Brian Scott was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Royal Purple 200 at Darlington Raceway. Scott grabbed top rookie honors for fourth time this season and was credited with a 25th-place finish.
Scott leads James Buescher by six points (103-97) in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings entering the Heluva Good! 200 at Dover International Speedway.
Three Raybestos Rookies have scored top-10 finishes this season: Scott, Buescher and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Michael McDowell was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2009 Heluva Good! 200 at Dover, scoring an eighth-place finish. McDowell also led the race once for one lap.
Erik Darnell scored a ninth-place finish in the 2009 spring race Dover, giving the Raybestos Rookie class two top-10 finishers in the same race for just the second time in 21 previous spring races. The other drivers who accomplished the feat were Scott Wimmer (seventh) and Greg Biffle (ninth) in 2001.
Three Raybestos Rookies have scored top-five finishes in the spring race at Dover since the program was created in 1989: 1991 Jeff Gordon, second; 1997 Steve Park, fifth; 2004 Kyle Busch, fifth
Kevin Harvick (2000) is the only Raybestos Rookie to win the pole for the spring race at Dover.
(Raybestos / Camp & Assoc PR)(5-12-2010)
