2008 L&H 500
Pos No Driver Team Laps Grid
1 15 Rick Kelly HSV Dealer Team 14 6
2 17 Steve Owen Dick Johnson Racing 14 5
3 25 Jason Bright Britek Motorsport 14 3
4 111 Fabian Coulthard Paul Cruickshank Racing 14 4
5 33 Lee Holdsworth Garry Rogers Motorsport 14 10
6 12 Cameron McConville Brad Jones Racing 14 15
7 14 Max Wilson Brad Jones Racing 14 14
8 55 Jason Bargwanna Rod Nash Racing 14 22
9 34 Greg Ritter Garry Rogers Motorsport 14 13
10 50 Andrew Thompson Paul Weel Racing 14 19
11 888 Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering 14 2
12 6 Mark Winterbottom Ford Performance Racing 14 1
13 4 David Besnard Stone Brothers Racing 14 18
14 39 Paul Morris Paul Morris Motorsport 14 14
15 1 Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team 14 7
16 9 Jonathon Webb Stone Brothers Racing 14 20
17 3 Greg Murphy Tasman Motorsport 14 17
18 18 Steven Johnson Dick Johnson Racing 14 8
19 7 Todd Kelly Perkins Engineering 14 25
20 16 Paul Dumbrell HSV Dealer Team 14 17
Results -- Driver A Race results
The 2008 L&H 500 was the ninth round of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of the 12 to 14 September at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria. It was the eighth Phillip Island 500 and the first to be staged since 1977. The L&H 500 saw the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit replace Sandown Raceway as the venue of the annual 500 kilometre two-driver V8 Supercar race. In an innovation for this round, two preliminary 14 lap races were held on Saturday with the two drivers of each car starting one race each. A single pitstop by each car in either race was mandated with the combined results of the two races determining the grid for the main 500 kilometre event. After a late race error in Sunday's race from Jamie Whincup, Garth Tander swept by to take the win. Co-driver Mark Skaife became the first driver to win the 500 kilometre co-driver endurance race at three different venues, having previously won the 2000 Ozemail Queensland 500 and the Sandown 500 in 1989 and 2003.