Justin Allgaier was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the O’Reilly 300 at Texas. Allgaier scored a 10th-place finish, his third top-10 in five races this season and claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the second consecutive race.
Allgaier leads Brendan Gaughan by eight points (57-49) in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the Nationwide 300 at Nashville Superspeedway.
Allgaier is fifth in the Nationwide Series championship standings, 12 points behind fourth-place Jason Leffler and 24 ahead of sixth-place Kevin Harvick.
Three Raybestos Rookies rank inside the top-10 in the Nationwide Series championship standings: Allgaier, Gaughan (eighth) and Scott Lagasse Jr. (10th).
At least one Raybestos Rookie has scored top-10 finishes in four of the first five races this season.
Cale Gale was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide 300 at Nashville, claiming an eighth-place finish.(Raybestos / Camp & Assoc. PR)(4-6-2009)
