2008 LifeLock 400

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2008 Lifelock 400
Race details
Race 15 of 36 in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season
View of Michigan International Speedway; circa 2008
Date	June 15, 2008 (2008-June-15)
Location	Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.0 mi (3.218 km)
Distance	203 laps, 406 mi (653.393 km)
Scheduled Distance	200 laps, 400 mi (643.737 km)
Weather	Temperatures up to 81 °F (27 °C); wind speeds reaching 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)^[1]
Average speed	145.375 miles per hour (233.958 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing
Time	2008 Owner's Points
Most laps led
Driver	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	65
Winner
No. 88	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	TNT
Announcers	Bill Weber, Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach, Jr.

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 LifeLock 400 was the fifthteenth points race in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule. Held on Sunday, June 15 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, it was the first of two races sponsored by the internet protection service LifeLock, the other being the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on July 12.

Eleven cars set times before rain set in and cancelled qualifying, so the field was set by the rule book with points leader Kyle Busch on pole, Jeff Burton second and Dale Earnhardt Jr third. Jason Leffler (#70) and Tony Raines (#34) did not start because qualifying was cancelled due to rain. Kenny Wallace and the #87 Denver Mattress car, and the #08 car, without a driver, were both withdrawn earlier in the week.

Race Recap

In a mixture of luck, fuel economy and strategy, Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first win in 76 points races thanks to a late caution due to Sam Hornish, Jr.'s late-race crash, and a green-white-checker finish with Patrick Carpentier and Michael Waltrip crashing near the start/finish line to end the race. Instead of completing a victory lap, or doing the traditional burnout, Earnhardt coasted on to pit road after he had run out of fuel.

References

↑ Weather information for the 2008 Lifelock 400 at The Old Farmers' Almanac

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