Johnny Sauter was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the May 30 AAA Insurance 200 at Dover International Speedway. Sauter scored a fifth-place finish, his second top-five in 18 starts and his best of the 2009 season. He claimed top Raybestos Rookie honors for second time this season and posted his second top-10 in the last three races. Sauter became just the fourth Raybestos Rookie to score a top-five finish in 10 previous Camping World Truck Series races at Dover. Sauter and Tayler Malsam are tied for the lead (71-71) in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the June 5 Winstar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Kenny Irwin won the inaugural Winstar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway in 1997, edging out Boris Said and Rick Crawford for the win. Irwin went on to capture Raybestos Rookie of the Year that same season. A Raybestos Rookie has won four of the 22 previous Camping World Truck Series races at Texas: Irwin, Travis Kvapil (2001) and Brendan Gaughan, who swept both races in 2002. Raybestos Rookies Kvapil and Gaughan gave the rookie class three consecutive wins in 2001-2002. Marc Mitchell was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2008 June race, scoring a 12th-place finish.(Raybestos PR)(6-1-2009)
