8/5/08
Southern Iowa Speedway
Oskaloosa, IA
USAC
Ultimate Challenge
32 cars
Heat one (started): 1. Shane Cottle 4 (3, Weld Wheel) 2. Levi Jones 20 (4) 3. Kevin Swindell 1H (8) 4. Brady Short 36 (5) 5. Justin Zimmerman 7K (6) 6. Daron Clayton 92 (7) 7. Darren Hagen 10 (2) 8. Ryan Anderson 71R (1)
Heat two (started): 1. Cole Whitt 67K (2, Schoenfeld Headers) 2. Dave Darland 2B (5) 3. Brady Bacon 99 (8) 4. Gary Taylor 5* (3) 5. Bret Mellenberndt 97 (1) 6. Bill Rose 6 (7) 7. Thomas Meseraull 10T (6) 8. Travis Rilat 13 (4)
Heat three (started): 1. Damion Gardner 71 (2, Sander Wheel) 2. Hunter Schuerenberg 11 (4) 3. Chad Boat 30 (1) 4. Dustin Morgan 67 (6) 5. Jerry Coons Jr. 69 (7) 6. Tracy Hines 21 (8) 7. Casey Shuman 32 (3) 8. Brock Lemley 4L (5)
Heat four (started): 1. Jesse Hockett 75 (6, Hoosier Right Rear) 2. Brad Sweet 9 (7) 3. Charles Davis Jr. 21s (2) 4. Tim Kaeding 83JR (8) 5. Josh Ford 73 (4) 6. Don Droud Jr. 1x (5) 7. Chris Windom 17 (3) 8. Rob Chaney 24H (1)
Qualifier one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Coons Jr. (2*, Winters Rear-end) 2. Hockett (6*) 3. Whitt (5*) 4. Jones (4*) 5. Morgan (3*) 6. Ford (1) 7. Hagen (7) 8. Ry. Anderson (8)
Qualifier two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Clayton (1*, Winters Rear-end) 2. Darland (5*) 3. Schuerenberg (4*) 4. Sweet (6*) 5. Zimmerman (2) 6. Meseraull (7) 7. Davis Jr. (3) 8. Rilat (8)
Qualifier three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Rose (1*, Winters Rear-end) 2. Kaeding (4*) 3. Short (3*) 4. Cottle (6*) 5. Bacon (5*) 6. Shuman (7) 7. Mellenberndt (2) 8. Lemley (8)
Qualifier four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Swindell (6*, Winters Rear-end) 2. Hines (2*) 3. Gardner (5*) 4. Boat (4*) 5. Taylor (3) 6. Droud Jr. (1) 7. Windom (7) 8. Chaney (8)
B main (started): 1. Zimmerman (2) 2. Taylor (1) 3. Windom (10) 4. Droud Jr. (6) 5. Shuman (8) 6. Hagen (9) / 7. Davis Jr. (3) 8. Rilat (12) 9. Mellenberndt (5) 10. Lemley (11) 11. Ford (4) 12. Meseraull (7) 13. Chaney (13) DNS - Ry. Anderson
Ultimate Challenge (started): 1. Darland (3) 2. Swindell (2) 3. Coons Jr. (10) 4. Whitt (4) 5. Schuerenberg (9) 6. Cottle (8) 7. Taylor (20) 8. Kaeding (7) 9. Sweet (5) 10. Bacon (12) 11. Morgan (18) 12. Rose (14) 13. Hagen (24) 14. Windom (21) 15. Jones (11) 16. Clayton (13) 17. Short (15) 18. Droud Jr. (22) 19. Shuman (23) 20. Boat (17) 21. Hockett (1) 22. Hines (16) 23. Gardner (6) 24. Zimmerman (19)
Swindell shot off to the early lead in the 30-lapper. Darland moved by Hockett and Whitt early to second. On lap four, Hines stopped on the backstretch. Swindell led Darland, Whitt, Hockett who had a pass for third negated by the yellow, and Gardner. Darland powered by on the restart and a lap was complete before another caution, this time for debris. Darland led four more laps before Zimmerman flipped in three and four. He was unhurt. Now Darland led Swindell, Whitt, Gardner and Hockett. Darland separated himself from the field the next ten laps, while Gardner moved into third and was pressuring Swindell for second. On lap nineteen, the "Demon" crashed hard in turn four. He was uninjured. Darland now led Swindell, Whitt, Coons Jr. and Schuerenberg back to green flag racing. Coons Jr. found his way to third before the last slowdown occured on lap 25, when Boat, who had surged to fifth, tagged the turn one wall and flipped. He was unhurt. Swindell made a couple of late bids for the lead, but Darland held steady to pocket $30,000. The win was car owner Scott Benic's third triumph in the UC. Taylor buzzed forward 13 spots to win the Keith Hutton Hard-charger Award and a $1000 gift certificate to Brown and Miller Racing Solutions.