*Justin Lofton was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the August 27 Enjoy Illinois.com 225 at Chicagoland Speedway. Lofton scored a fifth-place finish, his second consecutive top-five and fourth of the 2010 season. He claimed top rookie honors for the sixth time this season and moved up to 10th-place in the series championship standings, a gain of two positions.
*Austin Dillon scored a ninth-place finish at Chicagoland, his 11th top-10 in 17 races this season. Dillon led once for six laps at Chicagoland and was the only Raybestos Rookie to lead a lap in the event.
*Dillon leads Lofton by 42 points (214-172) in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings entering the September 3 Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway.
*Ricky Carmichael was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2008 Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky, scoring a seventh-place finish.
*A Raybestos Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in seven of the 10 races at Kentucky including the last FOUR consecutive.
*Carl Edwards is the only Raybestos Rookie to score a win in 10 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at Kentucky Speedway. Edwards won the 2003 event by 3.568 seconds over Ted Musgrave. He led the race once covering the final 40 laps.
*The best start by a Raybestos Rookie at Kentucky is second, shared by Ricky Hendrick (2001) and Todd Kluever (2005).
[Complete Rookie point standings are posted on the Kentucky Race Page]
(Raybestos PR)(8-31-2010)
