|| *Comments on the 2008 Dodge Challenger 500:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> 1. DieselDan posted: 05.11.2008 - 11:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Broke the old 500 mile record at Darlington, previously held by the Jesus Christ of the South, Dale Earnhardt, set in April, 1993. 2. Woodbridge posted: 05.11.2008 - 12:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The breakout seasons for Travis Kvapil and David Ragan continue. Great run by my man Dave Blaney too, who was in the Top 15 for the whole race and Top 5 for a good bit, getting as high as 2nd. For the second race in a row (Denny Hamlin last week, Greg Biffle this week) the best car doesn't win. Also, Clint Bowyer's streak of consecutive Top Tens ends at seven, he was running 8th in the closing laps before smacking the wall and falling back. 3. Clayton posted: 05.11.2008 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) David Ragan moves into the chase for the first time in his career! This could be a very familer site, if his career keeps going like it's going!! This kid could be something special! 4. Brian R. posted: 05.11.2008 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) it was so great to see the number 6 back up near the front for most of the race...i agree with everybody that Ragan could be a force to reckon with in the future at this rate...also it was great to see Kvapil up there driving a car with the Fred Lorenzen commemorative paint scheme on the car...couple that with the Mountain Dew retro scheme on Jr's car and the 21 car of the Wood Brothers, and it was quite a night for retro style schemes 5. Baker posted: 05.11.2008 - 4:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I've been reading these comments and making a few myself since it was added to the site, and I have heard so much negative talk about David Ragan and Brian Vickers it was ridiculous. All the sudden, however, Ragan gets a top 5 and you're saying he is going to be something special just like that? Bandwagon jumping at it's finest. Just so it is known I've been fans of these 2 drivers from the start while members here were still dogging them. 6. smokefan posted: 05.11.2008 - 7:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Evil Shrub can't be stopped!LOL. 7. WallaceFan posted: 05.11.2008 - 7:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Very disapointing race in my opinion. The Busch race was amzing, this was mostly single file racing. Cars just kept hitting the wall, no more than a 2 car wreck though. Kyle Busch hit the wall about 4 times but it didnt effect him at all. Earlier in the race he said his car was "the most pathetic hes ever driven" . He needs to shut up. Anyways great tuns for David Ragan, Kvapil, Blaney, and McMurray. Tough break for Biffle who had the greatest car, but transmission problems. Overall about an average race. 8. Woodbridge posted: 05.11.2008 - 8:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Baker, I've been a fan of those two since they came up as well. I look forward to big things from them. 9. Dodge posted: 05.11.2008 - 9:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I am really surprised that Dave Blaney actually got a top 10. This guy is a below average driver for a team that should put all of their resources in the truck Series where they are competitive. This team has not been competitive in Cup since Ward Burton drove it. But then, that is the team that helped Toyota develop the truck while they were collecting money from Dodge. If they really wanted to run in trucks, why not just run Dodge back then. Now, the Davis's look bad because they were collecting from Dodge while they were probably getting paid to help develop the truck and car until somebody found out. 10. RaceFanX posted: 05.12.2008 - 12:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good night for a special paint job... Kyle Busch wins with a car designed to showcase the new mint M&M's and the new Indiana Jones movie Dale Earnhardt Jr had a great look based on Darrell Waltrip's title winning cars from 1981-82 and led 35 laps in route to a fourth Travis Kvapil ran for LaFayette Ford and his #28 Ford had a retro-Fred Lorenzen look. Running almost as good as the original and leading 2 laps, Kvapil brought the car home 8th. David Ragan, Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth also finish in the top 10 with slightly different than usual looks on their cars 11. Willy on Wheels posted: 05.12.2008 - 4:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great runs for Ragan, Kvapil, Blaney. Not too happy about Kyle Busch winning, though. If Biffle's