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• Justin Lofton was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the August 18 O’Reilly 200 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.  Lofton scored a fifth-place finish, his third top-five and fourth top-10 this season.  He claimed top rookie honors for the fifth time in 2010.

• DID YOU KNOW? At least one Raybestos® Rookie has finished inside the top-10 in 12 of 16 races this season.

• Austin Dillon leads Justin Lofton by 49 points (211-162) in the overall Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the August 27 EnjoyIllinois.com 225 at Chicagoland (Joliet, Ill.) Speedway.

• Dillon is seventh in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship standings, best of any Raybestos® Rookies.  He is six points behind sixth-place Matt Crafton and 56 ahead of eighth-place Mike Skinner.

• Dillon is the only Raybestos® Rookie in truck series history to win THREE CONSECUTIVE pole positions, capturing the top starting position for the 2010 WinStar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway (race No. 8), VFW 200 at Michigan International Speedway (race No. 9) and Lucas Oil 200 (race No. 10).  The most poles by a Raybestos® Rookie in series history are FOUR by Greg Biffle (1998) and Kurt Busch in (2000).

• Johnny Sauter was the top Raybestos® Rookie in the 2009 EnjoyIllinois.com 225, scoring a fifth-place finish.

• TWO Raybestos® Rookies led the 2009 race at Chicagoland:  Brent Raymer and Tayler Malsam.  Each driver led the race once for one lap.

• Top-five finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at Chicagoland (one race):

2009:   Johnny Sauter, fifth

• Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at Chicagoland (one race):

2009:   Johnny Sauter, fifth

• Raybestos® Rookies that have led a lap at Chicagoland (one race):

2009:   Brent Raymer (once for one lap)

2009:   Tayler Malsam (once for one lap)

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT STANDINGS

DRIVER                      POINTS

Austin Dillon               211
Justin Lofton               162
Jennifer Jo Cobb            129
Brett Butler                125
Chris Eggleston              34
Landon Cassill                7

HIGHEST-FINISHING RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE BY RACE

EVENT                          HIGHEST-FINISHING ROOKIE

NextEra Energy Resources 250   Brett Butler, 11th
E-Z-GO 200                     Austin  Dillon, 10th
Kroger 250                     Austin  Dillon, 16th
Nashville 200                  Austin  Dillon, 14th
O’Reilly Auto Parts 250        Austin Dillon, sixth
Dover 200                      Justin Lofton, third
N.C. Education Lottery 200     Justin Lofton, 15th
WinStar World Casino 400K      Austin Dillon, third
VFW 200                        Austin Dillon, fifth
Lucas Oil 200                  Austin  Dillon, FIRST
CampingWorld.com 200           Austin Dillon,  seventh
Kroger 200                     Austin  Dillon, sixth
Pocono  Mountains 125          Justin Lofton, fifth
Nashville 200                  Austin  Dillon, second
Too Tough To Tame 200          Austin Dillon,  fifth
O’Reilly 200                   Justin  Lofton, fifth

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HISTORY

• Johnny Sauter won 2009 Raybestos® Rookie of the Year honors in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.  Sauter was the top rookie 14 times in 25 races and his official margin of victory over Tayler Malsam was 57 points (270-213).  He scored his first win at Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway (race No. 20) in his 31^st career start, 2.474 seconds ahead of teammate Matt Crafton.  He finished the season with one win, two poles, seven top-five, 13 top-10 finishes and placed sixth in the series championship standings.

• DID YOU KNOW? Austin Dillon is the most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series when he captured the 2010 Lucas Oil 200 at Iowa Speedway (seven races).

• DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a pole position in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is also Austin Dillon, who grabbed the top starting spot for the 2010 Lucas Oil 200 at Iowa Speedway (seven races).

• DID YOU KNOW?  SIX drivers from Roush Fenway Racing have captured Raybestos® Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series:

2008:   Colin Braun

2006:   Erik Darnell

2005:   Todd Kluever

2003:   Carl Edwards

2000:   Kurt Busch

1998:   Greg Biffle

• The most Raybestos® Rookies to win a race in a single season: THREE in 1997 (Kenny Irwin, Tony Raines, and Randy Tolsma).

• Austin Dillon is the only Raybestos® Rookie in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series history to win THREE CONSECUTIVE pole positions.  Dillon claimed the top starting position for the 2010 WinStar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway (race No. 8), VFW 200 at Michigan International Speedway (race No. 9) and Lucas Oil 200 (race No. 10).

• The most poles by a Raybestos® Rookie: FOUR (Greg Biffle in 1998 and Kurt Busch in 2000).

• Kurt Busch holds the record for best championship finish (second-place), most wins (four), and most money earned ($745,632).

• The record for most top-fives by a Raybestos® Rookie is 13 (Kurt Busch in 2000 and Carl Edwards in 2003).

• The record for most top-10 finishes by a Raybestos® Rookie is 19 by Ricky Hendrick in 2001.

• Kenny Irwin was the first Raybestos® Rookie to win a race in the Camping World Truck Series.  Irwin captured the Florida Dodge Dealers 400K at Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 16, 1997.  He took the checkered flag by .289 seconds over Mike Bliss.

• Irwin also holds the record for quickest win by a Raybestos® Rookie in the Camping World Truck Series, scoring his first career win at Homestead in just his third career start.

• TWO Raybestos® Rookies have won consecutive pole positions:  Austin Dillon (2010) and Kurt Busch (2000).

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