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• Denny Hamlin owns the best finish by a Raybestos® Rookie at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway since Morgan Shepherd won the 1981 spring race.  Hamlin finished second in the 2006 fall race, .544 seconds behind race winner Jimmie Johnson.

• FIVE Raybestos® Rookies have scored a top-five finish in the fall race at Martinsville (since 1974):

1974:   Earl Ross, FIRST

1977:   Sam Sommers, fifth

1979:   Joe Millikan, third

1989:   Dick Trickle, third

2006:   Denny Hamlin, second

• A Raybestos® Rookie has finished in the top-10 in three of the last five fall races at Martinsville:

2005:   Kyle Busch, ninth

2006:   Denny Hamlin, second

2007:   Juan Pablo Montoya, eighth

• Only once since 1975 have TWO Raybestos® Rookies finished in the top-10 in the fall race at Martinsville.  In 1979 Joe Millikan finished third while Terry Labonte placed ninth.

• Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in TUMS Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville (since 1974):

1974:   Earl Ross, FIRST

1977:   Sam Sommers, fifth

1979:   Joe Millikan, third

1979:   Terry Labonte, ninth

1980:   Jody Ridley, ninth

1981:   Ron Bouchard, sixth

1987:   Dale Jarrett, 10^th

1989:   Dick Trickle, third

2002:   Jimmie Johnson, sixth

2003:   Jamie McMurray, eighth

2005:   Kyle Busch, ninth

2006:   Denny Hamlin, second

• The most laps led by a Raybestos® Rookie in the fall race at Martinsville: 79 laps by Earl Ross in 1974.

• The most Raybestos® Rookies to lead a lap in the fall race at Martinsville are TWO in 1981:  Tim Richmond (twice for 14 laps) and Morgan Shepherd (once for 18 laps).

• Raybestos® Rookies that have led a lap in the fall race at Martinsville (since 1975):

1974:   Earl Ross (once for 79 laps)

1979:   Joe Millikan (once for 74 laps)

1981:   Tim Richmond (twice for 14 laps)

1981:   Morgan Shepherd (once for 18 laps)

1982:   Geoffrey Bodine (three times for 53 laps

1984:   Rusty Wallace (twice for two laps)

1986:   Alan Kulwicki (once for one lap)

1989:   Dick Trickle (once for one lap)

1992:   Jimmy Hensley (once for six laps)

1995:   Ricky Craven (once for two laps)

2001:   Kurt Busch (once for 38 laps)

2001:   Kevin Harvick (once for 20 laps)

2001:   Casey Atwood (once for one lap)

2002:   Ryan Newman (once for 33 laps)

2004:   Kasey Kahne (once for 17 laps)

• Joey Logano was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the 2009 TUMS Fast Relief 500.  Logano scored a 12^th-place finish on the lead lap.

• Ryan Newman (2002) is the only Raybestos® Rookie to win a pole for the fall race at Martinsville (since 1975).

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT STANDINGS

DRIVER                                             POINTS

Kevin Conway                                     198
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
AAA 400                                  Kevin Conway, 37th
Price Chopper 400                        Kevin  Conway, 38th
Pepsi MAX 400                            Kevin Conway, 31st

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 (50 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 (86 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 (35 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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- Camp & Associates, Inc., For Raybestos, Press Release