Michael Annett was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Dover 200 at Dover International Speedway. Annett scored a 13th-place finish and took top rookie honors for the fourth time this season and for the second time in the last three races.
John Wes Townley earned the eighth-place starting position at Dover, his best qualifying effort in 21 NASCAR Nationwide Series races. Townley was the only Raybestos Rookie to start inside the top-10 at Dover.
At least one Raybestos Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in 23 of 28 NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season. Justin Allgaier leads Brendan Gaughan by 16 points (216-200) entering the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway.
Three Raybestos Rookies are in the top-10 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship standings. Allgaier is sixth followed by Gaughan (ninth) and Michael McDowell (tenth).
Two Raybestos Rookies have won pole positions during the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series season: Gaughan and Erik Darnell.
Bryan Clauson was the top Raybestos Rookie in the 2008 Kansas Lottery 300, logging a 21st-place finish.
The best finish by a Raybestos Rookie in eight previous races at Kansas is second by Kerry Earnhardt in 2002. Earnhardt finished 3.272 seconds behind race winner Jeff Burton.
Paul Menard (2004) is the only Raybestos Rookie to win a pole position in eight Nationwide Series races at Kansas.
Two Raybestos Rookies have finished inside the top-five just once in eight previous Nationwide Series races at Kansas. In 2005, Jon Wood finished fifth while Reed Sorenson placed sixth.
Scott Riggs holds the record for most laps led by a Raybestos Rookie in the Nationwide Series race at Kansas. Riggs led once for 52 laps in the 2002 race.
The most Raybestos Rookies to lead a race at Kansas are three in 2002: Riggs, Shane Hmiel (once for 16 laps) and Kerry Earnhardt (once for nine laps).
(Raybestos/Camp & Assoc. PR)(9-30-2009)
