Brian Scott was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Dollar General 300 at Chicagoland. Scott scored a third-place finish, his best in 25 NASCAR Nationwide Series races and his first top-five. He claimed top rookie honors for the eighth time this season.
Raybestos Rookie Parker Kligerman scored a 13th-place finish at Chicagoland, equaling his best finish in seven Nationwide Series races. Kligerman owns the best qualifying effort by a Raybestos Rookie in 2010, a second-place start in the Subway Jalapeno 250 at Daytona.
Scott leads Ricky Stenhouse Jr. by 20 points (180-160) in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings entering the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway Raceway.
Michael Annett was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2009 Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250, scoring a seventh-place finish.
Erik Darnell scored a 10th-place finish last year at Gateway, one of five top-10 finishes he racked up during the 2009 season.
Two Raybestos Rookies have won at Gateway since the Nationwide Series began competing at the 1.25-mile speedway in 1997 (13 races). Reed Sorenson won the 2005 race by .710 seconds over Mike Wallace while Kevin Harvick captured the 2000 race by 1.338 seconds over Jeff Purvis.
Only once in 13 races at have two Raybestos Rookies finished inside the top-five at Gateway. In 2005, Reed Sorenson won the race while Carl Edwards posted third-place finish.
At least one Raybestos Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in each of the last three consecutive races at Gateway.
Sorenson and Harvick are the only Raybestos Rookies to lead the most laps in a race at Gateway. Harvick led five times for 110 laps in 2000 while Sorenson led twice for 60 laps in 2005.(Raybestos/Camp & Assoc PR)(7-14-2010)
