Fin Start Car Div Rookie Driver Name Hometown Sponsor Make/Model Laps Winnings Remarks
1 9 28 s Michael Ritch High Point, NC Support Our Troops Ford Fusion 205 $11,500 Running
2 8 29 s Trevor Bayne Knoxville, TN Chevy Racing/Optima Aluminum Trailers/ETI/Schaeffers Oil Chev Impala SS 205 $7,200 Running
3 6 12 s Carl Long Roxboro, NC Romeo Guest Construction Ford Fusion 205 $5,000 Running
4 7 81 s Mark McFarland Mooresville, NC Sears Auto Center/Knights Companies Chev Monte Carlo 205 $4,600 Running
5 5 51 s Clay Rogers Mooresville, NC Fire Protection Services/Killingworth Enviromental Chev Monte Carlo 205 $3,000 Running
6 1 96 s Wade Day Elizabethton,TN Lopez Wealth Management/Wil-wood/Race Pak/Simpson Ford Fusion 205 $5,200 Running
7 22 56 s Frank Deiny Jr Ashland, VA Tahoe Smokeless/Greased Lightning Chev Monte Carlo 205 $3,250 Running
8 19 52 s Kirk Leone Raleigh, NC Awesome Awnings Ford Fusion 205 $2,400 Running
9 18 82 s Billy Bigley Jr Naples, FL Peerless Woodworking/Fuel Pizza/Catch'It Cam/Town Square Ford Ford Fusion 205 $2,300 Running
10 16 23 s J P Morgan Ether, NC Phil Morgan Pottery Chev Impala SS 205 $2,200 Running
11 12 22 s R Drew Herring Benson, NC Blacks Tire & Auto Service/The Works/Hog Slat Inc Ford Fusion 205 $4,050 Running
12 24 O7 s R Matt Lofton Roxboro, NC Strutmasters.com Chev Impala SS 205 $2,500 Running
13 17 40 s Dusty Williams Guyton, GA Dustcom Ltd/Dixie Excavating Ford Fusion 205 $1,900 Running
14 2 O2 s Joey Coulter Miami Springs, FL Darrell Gwynn Foundation/Tempest Cycles Ford Fusion 205 $1,800 Running
15 23 9 s Tom Hessert Cherry Hill, NJ MAACO Americas Body Shop/Greased Lightning Chev Monte Carlo 205 $1,700 Running
16 11 O6 s Bobby Gill Concord, NC USG Sheetrock/Kimnach Ford/Tidewater Interior Products/Building Specialties Ford Fusion 205 $2,600 Running
17 14 55 s Woody Howard Chesapeake, VA Dean Motorsports/Schaeffers Oil Chev Impala SS 205 $2,000 Running
18 25 1 s Don Satterfield Spartanburg, SC Hawk Saw Blades/Ortec Racin Products/Harrisons Workwear Chev Monte Carlo 205 $1,600 Running
19 4 6 s R Hunter Robbins Montgomery, AL Goodson Consulting/APCO Transmissions Ford Fusion 204 $1,600 Running
20 3 84 s James Buescher Plano, TX Mercedes Homes/Wolf Pack Rentals Chev Monte Carlo 203 $1,600 Running
21 28 O4 s Larry Barrett Ringgold, VA Barretts Trucking & Excavating/ Jarrett Welding/Pit Stop Auto Sales/Mt Cross Welding Chev Impala SS 201 $1,400 Running
22 27 17 s Bryan Silas Stuart, FL Rockingham Speedway Ford Fusion 198 $2,200 Running
23 20 13 s John Gibson Statesville NC Spray Paint & Equipment/The Works Ford Fusion 196 $1,400 Running
24 21 21 s Lucas Ransone Madison, NC Ransone Racing/K-N Filters/KRG Utilities/Victory Performance Products Chev Monte Carlo 193 $1,400 Running
25 30 20 s Mark Whitaker Winston-Salem, NC Sirona In Lab Chev Monte Carlo 189 $1,400 Running
26 13 75 s Caleb Holman Abingdon, VA Food Country USA/Performance Automotive Chev Monte Carlo 176 $1,600 Mechanical
27 15 54 s Travis Kittleson Merritt Island Fl Bob Steele Chevrolet/C & C Boiler Sales & Service Chev Impala SS 147 $2,100 Accident
28 10 2 s Matt Hawkins Canton, GA Jani King/Racing Radios Ford Fusion 125 $1,600 Accident
29 26 81 n Travis Miller Chesapeake Va Pete Knight Racing Ford Fusion 4 $1,200 Mechanical
30 29 72 n R Mike Held Fountain Inn, SC Mike Held Racing Chev Monte Carlo 4 $1,200 Mechanical
R Rookie

* Awesome Awnings Pole Award- $1000- Wade Day- (16.008/112.444 MPH) New Track Record
* Lucas Oil Products 1/2 Way Leader-$1000-Wade Day
* Miller Lite Rookie of the Race -$1000- Drew Herring
* Aarons Do The Math Hard Charger -$500- Matt Lofton
* Greased Lightning Clean Team - $250 Drew Herring / $250 Frank Deiny Jr
* Number of caution flags-10 1 Red Flag- 29:38 Total laps under caution- 78
* iCard Time of Race- 2:11:08 Green Flag Average Speed- 108.588 MPH Margin of Win- .821 sec
* Lap Leaders- 1-56 Wade Day(144); 57-62 Clay Rogers(6); 63-150 Wade Day; 151-205 Michael Ritch(55)

By Paul Warner
Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:35:00 AM

Concord, N.C.-When rain halted the Racing Electronics 250 presented by BTS Tire&Wheel Distributors at Concord Motorsports Park, Michael Ritch was in the right place. But it may not have mattered.

Ritch marched through the pack after making an early stop and was out front when the rains put an end to the event on Lap 206.

"I was pretty upset with our strategy when we came in on Lap 60," said Ritch, driver of the No. 28s Racing For Veterans Ford. "But in the end, I think it was the right move. I think I could’ve held them off even if it went the distance."

Ritch’s win was his second in a row and puts him in the Greased Lightning Southern Division point lead.

While Ritch and most of the other leaders pitting in the first 75 laps, Wade Day kept his No. 96s Lopez Wealth Management Ford out front for the majority of the first half of the event.

Day, who started from the Awesome Awnings Pole, led all but seven of the first 150 circuits. But Day’s gamble that the rain would come earlier didn’t pay off before he pitted on Lap 151.

"We probably would’ve pitted 40 laps earlier had the rain not been all around us," said Day, who made it back to sixth at the finish. "I could see the lightning while I was going down the backstretch and it was all around us, but it didn’t rain when I needed it."

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 29s Chevy Racing Chevrolet, was on the same pit strategy as Michael Ritch and made it back to second at the finish.

Carl Long, driver of the No. 12s Romeo Guest Construction Ford, gambled that the rain would hit before the conclusion of the event and picked up a third-place finish by not coming in for fuel.

Clay Rogers, driver of the No. 51s Fire Protection Services/Killingworth Environmental Chevrolet, rounded out the top five in his first start of the season. Rogers also led seven laps in his first Pro Cup race in nearly a year.

Frank Deiny, Kirk Leone, Billy Bigley and J.P. Morgan completed the top 10.