Raybestos Rookie Scott Speed won the May 30 AAA Insurance 200 at Dover Int’l Speedway, crossing the finish line 3.379 seconds ahead of second-place Jack Sprague. Speed scored his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory in his sixth career start. He claimed his first top-five and third top-10 in six starts this season. Speed’s victory at Dover gives the Raybestos Rookie class two consecutive Craftsman Truck Series wins. Donny Lia captured the May 24 Ohio 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Park. A Raybestos Rookie has scored top-10 finishes in six of the eight Craftsman Truck Series races this season. Colin Braun scored an eighth-place finish at Dover, his third top-10 in nine career Craftsman Truck Series starts. Braun holds a 13-point lead (85-72) over Donny Lia and Justin Marks in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the June 6 Sam’s Town 400K at Texas Motor Speedway. Kenny Irwin won the inaugural Sam’s Town 400K at Texas in 1997, edging out Boris Said and Rick Crawford. Irwin captured Raybestos Rookie of the Year honors that same season. A Raybestos Rookie has won four of the 20 Craftsman Truck Series races at Texas: Irwin, Travis Kvapil (2001) and Brendan Gaughan, who swept both races in 2002. Kvapil and Gaughan gave the Raybestos Rookie class three consecutive wins from 2001-2002. No Raybestos Rookie has won a pole at Texas since the series started competing at the 1.5-mile speedway in 1997 (20 races).(Raybestos PR)(6-2-2008)
