Brendan Gaughan was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Kroger On Track For The Cure 250 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Gaughan scored a fifth-place finish, his third top-five and eighth top-10 of the season. He took top rookie honors for the seventh time this season and led the race once for eight laps.
Justin Allgaier won the pole at Memphis, his first in 36 NASCAR Nationwide Series races. Allgaier is the third Raybestos Rookie to win a pole this season joining Gaughan and Erik Darnell.
Allgaier leads Brendan Gaughan by 10 points (227-217) entering the OReilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway.
Allgaier is fifth in the series championship standings, best of any Raybestos Rookie.
At least one Raybestos Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in 26 of 32 NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season.
Three Raybestos Rookies are in the top-10 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship standings. Allgaier is fifth followed by Gaughan (10th) and Micheal Annett (tenth). (Raybestos / Camp & Assoc PR)(11-4-2009)
