…Justin Allgaier was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the CARFAX 250 at Michigan International Speedway. Allgaier scored a seventh-place finish, his 10th top-10 of the 2009 season and claimed top rookie honors for the seventh time this season. He became the first Raybestos Rookie to score a top-10 finish at Michigan since 2005.
…Allgaier led the Michigan race twice for eight laps and was the only Raybestos Rookie to lead a lap in the event.
…At least one Raybestos Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in 20 of 23 NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season.
…Allgaier leads Brendan Gaughan by 17 points (205-188) entering the Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
…Allgaier is fifth in the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship standings, best of any Raybestos Rookie, 83 points ahead of sixth-place Steve Wallace.
…Three Raybestos Rookies rank inside the top-10 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship standings: Allgaier, Brendan Gaughan (ninth) and Michael McDowell (10th).
…Two Raybestos Rookies have won pole positions during the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series season: Gaughan and Erik Darnell.
…Cale Gale was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2008 Food City 250, grabbing a fourth-place finish.
…Cale Gale won the pole position or the 2008 Food City 250, his first career pole in the race. He joined Kevin Harvick (2000) as the only Raybestos Rookie pole winners in the August race at Bristol since the program was created in 1989 (20 races).
(Raybestos / Camp & Assoc PR)(8-18-2009)
