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Raybestos Rookie News & Notes – Nashville:


*Justin Lofton was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the July 31 Pocono Mountains 125 at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. Lofton scored a fifth-place finish, his second top-five this season, claimed top Raybestos Rookie honors for third time in 2010.
*Austin Dillon scored a seventh-place finish at Pocono, and has now finished seventh or better in each of his last sixstarts in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
*Dillon is the only Raybestos Rookie in series history to win three consecutivepole positions, capturing the top starting position for the 2010 WinStar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway, VFW 200 at Michigan International Speedway and Lucas Oil 200. The most poles by a Raybestos Rookie in series history are FOUR by Greg Biffle (1998) and Kurt Busch in (2000).
Dillon leads Justin Lofton by 40 points (178-138) in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings entering the August 7 Nashville 200 at Nashville Superspeedway.
*Dillon was the top Raybestos Rookie in the 2010 Nashville 200, claiming a 14th-place finish.
*Johnny Sauter was the top Raybestos Rookie in the 2009 August race at Nashville, grabbing a sixth-place finish.
*Carl Edwards is the only Raybestos Rookie to win in 10 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at Nashville. Edwards won the 2003 race by 1.209 seconds over Ted Musgrave in 2003. He is also the only Raybestos Rookie to lead the most laps at Nashville, leading twice for 76 of 150 laps.(Raybestos Rookie PR)(8-3-2010)