engine didn't blow up, it would have been a close finish between the two, like the one with Kurt Busch and Ricky Craven back in 2003. Also, the rookies this year suck. Montoya and Ragan both had top 5s at this point and were both in the top 20 or 25 in points, while this year's rookies are awful. Best one is 33rd. 12. Dodge posted: 05.12.2008 - 5:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Besides Regan Smith, none of them have been to many of the tracks in a heavy car before so its going to take Hornish, Carpentier and Franchitti (when Franchitti get back from injury). Those three will have success I believe, Smith however, I don't think he will finish out the year in Cup, partly due to NO sponsor on the car and partly due to I don't see enough talent. 13. Mr. Big posted: 05.12.2008 - 6:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Disappointing race. The last 100 laps were terrible and they really need to take a look at the COT. A driver should not be able to hit the wall four or five times (pretty hard on all of those as well) and still win. Ridiculous. 14. haywood posted: 05.13.2008 - 12:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) how long have u been watching nascar if u don't think cars can bounce off the walls @ darlington and still win? go back and watch all the old races. i don't remember ever watching gordon cross the line without a few dozen marks on the sides. sometimes they hit the wall more than once. the only reason they hit it more often tonight is because the new surface has them going way too fast for the track's own good. the car is new and they're still working on how to get it turning correctly, as we've seen all year. at a track like this (narrow and extremely fast), spinning out is going to result in contact with the walls more often than say california or talladega with really wide corners. 15. Steve.M. posted: 05.13.2008 - 11:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DAMN that race in 1993 must have been really slow while under green because they had only 3 cautions for 14 laps while this race had 8 for 31 laps. This race only took about 1 minute longer to do and had an average speed nearly 10MPH faster WTH!!?!?! 16. Steve.M. posted: 05.13.2008 - 11:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) sorry only 1MPH faster but still that doesnt make sense a race that is 1 minute longer yet 1MPH faster WTF!?!?!? 17. Clayton posted: 06.10.2008 - 9:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hey Baker, Let me tell you something about David Ragan! I went to the Daytona 500 this season and bought this kids hat and shit!!! That race in 2007 at Richmond really showed me A LOT!! So next time you accuse someone of not rooting for David Ragan think again!! I am not a bandwagon jumper at all!! David Ragan is going to be a star! 18. Martin posted: 06.14.2008 - 1:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle rules all once again..... But Biffle had the best car this race, and should've won. 19. Anonymous posted: 04.02.2009 - 2:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Biffle should definitely have won this race, hard to believe he finished last. I remember him blasting his team during an interview, rightfully so. This has got to be the first weekend where both the Nationwide and Cup polesitters finished last. Edwards won the pole, scraped the wall, cut a tire and hit the wall after 3 laps on Saturday and on Sunday Biffle's engine expired. Also the name for this race is the Dodge Challenger 500, not Dodge Avenger 500. 20. Daniel posted: 05.22.2012 - 11:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #34 Jeff Green & #70 Johnny Sauter Out using fastest 43: #9 Kasey Kahne & #15 Paul Menard 21. CBASS posted: 01.27.2013 - 7:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #17 DeWalt Lithium Ion-NANO Technology #88 Mountain Dew #00 In Memory of Max Helton #7 Jim Beam/ Vote For Robby #28 Ford/ LaFayette Ford #99 Claritin Allergy Products #31 AT&T #41 Target/ Polaroid #96 DLP HDTV/ Carmike Cinemas #01 Dale Earnhardt Inc./ Principal #5 Kellogg's/ Carquest Auto Parts #78 Furniture Row/ Denver Mattress http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w0813 http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/photos/main-gallery/?s=5&y=2008&r=2870 22. bigjohnson posted: 05.11.2013 - 9:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If you do the math with the numbers provided, this race works out to 140.344mph. The race in 1993, won by Earnhart, works out to 140.892mph., almost a full mile per hor faster than what is listed and still beating this race by 0.5 mph. All I can say is something is wrong somewhere with these numbers. The distances are the same. You can't have a quicker race in hours, minutes and seconds and slower mph over the same distance.Looks like they might break the record tonight so this won't matter. 