*Justin Lofton was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the October 23 Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway. Lofton scored a 13th-place finish and claimed top rookie honors for the sixth time this season.
*Austin Dillon leads Lofton by 53 points (237-184) in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings entering the October 30 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
*Dillon is fourth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship standings, best of any Raybestos Rookie. He is 78 points behind third-place Johnny Sauter and 16 ahead of fifth-place Matt Crafton.
*Dillon has racked up two victories this season, capturing the Lucas Oil 200 at Iowa Speeday (race No. 10) and the Smith’s Food and Drug Stores 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (race No. 20). He is the first Raybestos Rookie to win multiple races since Carl Edwards won three times in 2003.
*Johnny Sauter was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2009 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega, scoring a 14th-place finish.
*Colin Braun (2008) is the only first-year driver to score a top-five finish in four Talladega races. *The best qualifying effort by a Raybestos Rookie at Talladega is third-place by Colin Braun (2008).(Raybestos PR)(10-26-2010)
