Dover Rookie Notes:


Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond. Stenhouse Jr. scored a fourth-place finish, his second top-five and fifth top-10 of the season and claimed top rookie honors for the eighth time in 2010.
Brian Scott leads Ricky Stenhouse Jr. by three points (198-195) in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings entering the Dover 200 at Dover.
Johnny Benson (1994) is the only Raybestos Rookie to win in 21 previous the fall races at Dover. Benson scored his first career Nationwide Series win .16 seconds ahead of second-place Harry Gant. He led just once covering the final 15 laps.
Three Raybestos Rookies finished in the top-10 in the 2005 Dover 200, the most to finish in the top-10 in the fall race at Dover since the program was created in 1989: Reed Sorenson (fourth), Denny Hamlin (sixth) and Carl Edwards (ninth).(Raybestos/Camp & Assoc.)(9-22-2010)