2008 Indy Japan 300

Race 3 of 18

Motegi
200 laps
Time of race: 1:51:02.6739
Average speed of winner: 164.258 mph
Margin of victory: 5.8594 sec.
Lead changes: 4 among 4 drivers
Cautions: 4 for 29 laps
Fastest lap: Hélio Castroneves 197.920
Lap leaders: Castroneves 1-93, Dixon 94-194, Wheldon 195-196, Castroneves 197, Patrick 198-200

Race notes: Only win for Danica Patrick.

Finish	Start	Driver	Car #	Sponsor	Chassis	Engine	Tire	Owner	Qualifying Speed	Laps	X Led	Laps Led	Status	Money	Points
1	6	Danica Patrick	7	Motorola	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Andretti Green		200	1	3	running	35000	50
2	1	Hélio Castroneves	3	Team Penske	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Penske		200	2	94	running	25000	40
3	2	Scott Dixon	9	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Ganassi		200	1	101	running	20000	38
4	5	Dan Wheldon	10	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Ganassi		200	1	2	running	15000	32
5	3	Tony Kanaan	11	Team 7-Eleven	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Andretti Green		200	0	0	running	10000	30
6	7	Ed Carpenter	20	Menards/Vision Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Vision		200	0	0	running	0	28
7	10	Ryan Hunter-Reay	17	Rahal Letterman Racing Team Ethanol	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Rahal		200	0	0	running	0	26
8	12	Darren Manning	14	ABC Supply Co./AJ Foyt Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Foyt		199	0	0	running	0	24
9	15	Ryan Briscoe	6	Team Penske	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Penske		199	0	0	running	0	22
10	16	Townsend Bell	23	Dreyer and Reinbold William Rast	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Dreyer and Reinbold		199	0	0	running	0	20
11	9	Hideki Mutoh	27	Formula Dream	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Andretti Green		199	0	0	running	0	19
12	11	Buddy Rice	15	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Dreyer and Reinbold		198	0	0	running	0	18
13	14	Jay Howard	24	Roth Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Roth		192	0	0	running	0	17
14	18	Roger Yasukawa	77	Interush/Wellman Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	CURB/Agajanian/Beck		134	0	0	running	0	16
15	8	A.J. Foyt IV	2	Vision Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Vision		103	0	0	contact	0	15
16	13	Vitor Meira	4	Delphi National Guard	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Panther		92	0	0	contact	0	14
17	17	Marty Roth	25	Cirrus-Roth Racing	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Roth		44	0	0	contact	0	13
18	4	Marco Andretti	26	Alpine	Dallara	Honda	Firestone	Andretti Green		0	0	0	contact	0	12

Points standings

Rank	Driver	Points	Starts	Poles	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s
1	Hélio Castroneves	112	3	0	0	3	3
2	Scott Dixon	100	3	1	1	2	2
3	Danica Patrick	98	3	0	1	1	3
4	Tony Kanaan	89	3	1	0	2	3
5	Dan Wheldon	85	3	0	0	2	2
6	Ed Carpenter	70	3	0	0	1	2
7	Marco Andretti	65	3	0	0	1	1
8	Ryan Hunter-Reay	65	3	0	0	0	2
9	Hideki Mutoh	59	3	0	0	0	1
10	Darren Manning	58	3	0	0	0	1
11	A.J. Foyt IV	56	3	0	0	0	1
12	Graham Rahal	53	1	0	1	1	1
13	Buddy Rice	52	3	0	0	0	0
14	Ryan Briscoe	46	3	0	0	0	1
15	Vitor Meira	46	3	0	0	0	1
16	E.J. Viso	45	2	0	0	1	1
17	Jay Howard	45	3	0	0	0	0
18	Oriol Servià	44	2	0	0	0	1
19	Enrique Bernoldi	42	2	0	0	1	1
20	Justin Wilson	37	2	0	0	0	1
21	Will Power	34	2	0	0	0	1
22	Townsend Bell	32	2	0	0	0	1
23	Marty Roth	30	3	0	0	0	0
24	Franck Perera	28	2	0	0	0	0
25	Mario Moraes	28	2	0	0	0	0