Fin Start Car Div Rookie Driver Name Hometown Sponsor Make/Model Laps Winnings Remarks
1 12 28 s Michael Ritch High Point, NC Support Our Troops Ford Fusion 250 $11,500 Running
2 20 O6 s Bobby Gill Concord, NC USG Sheetrock/Kimnach Ford/Building Specialties Ford Fusion 250 $7,500 Running
3 4 29 s Trevor Bayne Knoxville, TN Chevy Racing/Schaeffers Oil/ Chev Monte Carlo 250 $7,200 Running
4 11 40 s Dusty Williams Guyton, GA Dustcom Ltd/Dixie Excavating Ford Fusion 250 $4,000 Running
5 2 55 s Woody Howard Chesapeake, VA Dean Motorsports/Schaeffers Oil Chev Monte Carlo 250 $3,400 Running
6 13 54 s Travis Kittleson Merritt Island Fl Bob Steele Chevrolet/C & C Boiler Sales & Service Chev Impala SS 250 $3,700 Running
7 7 2 s Matt Hawkins Canton, GA Jani King/Racing Radios Ford Fusion 250 $3,000 Running
8 3 96 s Wade Day Elizabethton,TN Lopez Wealth Management/Wil-wood/Race Pak/Simpson Ford Fusion 250 $2,800 Running
9 21 84 s James Buescher Plano, TX Mercedes Homes/Wolf Pack Rentals Chev Monte Carlo 250 $2,300 Running
10 22 82 s Billy Bigley Jr Naples, FL Peerless Woodworking/Fuel Pizza/Catch'It Cam/Town Square Ford Ford Fusion 250 $2,200 Running
11 16 13 s John Gibson Statesville NC Spray Paint & Equipment/The Works Ford Fusion 250 $2,350 Running
12 8 22 s R Drew Herring Benson, NC Blacks Tire & Auto Service/The Works Ford Taurus 250 $3,950 Running
13 6 23 s J P Morgan Ether, NC Phil Morgan Pottery Chev Monte Carlo 250 $1,900 Running
14 5 52 s Kirk Leone Raleigh, NC Awesome Awnings Ford Fusion 250 $1,800 Running
15 17 9 s Tom Hessert Cherry Hill, NJ MAACO Americas Body Shop/Greased Lightning Chev Monte Carlo 249 $1,700 Running
16 9 12 s Carl Long Roxboro, NC Romeo Guest Construction Ford Fusion 248 $1,600 Running
17 26 O4 s Larry Barrett Ringgold, VA Barretts Trucking & Excavating/ Jarrett Welding/Pit Stop Auto Sales/Mt Cross Welding Chev Impala SS 245 $1,600 Running
18 1 81 s Mark McFarland Mooresville, NC Sears Auto Center/Knights Companies Chev Monte Carlo 244 $3,200 Running
19 27 1 s Don Satterfield Spartanburg, SC Hawk Saw Blades/Ortec Racin Products/Harrisons Workwear Chev Monte Carlo 243 $1,600 Mechanical
20 28 6 s R Hunter Robbins Montgomery, AL Goodson Consulting/APCO Transmissions Ford Fusion 218 $1,600 Running
21 19 O7 s R Matt Lofton Roxboro, NC Strutmasters.com Chev Monte Carlo 200 $1,400 Running
22 18 O9 s R John Townley Athens, GA Zaxbys/BT&T/Coca Cola Ford Fusion 183 $1,400 Accident
23 15 27 s R Scotty Crockett Land O Lakes, FL DEX Imaging/Makes & Models Magazine/K & N Engineering Ford Fusion 181 $1,400 Running
24 10 75 s Caleb Holman Abingdon, VA Food Country USA/Performance Automotive Chev Monte Carlo 162 $1,800 Running
25 25 OO s R Michael Phelps Swannee, GA Bowen Family Homes Chev Monte Carlo 115 $1,400 Mechanical
26 24 17 s Bryan Silas Stuart, FL Rockingham Speedway Ford Fusion 104 $2,000 Accident
27 23 O2 s Joey Coulter Miami Springs, FL Darrell Gwynn Foundation/Tempest Cycles Ford Fusion 95 $1,200 Accident
28 14 56 s Frank Deiny Jr Ashland, VA Tahoe Smokeless/Greased Lightning Chev Monte Carlo 94 $1,600 Mechanical
R Rookie

