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• DID YOU KNOW? Tony Stewart is the only Raybestos® Rookie to win in 11 previous NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway.  Stewart captured the inaugural Ford 400 in 1999 by 5.289 seconds over Bobby Labonte.  He led the race four times for 44 laps.

• Top-five finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway:

1999:   Tony Stewart, FIRST

2001:   Casey Atwood, third

2006:   Martin Truex, Jr., second

2006:   Denny Hamlin, third

• The most Raybestos® Rookies to finish inside the top-10 at Homestead are THREE (2001 and 2006):

2001:   Casey Atwood, third

2001:   Kevin Harvick, seventh

2001:   Jason Leffler, 10^th

2006:   Martin Truex Jr., second

2006:   Denny Hamlin, third

2006:   Clint Bowyer, 10^th

• Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami  Speedway:

1999:   Tony Stewart, first

2000:   Dave Blaney, ninth

2001:   Casey Atwood, third

2001:   Kevin Harvick, seventh

2001:   Jason Leffler, 10^th

2002:   Ryan Newman, sixth

2002:   Jimmie Johnson, eighth

2003:   Jamie McMurray, ninth

2004:   Brendan Gaughan, sixth

2006:   Martin Truex, Jr., second

2006:   Denny Hamlin, third

2006:   Clint Bowyer, 10^th

2007:   David Ragan, 10^th

• DID YOU KNOW? The most laps led by a Raybestos® Rookie in 11 previous races at Homestead are 52 by Casey Atwood in 2001.

• Raybestos® Rookies that have led at least one lap in the Ford 400:

1999:   Tony Stewart (four times for 44 laps)

2001:   Casey Atwood (twice for 52 laps)

2001:   Kevin Harvick (three times for 47 laps)

2002:   Ryan Newman (once for 28 laps)

2002:   Jimmie Johnson (once for 27 laps)

2006:   Martin Truex Jr. (once for 27 laps)

2007:   David Ragan (once for one lap)

• DID YOU KNOW? The only Raybestos® Rookie to win a pole position in 11 at Homestead-Miami Speedway is Jamie McMurray.  McMurray won his first-career pole at the 2003 Ford 400 on the way to claiming Raybestos® Rookie of the Year honors.  McMurray scored a ninth-place finish in the race, his 13^th top-10 finish of the 2003 season.

• Joey Logano was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the 2009 Ford 400, scoring a 24^th-place finish.

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 (55 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 (91 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 Juice 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway (40 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