* Brendan Gaughan was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Stater Bros. 300 at Auto Club Speedway. Gaughan scored a ninth-place finish, his best in three Nationwide Series and the first top-10 by a Raybestos Rookie this season.
* Gaughan is eighth in the Nationwide Series championship standings, 104 behind leader Kyle Busch and 12 behind seventh-place Joey Logano. He leads ninth-place Jason Keller by one point and 10th-place Greg Biffle by 35.
* Scott Lagasse Jr. scored a 12th-place finish at Auto Club Speedway, his best in 16 Nationwide Series starts.
* Dario Franchitti was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2008 Sam’s Town 300, scoring a sixth-place finish.
* Carl Edwards is the only Raybestos Rookie to win a pole position in 12 previous Nationwide Series races at Las Vegas. Edwards grabbed the top starting spot for the 2005 Sam’s Town 300.
* Edwards is also the only Raybestos Rookie to lead the most laps in a Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas, holding the top spot six times for 124 laps.
* The best finish by a Raybestos Rookie at Las Vegas is second by Greg Biffle in 2001. Biffle finished 1.085 seconds behind race winner Todd Bodine.
* The only other Raybestos Rookie to score a top-five at Las Vegas is Scott Riggs, who finished fourth in the 2002 race.(Raybestos / Camp & Assoc. PR)(2-24-2009)
