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• DID YOU KNOW? Ryan Newman is the only Raybestos® Rookie to win the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (13 previous fall races).  Newman was leading Kurt Busch when the race was rain shortened to 207 of the scheduled 300 laps.  He is also the only freshman driver to win the pole for the Sylvania 300 and the only first-year driver to lead the most laps in the fall event (he led three times for 143 laps).

• Top-five finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the Sylvania 300 (13 fall races):

1999:   Tony Stewart, second

2002:   Ryan Newman, FIRST

2004:   Kasey Kahne, fourth

2006:   Denny Hamlin, fourth

• Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the Sylvania 300 (13 fall races):

1999:   Tony Stewart, second

2002:   Ryan Newman, FIRST

2003:   Jamie McMurray, 10^th

2004:   Kasey Kahne, fourth

2006:   Denny Hamlin, fourth

2006:   J.J. Yeley, eighth

• TWO Raybestos® Rookies have finished inside the top-10 just once in the fall race at New Hampshire.  In 2006, Denny Hamlin placed fourth ahead of eighth-place J.J. Yeley.

• Raybestos® Rookies that have led a lap in the fall race at New Hampshire:

1999:   Tony Stewart (twice for 40 laps)

2001:   Kevin Harvick (once for one lap)

2002:   Ryan Newman (three times for 143 laps)

2004:   Kasey Kahne (twice for 31 laps)

2006:   Denny Hamlin (once for four laps)

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

2008:   Michael McDowell (once for one lap)

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT STANDINGS

DRIVER           POINTS

Kevin Conway     194
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
LENOX Industrial Tools 301                Kevin Conway, 32nd
Coke Zero 400                             Kevin Conway, 14th
LifeLock.com 400                          Kevin Conway, 33rd
Brickyard 400                             Kevin Conway, 34th
Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500         Kevin Conway, 31st
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen  Kevin Conway, 31st
IRWIN Tools Night Race                    Kevin Conway,  36th
Emory Healthcare 500                      Kevin  Conway, 37th
Air Guard 400                             Kevin Conway, 41st

• 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 (45 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 (81 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 (30 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 format began 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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