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• Raybestos® Rookie Joey Logano scored his first-career win in the 2009 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.  The victory came in Logano’s 20^th career start.  Logano captured 2009 Raybestos® Rookie of the Year honors and finished the season with one win, three top-five and seven top-10 finishes.

• Patrick Carpentier won the pole position for the 2008 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 (June race) at New Hampshire and is the most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a pole position in the Sprint Cup Series (71 races).

• Carpentier and Ryan Newman (2002 fall race) are the only Raybestos® Rookies to win a pole in 30 previous races at New Hampshire.

• DID YOU KNOW? Only three Raybestos® Rookies have scored top-five finishes in 17 previous June races at New Hampshire:

2002:   Ryan Newman, fifth

2005:   Kyle Busch, fourth

2009:   Joey Logano, FIRST

• DID YOU KNOW? A Raybestos® Rookie has scored top-10 finishes in 10 of 17 previous June races at New Hampshire.

• DID YOU KNOW? Tony Stewart is the only Raybestos® Rookie to lead the most laps in the June race at New Hampshire (twice for 118 laps in 1999).

• The most Raybestos® Rookies to lead the June race at New Hampshire are THREE in 2006:

—Reed Sorenson (once for 31 laps)

—Clint Bowyer (once for 23 laps)

—Denny Hamlin (once for one lap)

• DID YOU KNOW? Two or more Raybestos® Rookies have finished in the top-10 once in 17 June races at New Hampshire.  In 1993, Jeff Gordon finished seventh while Bobby Labonte placed 10^th.

• Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at New Hampshire (17 races):

1993:   Jeff Gordon, seventh

1993:   Bobby Labonte, 10^th

1996:   Johnny Benson, ninth

1999:   Tony Stewart, 10^th

2001:   Kevin Harvick, eighth

2002:   Ryan Newman, fifth

2003:   Greg Biffle, 10^th

2004:   Kasey Kahne, eighth

2005:   Kyle Busch, fourth

2006:   Denny Hamlin, sixth

2009:   Joey Logano, FIRST

• Raybestos® Rookies who have led a lap in the July race at  New Hampshire:

1993:   Jeff Gordon (twice for three laps)

1996:   Johnny Benson (once for 17 laps)

1999:   Tony Stewart (twice for 118 laps)

2001:   Kevin Harvick (once for 13 laps)

2002:   Ryan Newman (once for one lap)

2003:   Jamie McMurray (once for 13 laps)

2006:   Reed Sorenson (once for 31 laps)

2006:   Clint Bowyer (once for 23 laps)

2006:   Denny Hamlin (once for one lap)

2008:   Patrick Carpentier (once for four laps)

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT  STANDINGS

DRIVER            POINTS

Kevin Conway      165
Terry Cook         38

HIGHEST-FINISHING RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE BY RACE

EVENT                             HIGHEST-FINISHING ROOKIE

Auto Club 500                     Kevin Conway, 31st
Shelby American                   Kevin Conway,  36th
Kobalt Tools 500                  Kevin Conway,  31st
Food City 500                     Kevin  Conway, 28th
Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500      Kevin Conway, 31st
Subway Fresh Fit 600              Kevin  Conway, 33rd
Samsung Mobile 500                Kevin Conway,  27th
Aaron’s 499                       Kevin  Conway, 30th
Crown Royal 300                   Kevin Conway,  37th
SHOWTIME Southern 500             Kevin Conway, 33rd
Autism Speaks 400                 Kevin Conway,  33rd
Coca-Cola 600                     Kevin  Conway, 35th
Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500      Kevin Conway, 35th
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400  Kevin Conway, 40th
Toyota/Save Mart 350              Kevin  Conway, 28th

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HISTORY

• Joey Logano won 2009 Raybestos® Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.  Logano captured top rookie honors 26 times in 36 races and officially claimed the honor by 33 points (270-237) over Scott Speed.  At 19 years of age, Logano became the youngest driver to win Raybestos® Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

• Logano scored his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory in at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (race No. 17).  The victory came in his 20^th career start.  He finished the season with one win, three top-five and seven top-10 finishes and placed 20^th in the final series championship standings.

• Logano is the THIRD driver from Joe Gibbs Racing to win Raybestos® Rookie of the Year, joining Tony Stewart (1999) and Denny Hamlin (2006).

• DID YOU KNOW? Logano is the most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a Sprint Cup Series race, capturing the 2009 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway ahead of second-place Jeff Gordon (35 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 (71 races).

• DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to score a top-five finish is Logano, who placed third in the 2009 AMP Energy 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway (21 races).

• Regan Smith (2008) is the only Raybestos® Rookie of the Year in the 54-year history of the program without a DNF (did not finish).  He was running at the finish in all 34 starts he made and captured top rookie honors over Sam Hornish Jr. by just seven points (236-229).

• 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.

• The record for most earnings by a Raybestos® Rookie 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 during their first season only three times:

1981:   Morgan Shepherd (one) and Ron Bouchard (one)

2000:   Dale Earnhardt Jr. (two) and Matt Kenseth (one)

2002:   Jimmie Johnson (three) and Ryan Newman (one)

• 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