Michael Annett was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Annett scored an eighth-place finish, his third top-10 this season and claimed top rookie honors for the second time in 2009.
Michael McDowell posted a 10th-place finish at Bristol, his fifth top-10 and second in the last four races.
Two Raybestos Rookies led the Food City 250 at Bristol: Justin Allgaier (once for two laps) and Brendan Gaughan (once for 10 laps).
At least one Raybestos Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in 21 of 24 NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season.
Allgaier leads Brendan Gaughan by 15 points (206-191) entering the August 30 NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec.
Three Raybestos Rookies are in the top-10 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship standings. Allgaier is fifth followed by Brendan Gaughan (ninth) and Michael McDowell (tenth).
Two Raybestos Rookies have won pole positions during the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series season: Gaughan and Erik Darnell.
Landon Cassill was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, scoring a 14th-place finish.
The best finish by a Raybestos Rookie at Montreal is sixth-place by Kyle Krisiloff in 2007.
Three Raybestos Rookies finished inside the top-10 in the 2007 race at Montreal: Kyle Krisiloff (sixth), Marcos Ambrose (seventh) and Brad Coleman (eighth).
Marcos Ambrose is the only Raybestos Rookie to lead a lap in two previous Nationwide Series races at Montreal. Ambrose led the 2007 race twice for 37 of the event’s 75 laps.
The best qualifying effort by a Raybestos Rookie at Montreal is a fifth-place effort by Marcos Ambrose in 2007.
(Raybestos / Camp & Assoc PR)(8-26-2009)
