The 2008 Peak Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma County was the fifteenth round of the 2008 IndyCar Series season. It took place on August 24, 2008 at Sonoma Raceway.
A transporter carrying the Team Penske cars of Hélio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe caught fire on the Wednesday before the race, destroying both cars. Racing in a backup car, Castroneves won the race from pole position, snapping a 29-race winless streak after finishing runner-up seven times in the 2008 season prior to Sonoma. The gap in the standings between Castroneves and points leader Scott Dixon closed by 35 points after Dixon finished 12th in the race.
Race Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Laps Led Points 13 Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 80 1:50:15.8282 1 51 50+3 26 Ryan Briscoe Team Penske 80 +5.2926 2 19 40 311 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 80 +16.6032 4 1 35 410 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 80 +17.7720 16 0 32 57 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 80 +25.8458 9 0 30 633 E. J. Viso (R) HVM Racing 80 +29.3472 14 9 28 74 Vítor Meira Panther Racing 80 +29.9895 18 0 26 806 Graham Rahal (R) Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing 80 +40.4577 15 0 24 902 Justin Wilson (R) Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing 80 +42.0357 7 0 22 1019 Mario Moraes (R) Dale Coyne Racing 80 +50.0106 12 0 20 1115 Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 80 +55.0361 22 0 19 129 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 80 +55.7145 5 0 18 1327 Hideki Mutoh (R) Andretti Green Racing 80 +56.3186 20 0 17 1426 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 80 +57.5400 10 0 16 155 Oriol Servià KV Racing Technology 80 +58.3690 6 0 15 1696 Mario Domínguez (R) Pacific Coast Motorsports 80 +1:00.7387 11 0 14 1718 Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing 80 +1:00.9454 13 0 13 1817 Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman Racing 80 +1:00.9466 8 0 12 1923 Townsend Bell Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 79 +1 Lap 19 0 12 202 A. J. Foyt IV Vision Racing 79 +1 Lap 24 0 12 2136 Enrique Bernoldi (R) Conquest Racing 79 +1 Lap 27 0 12 2214 Darren Manning A. J. Foyt Racing 79 +1 Lap 21 0 12 2320 Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 78 +2 Laps 23 0 12 2434 Jaime Camara (R) Conquest Racing 78 +2 Laps 26 0 12 258 Will Power (R) KV Racing Technology 77 +3 Laps 3 0 10 2625 Marty Roth Roth Racing 76 +4 Laps 25 0 10 2712 Tomas Scheckter Luczo Dragon Racing 56 Mechanical 17 0 10 Sources:
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