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Raybestos Rookie News and Notes: LifeLock.com 400
Tuesday July 7, 2009
NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDERS – NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
Joey Logano was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the July 4 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. Logano posted a 19th-place finish and took top rookie honors for the 14th time this season.
Joey Logano leads Scott Speed by 23 points (201-178) in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the July 11 LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland (Joliet, Ill.) Speedway.
DID YOU KNOW? The record number for Raybestos® Rookies to finish inside the top-10 at Chicagoland is THREE in 2006: Reed Sorenson (seventh), Clint Bowyer (ninth) and J.J. Yeley (10th).
Kevin Harvick is the only Raybestos® Rookie to win in eight Sprint Cup races at Chicagoland. Harvick won the 2001 Tropicana 400 by .649 seconds over Robert Pressley and is the only Raybestos® Rookie to lead the most laps in a race at Chicagoland (five times for 113 laps).
TWO more Raybestos® Rookies have finished inside the top-five TWICE just once in eight Sprint Cup races at Chicagoland
2002: Jimmie Johnson (fourth) and Ryan Newman (fifth).
2006: Reed Sorenson (seventh), Clint Bowyer (ninth) and J.J. Yeley (10th).
Top-five finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at Chicagoland:
2001: Kevin Harvick, FIRST
2002: Jimmie Johnson, fourth
2002: Ryan Newman, fifth
Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at Chicagoland:
2001: Kevin Harvick, FIRST
2001: Kurt Busch, eighth
2002: Jimmie Johnson, fourth
2002: Ryan Newman, fifth
2006: Reed Sorenson, seventh
2006: Clint Bowyer, ninth
2006: J.J. Yeley, 10th
DID YOU KNOW? A Raybestos® Rookie has led at least one lap in five of the eight Sprint Cup races at Chicagoland:
2001: Kevin Harvick (five times for 113 laps)
2002: Ryan Newman (twice for 86 laps)
2002: Jimmie Johnson (once for two laps)
2003: Jamie McMurray (once for one lap)
2004: Kasey Kahne (twice for 10 laps)
2006: Reed Sorenson (once for six laps)
RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER POINT STANDINGS
DRIVER POINTS
Joey Logano 201
Scott Speed 178
Max Papis 69
Dexter Bean 11
HIGHEST-FINISHING RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE BY RACE
EVENT HIGHEST-FINISHING ROOKIE
Daytona 500 Scott Speed, 35th
Auto Club 500 Joey Logano, 26th
Shelby 427 Joey Logano, 13th
Kobalt Tools 500 Joey Logano, 30th
Food City 500 Scott Speed, 28th
Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Joey Logano, 32nd
Samsung 500 Joey Logano, 30th
Subway Fresh Fit 500 Joey Logano, 21st
Aaron’s 499 Scott Speed, fifth
Crown Royal 400 Joey Logano, 19th
Southern 500 Joey Logano, ninth
Coca-Cola 600 Joey Logano, ninth
Autism Speaks 400 Joey Logano, 15th
Pocono 500 Joey Logano, 23rd
LifeLock 400 Joey Logano, 25th
Toyota/Save Mart 350 Max Papis, 12th
LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Joey Logano, FIRST!
Coke Zero 400 Joey Logano, 19th
RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HISTORY
· Regan Smith won 2008 Raybestos® Rookie of the Year honors in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, edging Sam Hornish Jr. by seven points (236-229). Smith became the first Raybestos® Rookie of the Year in the 52-year history of the program without a DNF (did not finish). He was running at the finish in all 34 starts he made during the season.
· DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to win a Sprint Cup Series race is Joey Logano. Montoya captured the 2009 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway ahead of second-place Jeff Gordon (two 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 (38 races).
DID YOU KNOW? The most recent Raybestos® Rookie to score a top-five finish is Joey Logano, who won the 2009 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 (two races).
· 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 program was created in 2004.
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 in their rookie season only three times: Morgan Shepherd and Ron Bouchard (one each in 1981), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (two) and Matt Kenseth (2000), Jimmie Johnson (three) and Ryan Newman (2002).
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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