Cale Gale was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Pepsi 300 at Nashville. Gale scored an eighth-place finish, his best in 14 career Nationwide Series starts and first top-10. He claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the second time in three starts this season. Dario Franchitti holds a six-point lead (58-52) over Bryan Clauson in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the OReilly 300 at Texas. David Ragan was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2007 OReilly 300, scoring a fifth-place finish. Ragan led the race once for two laps and was the only first-year driver to lead a lap. Ragan won the pole for the OReilly 300, his first career pole in the Nationwide Series. He is the third Raybestos Rookie to win a pole at Texas, joining Jason Leffler (2000) and Kyle Busch (2004).(Raybestos PR)(4-1-2008)
