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RACE RECAP | HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY
10 Martin Truex Jr.
9 Tony Stewart in his final ride in the #20 car
8 Casey Mears
7 Travis Kvapil
6 Kasey Kahne
5 Clint Bowyer
4 Jeff Gordon was winless in 2008
3 Jamie McMurray with yet another top 5
2 Kevin Harvick also winless in 2008, came up 1 short

VICTORY LANE

1 Carl Edwards led the most laps and wins his 9th of the 2008 season, the most of any other driver.  Once again he needed to slow way down for a fuel mileage win with a 13 second lead on second place.  Even still, he came up short on the championship by 69 points.

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (November 15, 2008) — Carl Edwards won the battle, but Clint Bowyer won the war.

Edwards took the checkered flag in the Ford 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, depriving runner-up Kyle Busch of a record 11th victory in a single season.

But Edwards couldn’t put enough distance between his No. 60 Ford and the No. 2 Chevrolet of Clint Bowyer, who claimed his first NASCAR Nationwide championship with a fifth-place finish. Bowyer entered the race with a 56-point lead over Edwards and won the title by 21 points.

“We’ve raced each other for a long time,” Bowyer said of Edwards, who won the NASCAR Nationwide championship last year. “He’s from the Midwest (Columbia, Mo.). He’s last year’s champion, and it feels great to be able to beat him.”

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NATIONWIDE SERIES RECAP | HOMESTEAD-MIAMI

10 Joey Logano wins the Owners Championship for Joe Gibbs Racing
9 Kelly Bires
8 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
7 Denny Hamlin
6 Scott Wimmer
5 Clint Bowyer becomes the 2008 Nationwide Series Champion, doing it with 1 win, 14 top 5’s, and 29 top 10’s
4 Jason Leffler
3  Brad Keselowski
2 Kyle Busch came up just short at winning a series high 11 wins and remains tied with Sam Ard

VICTORY LANE

1 Carl Edwards grabs his 7th win in 2008 in the Nationwide Series, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the consistency of Clint Bowyer and loses the Championship by 21 points

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

AVONDALE, Ariz. (Nov. 8, 2008) — Carl Edwards got the win in Saturday’s Hefty Odor Block 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Phoenix International Raceway — and championship leader Clint Bowyer got the save.

Second in the standings, Edwards trimmed Bowyer’s lead from 91 points to 56, on a day that could have been much worse for the driver of the No. 2 Chevrolet.

Denny Hamlin, who came to the pits for new tires before a green-white-checkered-flag restart that took the event one lap past its scheduled distance of 200 laps, charged from fifth to second in the final two laps. Kevin Harvick finished third, followed by Bowyer, Kyle Busch and rookie Landon Cassill.

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Despite being nearly 200 points behind standings leader Jimmie Johnson (No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet) with four races left, Carl Edwards (No. 99 Office Depot Ford) never gave up hope of winning his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. He spent his time at the track telling anybody who would listen that the battle would come down to the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Now, two races later, Edwards has done his best to back up his word. He won the last two races in rather convincing fashion and has cut Johnson’s lead in half with two races remaining.

The deficit is now 106 points heading into Phoenix International Raceway. Edwards sat on the pole for this race last year and led the first 87 laps before engine trouble knocked him out of the race. Johnson won the race to all but lock up his second championship.

Edwards’ back-to-back wins increased his season total to eight, tying him with Kyle Busch (No. 18 Pedigree Toyota) for the series lead. Johnson is second with six victories.