Overnight more rain left massive pools of water on the track for Sundays start to the Tattersall's Finke Desert Race. Creating huge splashes as the leading buggies raced away from the Alice Springs start line on the 221km race to Finke. The track conditions improved as they progressed south, with the damp desert sands playing into Fellows hands as he was able to apply all of the 700+ horsepower jammed into the back of his buggy to terra firma. The result was the quickest run to Finke ever seen, with Fellows covering the distance in one hour, 47 minutes and 19.13 seconds and averaging almost 125 km/h. This average speed was 8 km/h faster than Rentsch's lightening quick drive in 2007.

Behind him the thundering V8 Hawker Jimco of Chris Coulthard was pounding through the infamous deep whoops that resemble heavy swells at sea. Finishing the first stage of the race in second place in one hour, 51 minutes and 43.21 seconds. Third into Finke was the father and son team of Shannon and Ian Rentsch a minute and a half further back.

With the clouds dispersing, the drivers were greeted with sunshine on Monday morning, as the offroad buggies, trucks and 4WD's rolled on to the starting grid for the race back to Alice Springs. Fellows and Kittle were in the box seat and were given the green to go at 7:30 a.m. Coulthard who was sitting in second, would have to close the four-and-a-half-minute gap and pass the TRD Jimco to take the event win. With the racing conditions almost perfect after the earlier rain, Coulthard charged hard and closed to within one minute of Fellows. However David Fellows and Andrew Kittle withstood the onslaught and were the first to greet the chequered flag in Alice Springs with an overall time of three hours 39 minutes and 2.25 seconds. It was Fellows third win of the Tattersall's Finke Desert Race and the first for his navigator Andrew Kittle. Chris Coulthard and Rob Hawker took second outright in a time of three hours 40 minutes, 12.52 seconds - 10 minutes ahead of the single seater Jimco of Brad Prout in third. Prout had some luck on his side with Shannon and Ian Rentsch holding down third outright until the final 500 metres of the race. The transmission in their Chenowth buggy failing within sight of the finish line, putting them out of the race.

The Finke is also well known for its rivalry between the cars and the factory bike teams. In 2008 Fellows continued the recent trend of buggies covering the track down and back the old Ghan railway the quickest. Beating the best of them by just over 25 minutes was Bathurst's Ben Grabham, who rode a Honda CRF450R.