The thirteenth round of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was unlucky for just about everybody save for Kyle Busch, who took the Best Buy 400 by the scruff of the neck just prior to the half way mark and proceeded to lead the majority of the final 200 laps.
With the bumpy and slick concrete surface of the one mile Dover International Speedway magnifying the difference in performance between those who nailed the correct set-up and those who just missed it Sunday's 400-lap race could hardly be described as a classic despite an early race multi-car wreck that involved no less than six of the drivers who came into the day among the top 12 in points.
While the lap 19 crash that involved, among others, Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne, certainly shook the running order up in the middle of the pack it had little effect on those who started at the front and such was the dominance of Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and finally Busch that it was hard to see any of the above mentioned contenders challenging for the win in any case.
In front of a large but nowhere near sold out Delaware crowd it was polesitter Biffle who took off like the proverbial scalded cat, opening up a two second lead inside ten laps before, on lap 17, David Gilliland tapped Elliott Sadler into a spin coming off turn two. Sadler hit the outside wall and bounced back directly onto the racing line in front of a large pack of traffic. First to pile in was Stewart who punted Sadler's car back to the outside where he was hit by the rapidly approaching Hamlin and Scott Riggs. No sooner had Hamlin and Riggs made contact Earnhardt Jr, Bobby Labonte, Bill Elliott, Kahne and Bowyer joined the fun with Paul Menard and David Ragan somehow threading their way through without sustaining any meaningful damage.