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Joey Logano was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the November 1 AMP Energy 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. Logano scored a third-place finish, his third top-five and seventh top-10 of the season. He claimed top rookie honors for the fourth consecutive race and for the 24th time in 2009. Logano scored top-10 finishes on BOTH Talladega races this season (he finished ninth in the Aaron’s 499 in April). He is the first driver to score a top-five in the AMP Energy 500 since Martin Truex Jr. placed fifth in 2006 and is just the seventh driver to score a top-five in the fall race at Talladega since 1975.

Logano leads Scott Speed by 37 points (236-199) in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the November 8 Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Sam Hornish Jr. was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the 2008 Dickies 500 at Texas, scoring a 23rd-place finish.

The best finish by a Raybestos® Rookie in four fall races at Texas is fifth-place by Clint Bowyer in 2006. Bowyer is the only Raybestos® Rookie to score a top-five in four fall races at Texas.

Top-five finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the Dickies 500 at Texas:

2006: Clint Bowyer, fifth

Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the Dickies 500 at Texas:

2006: Clint Bowyer, fifth

2006: Denny Hamlin, 10th

DID YOU KNOW? Only once in 17 races at Texas has a Raybestos® Rookie won the race. Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win by 5.920 seconds over Jeff Burton in 2000. Earnhardt Jr. led six times for six times for 106 laps, more than any other driver.

DID YOU KNOW? Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne are the only Raybestos® Rookies to lead the most laps in 17 Sprint Cup Series races at Texas.

The best start by a Raybestos® Rookie in 17 races at Texas is third by Kasey Kahne (2004 spring) and Juan Pablo Montoya (2007 fall race).

The best start by a Raybestos® Rookie in four fall races at Texas is third by Juan Pablo Montoya in 2007.

Raybestos® Rookies that have led a lap in the fall race at Texas:

2006: Clint Bowyer (three times for three laps)

2006: J.J. Yeley (once for three laps)

2006: David Stremme (once for one lap)

2007: Juan Pablo Montoya (once for 10 laps)

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT STANDINGS

DRIVER POINTS
Joey Logano 236

Scott Speed 199

Max Papis 139

HIGHEST-FINISHING RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE BY RACE

EVENT HIGHEST-FINISHING ROOKIE

Daytona 500 Scott Speed, 35th

Auto Club 500 Joey Logano, 26th

Shelby 427 Joey Logano, 13th

Kobalt Tools 500 Joey Logano, 30th

Food City 500 Scott Speed, 28th

Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Joey Logano, 32nd

Samsung 500 Joey Logano, 30th

Subway Fresh Fit 500 Joey Logano, 21st

Aaron’s 499 Scott Speed, fifth

Crown Royal 400 Joey Logano, 19th

Southern 500 Joey Logano, ninth

Coca-Cola 600 Joey Logano, ninth

Autism Speaks 400 Joey Logano, 15th

Pocono 500 Joey Logano, 23rd

LifeLock 400 Joey Logano, 25th

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Max Papis, 12th

LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Joey Logano, FIRST!

Coke Zero 400 Joey Logano, 19th

LifeLock.com 400 Joey Logano, 18th

Allstate 400 at The Brickyard Joey Logano, 12th

Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Scott Speed, 23rd

Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen Max Papis, eighth

CARFAX 400 Joey Logano, seventh

Sharpie 500 Scott Speed, 15th

Pep Boys Auto 500 Joey Logano, 22nd

Chevy Rock & Roll 400 Joey Logano, 14th

Sylvania 300 Joey Logano, 21st

AAA 400 Scott Speed, 25th

Price Chopper 400 Scott Speed, 27th

Pepsi 500 Joey Logano, 14th

NASCAR Banking 500 Joey Logano, fifth

TUMS Fast Relief 500 Joey Logano, 12th

AMP Energy 500 Joey Logano, third

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HISTORY

· Regan Smith won 2008 Raybestos® Rookie of the Year honors in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, edging Sam Hornish Jr. by seven points (236-229). Smith became the first Raybestos® Rookie of the Year in the 52-year history of the program without a DNF (did not finish). He was running at the finish in all 34 starts he made during the season.

· DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a Sprint Cup Series race is Joey Logano. Montoya captured the 2009 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway ahead of second-place Jeff Gordon (17 races).

· DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a pole position in the Sprint Cup Series is Patrick Carpentier. Carpentier captured the top starting spot for the 2008 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (53 races).

DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to score a top-five finish is Joey Logano, who won the 2009 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 (17 races).

· The 2008 season marked the first time in NASCAR’s modern-era (since 1972) that THREE drivers shared the lead in the Raybestos® Rookie standings. After the second race of the season, Sam Hornish, Jr., Dario Franchitti and Regan Smith were all tied at the top of the standings.

Ryan Newman holds the all-time Raybestos® Rookie record for most poles (6), most top-fives (14) and most top-10s (22).

Denny Hamlin is the only Raybestos® Rookie to qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup since the program was created in 2004.

Hamlin holds the record for most earnings by a Raybestos® Rookie ($6.6 million in 2006).

The record for most wins by a Raybestos® Rookie is three, shared by Tony Stewart (1999) and Jimmie Johnson (2002).

A Raybestos® Rookie has posted multiple victories SEVEN times in NASCAR Sprint Cup:
1987: Davey Allison, two

1999: Tony Stewart, three

2000: Dale Earnhardt Jr., two

2001: Kevin Harvick, two

2002: Jimmie Johnson, three

2005: Kyle Busch, two

2006: Denny Hamlin, two

More than one Raybestos® Rookie has posted victories in their rookie season only three times: Morgan Shepherd and Ron Bouchard (one each in 1981), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (two) and Matt Kenseth (2000), Jimmie Johnson (three) and Ryan Newman (2002).

The way to the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship is to win Raybestos® Rookie of the Year. Since 1979, six Raybestos® Rookie of the Year drivers have gone on to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup title: Dale Earnhardt (1979), Rusty Wallace (1984), Alan Kulwicki (1986), Jeff Gordon (1993), Tony Stewart (1999, 2005) and Matt Kenseth (2000).

The longest streak for a Raybestos® Rookie to be in the top-10 in the Sprint Cup Series championship standings during the sport’s modern-era is 60 races (2001 MBNA Platinum 400 through 2002 Ford 400).

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- Camp & Associates, Inc., for Raybestos, Press Release