23. 83andJoe posted: 08.14.2013 - 2:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race name was Dodge Challenger 500. 24. Anonymous posted: 07.03.2015 - 11:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I can't believe how many times Kyle Busch hit the wall during the race 25. STATMAN posted: 09.07.2015 - 12:49 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) One of 36 Sprint Cup races where the polesitter finished last Also the second time it happened in 2008, one of 8 seasons where it happened more than once. Al Bonnell - 1949 Heidelberg Speedway - 0/200 - ? Dick Linder - 1950 Funk's Speedway - ?/200 - crash - led 3 laps Frank Mundy - 1951 Southern 500 - 12/400 - oil pressure Don Porter - 1956 Portland Speedway - 38/200 - axle Lee Petty - 1956 Raleigh Speedway - 9/250 - oil pressure Tiny Lund - 1957 Southern States Fairgrounds - 1/200 - gas line Bill Amick - 1957 Norfolk Speedway - 29/250 - distributor Johnny Allen - 1957 Coastal Speedway - 10/200 - fan Rex White - 1958 Monroe County Fairgrounds - 10/200 - overheating Tiny Lund - 1958 Gastonia Fairgrounds - 1/200 - a-frame Ken Rush - 1959 Wilson Speedway - 33/200 - clutch Emanuel Zervakis - 1960 Wilson Speedway - 200/200 - disqualified Buck Baker - 1960 Hickory - 68/250 - fuel pump Junior Johnson - 1961 (Jacksonville) Speedway Park - 4/200 - distributor Cotton Owens - 1962 Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds - 20/200 - engine Richard Petty - 1963 Savannah Speedway - 38/200 - crash - led 6 laps Joe Weatherly - 1963 Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds - 33/200 - engine - led 33 laps Junior Johnson - 1965 Southern 500 - 1/364 - ignition Curtis Turner - 1967 Daytona Qualifier #1** - 1/40 - quit David Pearson - 1968 (Birmingham) Fairgrounds Raceway - 159/160 - disqualified Buddy Baker - 1969 Daytona Qualifier #1** - 2/50 - quit - led 1 lap John Sears - 1970 North Carolina State Fairgrounds - 16/200 - engine - led 10 laps Cale Yarborough - 1980 Daytona 400 - 5/160 - engine - led 5 laps Buddy Baker - 1982 Darlington I - 3/367 - flywheel - led 1 lap Geoffrey Bodine - 1983 Atlanta I - 18/328 - valve - led 16 laps Cale Yarborough - 1983 Daytona 400 - 5/160 - engine - led 1 lap Geoffrey Bodine - 1986 Darlington I - 1/367 - camshaft Davey Allison - 1987 Rockingham II - 74/492 - gear - led 22 laps Geoffrey Bodine - 1997 Charlotte II - 100/334 - crash - led 1 lap Ward Burton - 1999 Michigan II - 52/200 - crash - led 1 lap Stacy Compton - 2001 Talladega I - 116/188 - engine - led 2 laps Ryan Newman - 2001 Charlotte 600 - 11/400 - crash - led 10 laps Todd Bodine - 2001 Pocono II - 128/200 - handling - led 2 laps Ryan Newman - 2008 Phoenix I - 134/312 - engine - led 37 laps Greg Biffle - 2008 Darlington 500 - 234/367 - engine - led 95 laps Denny Hamlin - 2010 Atlanta II - 143/325 - engine - led 74 laps 26. M posted: 03.07.2018 - 7:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling Marlin was back in the 40 for this race? 27. Anthony posted: 04.25.2018 - 2:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @26 it was due to the fact that Dario Franchitti had a huge struggle in his rookie season in NASCAR's top level. So they put Sterling Marlin in the car for the next 2 races. Also David Stremme was in the #40 for Talladega. 28. SK posted: 04.25.2018 - 2:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Franchitti was struggling, but he had broken his ankle in a Nationwide Series crash at Talladega - that's why he was out of the car for a few weeks. 29. Anthony posted: 06.25.2018 - 9:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @29 that's right that too. I forgot to mention that! 30. RaceFanX posted: 09.05.2018 - 9:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Busch's victory here was his first at Darlington and the first for Toyota at this track. The Camry's victory made it the first car to win the Southern 500 that wasn't a Big 3 product since Bobby Allison won in 1975 driving an AMC Matador. Looks like Kvapil and Earnhardt, Jr. were ahead of the curve with their throwback schemes. The Southern 500 became NASCAR's "throwback race" from 2015 onward. 31. Rich posted: 08.10.2020 - 12:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip were the commentators. Dr. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Krista Voda were the pit road reporters. And in the Hollywood hotel were Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: