Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the Dollar General 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Stenhouse Jr. scored a 14th-place finish and took top rookie honors for the 11th time this season.
Stenhouse Jr. leads Brian Scott by six points (208-202) in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the 5-hour Energy 250 at Gateway International Raceway.
Two Raybestos Rookies have won at Gateway since the NASCAR Nationwide Series began competing at the 1.25-mile speedway in 1997 (14 races): Kevin Harvick (2000) and Reed Sorenson (2005). Harvick edged Jeff Purvis by 1.33 seconds while Sorenson crossed the finish line .710 seconds ahead of Mike Wallace.
Brian Scott was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2010 Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250, scoring a sixth-place finish.
The 2010 Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway featured a strong performance by the 2010 Raybestos Rookie class. Three rookies finished inside the top-10: Scott, Colin Braun (seventh) and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (ninth), the most ever in 14 previous races at Gateway.
Only once in 14 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.(Raybestos / Camp & Assoc PR)(10-20-2010)
