2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200
| Race details | |||
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| Race 23 of 35 in the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series season | |||
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
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| Date | August 2, 2008 | ||
| Location | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.709 mi (4.361 km) |
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| Distance | 74 laps, 200.466 mi (322.618 km) | ||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures up to 26.6 °C (79.9 °F); wind speeds reaching a sustained high of 4.9 kilometres per hour (3.0 mph) | ||
| Average speed | 50.149 mph (80.707 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 60,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Chip Ganassi Racing | ||
| Time | 102.569 sec | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Marcos Ambrose | JTG Daugherty Racing | |
| Laps | 27 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 5 | Ron Fellows | JR Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN2 | ||
| Announcers | Marty Reid, Rusty Wallace, Randy LaJoie | ||
The 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge, the third running of the event, was a NASCAR Nationwide Series race held on August 2, 2008, at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec. The race was the 23rd of the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series season.
The pole position was won by Scott Pruett of Chip Ganassi Racing, while the race was won by JR Motorsports' Ron Fellows. The race was the first points race in NASCAR history to be run with grooved rain tires.
The race was the second running of the NAPA Auto Parts 200, with Kevin Harvick winning the inaugural event in 2007. The track, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, was one of two international tracks on the 2008 Nationwide schedule, along with Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.
Various road course ringers ran in the race, including Patrick Carpentier, Ron Fellows, Max Papis, Scott Pruett, Boris Said, and Scott Gaylord.
Scott Pruett of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing won the pole position with a lap time of 102.569 seconds and a speed of 95.082 miles per hour (153.020 km/h). Max Papis started second with a lap speed of 94.834 mph (152.621 km/h), followed by Marcos Ambrose, Patrick Carpentier, Jacques Villeneuve. The remaining top ten comprised Ron Fellows, Boris Said, Steve Wallace, Brad Coleman and Joey Logano. The lone driver to not qualify for the race was Kevin O'Connell.
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