* Awesome Awnings Pole Award- $1000- Mark McFarland- (18.488/97.360 MPH)
* Lucas Oil Products 1/2 Way Leader-$1000-Trevor Bayne
* Miller Lite Rookie of the Race -$1000- Drew Herring
* Aarons Do The Math Hard Charger -$500- Bobby Gill
* Greased Lightning Clean Team - $250 Drew Herring / $250 John Gibson
* Number of caution flags-14 2 Red Flag- 18:23 Total laps under caution- 86
* iCard Time of Race- 2:42:35 Green Flag Average Speed- 93.199 MPH Margin of Win- 1.913 sec
* Lap Leaders- 1-70 Mark McFarland(70); 71-145 Trevor Bayne(75); 146-250 Michael Ritch(105)

Michael Ritch Wins BFGoodrichTires.com 250

By Paul Warner
Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:43:00 PM

Cecil, Ga.-Michael Ritch took the lead from Trevor Bayne on Lap 141 and held off a slew of contenders to win the BFGoodrichTires.com 250 presented by K&N Filters at South Georgia Motorsports Park on Saturday, March 29.

"We’ve always been pretty horrible here," said Ritch, who started 12th. "But, man, when the green flag dropped that thing took off. We already had a game plan [to pit early]; we stuck to it, but we really didn’t need to pit early because the car was so good."

Ritch, driver of the No. 28s Support Our Troops Ford, pitted on Lap 6 to make his mandatory tire stop. But the defending Greased Lightning Southern Division champion didn’t wait for everyone else to pit to start his charge back to the front.

Ritch knifed his way back to the front and caught Bayne for the lead just after the halfway mark. The two waged a fierce battle for the lead before Ritch eventually inched past.

"I was kind of sitting back there taking it easy," said Ritch. "But my spotter told me [Wade Day] was coming, so I had to go."

Day wasn’t the only one closing as Bayne and Ritch battled. Mark McFarland and Drew Herring made it a five-car fight for the lead. After Ritch made it past Bayne, Day and McFarland followed him through.

A slew of late-race restarts made it interesting for Ritch, but lucky for him most of close calls were behind him. Herring, driver of the No. 22s Black’s Tire&Auto Service Ford, and Day bumped for second. The contact sent Day up the track and he eventually spun in the marbles. Day finished eighth.

Herring and McFarland, driver of the No. 81s Sears Auto Center Chevrolet, would tangle for second laps later. The contact would cost both drivers a shot at the win as they both spun in Turn 2. McFarland slipped to 19th after the contact.

Bobby Gill, driver of the No. 06s USG Sheetrock Ford, took advantage of the late-race carnage at the front and came home second.

"We didn’t have a second-place car, but we’ll take it," said Gill. "We’re still a little off with this new car. We haven’t tested like these other guys, but we’re going to test at Concord."

Bayne, driver of the No. 29s Chevy Racing Chevrolet, used the opposite pit strategy of Ritch, waiting until Lap 168 to take on his BFGoodrich Tires g-Force radials. But with 15 cars on the lead lap, Bayne was only able to make it back to third at the finish.

"We had some long runs at the beginning of the race and we figured it would keep going that way," said Bayne, who restarted 13th with 75 laps to go. "But that weekend-warrior racing at the end caused lot of cautions at the end. It was fun driving back up there, but it was also getting on my nerves when I got under people and they’d chop me off."

Dusty Williams, driver of the No. 40s Dustcom LTD Ford, wasn’t one of the drivers that were frustrated at the end of the night. The Georgia native posted his career-best finish by coming home fourth.

Woody Howard, driver of the No. 55s Dean Motorsports Chevrolet, rebounded from an early-race spin to round out the top five.

After the incident with McFarland, Herring rallied to finish 12th and take home Miller Lite Rookie of the Race honors.