Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

Hamlin wins Nationwide Dover 200

|
|
 
  
Published: May 31, 2008 at 9:13 PM

DOVER, Del., May 31 (UPI) -- Denny Hamlin led for 131 of 200 laps Saturday and won the rain-delayed Nationwide Series 200 race at the Dover International Speedway.

Hamlin finished 1.072 seconds ahead of Carl Edwards for his second victory of the season and the seventh of his Nationwide career.

Edwards won the pole, but Hamlin led the first 36 laps before Kyle Busch, the hottest driver in NASCAR, slid underneath Hamlin on lap 37 for the lead. With 20 laps to go, Hamlin held a one-second lead on Edwards -- who scraped the wall, but kept on going. It was still almost a second margin with 10 laps remaining.

David Stremme, David Reutimann and Greg Biffle completed the top-five. Joey Logano, in his first outing, finished sixth.

Clint Bowyer finished ninth and will take a 121-point lead over Busch to the next race, set for next Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway.

Topics: Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, David Reutimann, David Stremme, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Linsanity The Daytona 500 Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 32
Marilyn Monroe Cupcake Portrait at Madame Tussauds in New York
View Caption
A one-of-a-kind 8 x 4 foot portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 2,100 bite sized stuffed cupcakes stands in the lobby next to her wax figure on the eve of Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday at Madame Tussauds in New York City on May 31, 2012. UPI/John Angelillo
fark
Photoshop this side dish
When stripper poles are outlawed, only outlaws will have stripper poles
Canada's secret space program announces its first incredible success
"Lingerie model" spends $50k on tanning bed addiction after apparently getting kicked out of Willy...
From the man who bought you the ice cream made from breast milk, comes ice lolly made from holy...
John Edwards is guilty of being a douchebag. And banging ugly mistresses. And having great hair....