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Raybestos Rookie News and Notes: Mountain Dew 250NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDERS

– NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES

-Justin Lofton was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the October 23 Kroger 200 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Lofton scored a 13th-place finish and claimed top rookie honors for the sixth time this season.

- Austin Dillon leads Lofton by 53 points (237-184) in the overall Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the October 30 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.

- Dillon is fourth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship standings, best of any Raybestos® Rookie. He is 78 points behind third-place Johnny Sauter and 16 ahead of fifth-place Matt Crafton.

- Dillon has racked up TWO victories this season, capturing the Lucas Oil 200 at Iowa Speeday (race No. 10) and the Smith’s Food and Drug Stores 350 at Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway (race No. 20). He is the first Raybestos® Rookie to win multiple races since Carl Edwards won three times in 2003.

- Dillon has won FIVE pole positions this season, the most ever by a Raybestos® Rookie in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series history. He became the first Raybestos Rookie to win THREE CONSECUTIVE poles, capturing the top starting position for the WinStar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway (race No. 8), VFW 200 at Michigan International Speedway (race No. 9) and Lucas Oil 200. He also sped to the top starting position for the Build Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway (race No. 18) and at Las Vegas.

- Johnny Sauter was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the 2009 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega, scoring a 14th-place finish.

- Colin Braun (2008) is the only first-year driver to score a top-five finish in four Talladega races.

Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at Talladega:

2007: Willie Allen, sixth

2008: Colin Braun, fourth

2008: Brian Scott, seventh

FOUR FOR FOUR! A Raybestos® Rookie has led at least one lap in all four races at Talladega.

Raybestos® Rookies that have a led a lap at Talladega (four races):

2006: Erik Darnell (once for five laps)

2006: Chad McCumbee (once for one lap)

2007: Tim Sauter (once for two laps)

2008: Colin Braun (twice for two laps)

2008: Brian Scott (once for one lap)

2009: Chris Jones (twice for three laps)

The best qualifying effort by a Raybestos® Rookie at Talladega is third-place by Colin Braun (2008).

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT STANDINGS

DRIVER POINTS

Austin Dillon 237

Justin Lofton 184

Jennifer Jo Cobb 137

Brett Butler 125

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

EnjoyIllinois.com 225 Justin Lofton, fifth

Built Ford Tough 225 Austin Dillon, ninth

TheRaceDayRaffleSeries.com 175 Austin Dillon, ninth

Smith’s Food and Drug Stores 350 Austin Dillon, FIRST

Kroger 200 Justin Lofton, 13th

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 31st 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 Smith’s 350 at Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway (two 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 Smith’s 350 at Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway (two 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 are FIVE by Austin Dillon (2010).

- 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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