Round 5 of 14 in the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series
Date
7–9 June 2008
Location
Melbourne, Victoria
Venue
Sandown International Raceway
Weather
Fine
Results
Race 1
Distance
39 laps
120 km
Pole position
Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering
1:09.6987
Winner
Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering
47:18.7876
Race 2
Distance
39 laps
120 km
Winner
Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering
56:19.9593
Race 3
Distance
39 laps
120 km
Winner
Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering
47:20.7150
Round Results
First
Jamie Whincup
Triple Eight Race Engineering
286 pts
Second
Mark Winterbottom
Ford Performance Racing
252 pts
Third
James Courtney
Stone Brothers Racing
234 pts
The 2008 Midas 400 was the fifth round of the 2008 V8 Supercar season. It was held on the weekend of 7 to 9 June Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria. With most states of Australia celebrating a public holiday on the Monday celebrating the Queen's birthday, the meeting took the unusual format of Saturday-Monday instead of Friday-Sunday.
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Pukekohe Park, which was followed by poles at the Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000 and at the Desert 400. These four poles allowed him to claim the 2007 V8...
The 1984 Sandown 1000 was an endurance motor race staged at the Sandown Raceway in Victoria, Australia on 2 December 1984. It was the eleventh and final...
kilometres (78 and 155 mi) in length, and two-driver endurance races held at Sandown and Bathurst. The series is broadcast in 137 countries and has an average...
HRT only competed at the Sandown, Lakeside and Eastern Creek rounds. Two 1993 spec VP Commodores were raced at the Sandown 500 with Mezera and Brad Jones...
kilometres to 200 kilometres. Proposed changes to the Melbourne 400 and a relocated Sandown 500 to The Bend Motorsport Park did not take place as the events...
five race wins; two each at Queensland Raceway and Winton, and one at Sandown. He won the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series, ahead of 2009 V8 Supercar...
Park, taking a near lights-to-flag win in Race 22. On 16 September, at Sandown, van Gisbergen finished 2nd alongside Earl Bamber. Van Gisbergen controversially...
a driver is said to have achieved the "Triple Crown" if they win the Sandown 500, the Bathurst 1000 and the Supercars Championship (formerly the Australian...
The 2009 Norton 360 Sandown Challenge was the seventh race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Races 13 and 14 of the series...
to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Melbourne 400 and Perth SuperNight reverted to a SuperSprint format. The Sandown 500 will return to the calendar for the...
Series and made his Supercars Championship debut at the 2012 Dick Smith Sandown 500 as a co-driver to Jonathon Webb at Tekno Autosports. Having made a...
his career. He is still one of the few drivers to win his first race, Sandown 500 in 1993. He started eleven races for one victory. Brabham took two...
the sport's fanbase. Steffensen made his first step into motor racing at Sandown in 2017 driving a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge...
Used for the Bathurst 1000. Sandown: Used for the Sandown 500. Melbourne (long): Used for Race 1 and 3 of the Melbourne 400. Melbourne (short): Used for...
his stand out results being 4th overall for the Round at Barbagallo and Sandown. He ended the year 11th in the Championship. In November 2004 it was announced...
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Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship...
driving the Group A Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R. He failed to finish both the Sandown 500 (diff failure when Skaife was leading on lap 94 of 129) and Bathurst...
has claimed nine 500 kilometre V8 Supercar/ATCC endurance titles (six Sandown 500 victories, two Phillip Island 500 crowns and one Queensland 500 win)...
young Gertrude Chataway, whom Carroll met in the English seaside town Sandown on the Isle of Wight in 1875. Included with many copies of the first edition...
Coast round, followed by Bahraini driver Fahad Al Musalam for the Desert 400 and 23-year-old Daniel Gaunt for the final two rounds of the season. Shane...
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