The 2008 Goody's Cool Orange 500 was the sixth race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, and was run on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. This race aired on

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starting at 1:30 PM US EDT and radio was handled by Motor Racing Network and Sirius Satellite Radio starting their programming at 1:15 PM US EDT. The race marked the start of the use of the 2008 Top 35 owners points exemption for each week's race for the 2008 season. This was the first points paying race without

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since the 1990 TranSouth 500.

Pre-Race News

*As announced, Michael McDowell will debut as the new driver of the #00

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Toyota Camry for David Reutimann, who moves to the team's #44 car for

. Jarrett would drive the #44 one last time at the Sprint All-Star Race XXIV on May 17 in

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. All three MWR teams are safely in the weekly Top 35 Owners Points exemption for this race. * Bill Davis Racing's #27 team suspended operations due to a lack of sponsorship. * BAM Racing has switched from

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as of this week.

Qualifying

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won the pole for this race, the 65th in his career. Kyle Petty, who was outside the Top 35 exemption rule, failed to qualify for a race for the first time since the

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season.

Full qualifying results

OP: qualified via owners points PC: qualified as past champion PR: provisional QR: via qualifying race * - had to qualify on time

Results

Failed to qualify: Kyle Petty (#45), Tony Raines (#08), John Andretti (#34), Joe Nemechek (#78).

References

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Goody's Cool Orange 500 The Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 is an annual 400-lap NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at the Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. It had no name from 1950 to 1955, before taking the name Virginia 500 in 1956. It is the first o ...

NASCAR races at Martinsville Speedway March 2008 sports events in the United States