Jimmie Johnson won the Pole for Sunday's race, while the man closest to him, Carl Edwards starts fifth.

In a race delayed by rain for almost half an hour, then held up another twenty minutes due to a major accident, Johnson all but clinched the 2008 Sprint Cup Championship, his third in a row.

When the field came to the finish line to take the checkered flag, Matt Kenseth, knocked A. J. Allmendinger into Juan Pablo Montoya.

Viewers in the Eastern and Central Time Zones of the USA were forced to switch from ABC to ESPN2 to see the finish of the race on Lap 284 as the network broadcast America's Funniest Home Videos at 7:30 pm EST, while ABC continued the race to its conclusion (313 laps) in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones.

NASCAR Chairman Brian France was enraged by this decision: We didn't like [ABC's call], that was not what we had anticipated but we have talked to them [in the days following the race].