11.2020 - 6:58 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle Busch does a one-off in a sponsored MSRP Motorsports/Humphrey-D'Hondt car, one of only two times they didn't start and park, and comes home second. Whether that's impressive on Kyle's part or even-more-disgraceful on MSRP's side for parking competitive cars (they did have quite a few good qualifying times) is up for debate. 33. Foote posted: 05.11.2020 - 1:56 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle's p2 finish in this race was either one of two things: 1. The greatest performance in Nascar history in a start-and-park quality car, or 2. the MSRP car he drove was given a lot of additional resources to be more competitive because KB was in it. I guess both could be true actually. 34. TeamDCRfan posted: 05.11.2020 - 2:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) That car wasn't MSRP, it was Dhondt Racing. Eddie Dhondt and Bob Riley had owned a team that competed part time in 07, including a Cup race at Sonoma with Marc Goosens. Riley had left in 08, but DHondt still had some equipment, and likely tons of help from JGR, plus Zippo sponsorship. 35. LS318 posted: 05.11.2020 - 3:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) My best guess is that Joe Gibbs wanted to give Logano some road course experience, and they never planned on the 18 running any road course races, since it wasn't entered in Montreal or Mexico City either, but the race sponsor Zippo wanted Kyle Busch in the race, so they approached a backmarker team with a hefty check for them to build a Toyota body and have Kyle Busch run the full race with their logo on the car. 36. Backmarker posted: 05.11.2020 - 3:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @32 @33 I'm pretty certain Kyle's car was entirely prepared by JGR and they were simply using MSRP's owner points. 37. SpeedyThexton posted: 05.12.2020 - 6:58 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Actually there was nothing to do with MSRP at all. They didn't use 92 in Nationwide in 2008 (not sure they ever did at all iirc). The 92 that year was usually Brian Keselowski's car that season 38. Jason24 posted: 07.28.2020 - 1:07 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Buffalo Bills Tight End Kevin Everett served as the Grand Marshal for this race and gave the command to start engines. Everett suffered a devastating Spinal injury while playing for the Bills in September of 2007 which was called life-threatening and also believed to leave him permantly impaired. Everett made a miraculous and heroic recovery(he was walking on his own just 3 months later) that gave him a celebrity status within the sporting world and in the New York area. 39. RaceFanX posted: 11.06.2020 - 11:14 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) What a diverse battle of champions at the front of the field from across the motorsports spectrum. The top-8 finishers combined account (to date) for six NASCAR Cup championships, four NASCAR Busch/Xfinity championships, four IndyCar championships, two V8 Supercars championships, three USAC Midget championships, and a USAC Silver Crown championship in addition to four Daytona 500 wins and three Indy 500 wins. 40. Anonymous posted: 11.10.2020 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last laps lead by Jimmie Johnson in the Nationwide, now Xfinity series. 41. rm posted: 02.07.2021 - 10:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 5 crew chief - Cam Strader 55 crew chief - Johnathan Kaiser This was framed as Robby not wanting to hire a crew chief special just for one of the few Nationwide races he was planning to run, so he drafted in a friend of his (Kaiser) to sit atop the box and made the strategy calls himself from the driver's seat. (Not that Robby would listen to what any crew chief would tell him in the first place, right? Kaiser did talk Robby out of parking the car on lap 57, though, when the car began overheating severely) The most impressive result of the day would have to be Brad Coleman somehow managing to finish 10th after catching an absurd amount of air on the lap 16 restart that saw him do his very best to drive up and over Patrick Carpentier's car. Sure, it's not that unusual for drivers to briefly get all four tires off the ground here with an ill-timed curb hop, but to get the nose of the car a couple feet off the ground and continue - much less have enough speed to hang around the top 20 and break into the top 10 when fuel mileage set in at the end - is a completely separate accomplishment of its own. And while maybe not necessarily the most sportsmanlike way to make the pass, Kyle Busch sending himself and Jeff Burton on a synchronized spin while gunning for the lead, making a clean 360 yet still taking the spot, was fancy enough on its own. I also fail to see the need to wave the yellow in the final set of turns on the final lap for the beached car of Steven Wallace when he was out of the way and had been for a full lap already when they threw the flag, but alright... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: