2008 City of Ipswich 400

V8 Supercar race report
Date = 18 - 20 July
Year = 2008
Race_No = 7
Season_No = 14
Location = Ipswich, Queensland
Course_name = Queensland Raceway
Course_km = 3.1
Distance_laps = 114 (3 x 38 lap races)
Distance_km = 360
Weather = fine
Pole_Driver = James Courtney
Pole_Team = Stone Brothers Racing
Pole_Time = 1:10.7351
First_Race1 = James Courtney
First_Race1_time = 46:30.0751
First_Team_Race1 = Stone Brothers Racing
Second_Race1 = Mark Winterbottom
Second_Race1_time = 46:30.3174
Second_Team_Race1 = Ford Performance Racing
Third_Race1 = Russell Ingall
Third_Race1_time = 46:31.4827
Third_Team_Race1 = Supercheap Auto Racing
First_Race2 = Mark Winterbottom
First_Race2_time = 50:13.9041
First_Team_Race2 = Ford Performance Racing
Second_Race2 = Russell Ingall
Second_Race2_time = 50:16.1296
Second_Team_Race2 = Supercheap Auto Racing
Third_Race2 = Jamie Whincup
Third_Race2_time = 50:21.8442
Third_Team_Race2 = Team Vodafone
First_Race3 = Mark Winterbottom
First_Race3_time = 46:35.8306
First_Team_Race3 = Ford Performance Racing
Second_Race3 = James Courtney
Second_Race3_time = 46:41.3477
Second_Team_Race3 = Stone Brothers Racing
Third_Race3 = Russell Ingall
Third_Race3_time = 46:45.6115
Third_Team_Race3 = Supercheap Auto Racing
First_Driver = Mark Winterbottom
First_Team = Ford Performance Racing
Second_Driver = Russell Ingall
Second_Team = Supercheap Auto Racing
Third_Driver = James Courtney
Third_Team = Stone Brothers Racing|

The 2008 City of Ipswich 400 is the seventh round of the 2008 V8 Supercar season. It will be held on the weekend of July 18 to 20 at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland.

Practice

Practice featured another opportunity for teams to test endurance co-drivers with Steve Owen ending up the fastest of those drivers in the Jim Beam Racing Faclon, second only in the session to Russell Ingall. Warren Luff was fifth fastest in the second Jim Beam Falcon just ahead of Paul Radisich in the HSV Dealer Team Commodore. Next were Craig Baird (Holden Racing Team) and David Besnard (Stone Brothers Racing). Other co-drivers in the session were Dean Canto (Ford Performance Racing), Glenn Seton (Holden Racing Team), Jason Bargwanna (Rod Nash Racing), Grant Denyer (Ford Rising Stars Racing), Luke Youlden (Ford Performance Racing), Mark Noske (Tasman Motorsport), Jack Perkins (Jack Daniel's Racing), Adam Macrow driving the Team Kiwi Racing Falcon instead of for his enduro team Britek Motorsport, Brad Jones (Brad Jones Racing) and David Reynolds (HSV Dealer Team).

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Saturday July 19.

Race 1

Race 1 was held on Saturday July 19.

Race 2

Race 2 was held on Sunday July 20.

Race 3

Race 3 was held on Sunday July 20.

Results

Results as follows: [cite web | url=http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?20/07/2008.QRI | title=Queensland Raceway Ipswich 20/07/2008 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series - Round 7 | publisher=National Software | date=July 19 2008 | accessdate=2008-08-02]

Qualifying

Race 3 Results

References

External links

* [http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?20/07/2008.QR1 Official timing and results]

V8 race report
Name_of_race = 2008 City of Ipswich 400
Year_of_race = 2008
Previous_race_in_season = 2008 Skycity Triple Crown
Next_race_in_season = 2008 Winton round of the V8 Supercar Championship
Previous_year's_race = 2007 Queensland round of the V8 Supercar Championship
Next_year's_race = 2009 City of Ipswich 400