ryan briscoe,winner of the 2008 nikon INDY 300 waves to the crowd on the parade around the surfers paradise track
The Nikon Indy 300 is an open-wheel motor race event that takes place each year on a street circuit at Surfers Paradise, an eastern beach-side suburb of Gold Coast city in south east Queensland, Australia. Known generically as the Gold Coast Indy 300, Japanese camera giant Nikon was announced as new naming rights sponsor in early August, 2008 .Ryan Briscoe signed to drive for Penske's Indy Car team as a race driver for the 2008 Indy Car Series season, replacing the former driver Sam Hornish Jr., who is racing full time in Penske's NASCAR team in 2008. Briscoe knocked himself out of the Indianapolis 500 along with Danica Patrick when Briscoe came out of the pits and ran into Patrick tearing up her suspension and tearing the front end of Briscoe's car.[2] Briscoe earned his first career win at Milwaukee the week after Indy. Holding off Scott Dixon and avoiding a late crash involving Marco Andretti, Ed Carpenter, and Vitor Meira. He followed up his first career win with a victory, shortly after the halfway point of the season, at the Honda 200 on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Briscoe also became the first Australian to claim victory at the Surfers Paradise Indy event on October 26th 2008 after countrymen and favourite Will Power crashed out early in the race. [edit]
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