10-17-2007 | TruckSeries.com Report
- Willie Allen was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the October 6 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. Allen scored a sixth-place finish, his first top-10 of the 2007 season, and took Raybestos® Rookie of the Race honors for the third time this season. He scored the best finish by a Raybestos® Rookie in two Craftsman Truck Series races at Talladega and equaled his best effort in 23 Craftsman Truck Series starts. Allen also scored a sixth-place finish at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on October 22, 2005. - Allen holds a four-point advantage (144-140) over Tim Sauter in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the October 20 Kroger 200 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. - Allen is 15th in the Craftsman Truck Series championship standings, best of any Raybestos® Rookie. He is 24 points ahead of 16th-place Sauter. Erik Darnell was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the 2006 Kroger 200 at Martinsville, grabbing a third-place finish. Top-five finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the fall race at Martinsville: Top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the fall race at Martinsville: DID YOU KNOW? TWO or more Raybestos® Rookies have finished inside the top-five only once in four fall races at Martinsville. In 2005, Todd Kluever finished second while Timothy Peters scored an eighth-place finish. DID YOU KNOW? At least one Raybestos® Rookie has scored a top-10 finish in all four October races at Martinsville. DID YOU KNOW? Carl Edwards is the only Raybestos® Rookie to win a pole in four previous fall truck series races at Martinsville, grabbing the top starting spot in 2003. RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HISTORY The most Raybestos® Rookies to win a race in a single season is THREE in 1997: Kenny Irwin, Tony Raines, and Randy Tolsma. The most poles by a Raybestos® Rookie is four (Greg Biffle in 1998 and Kurt Busch in 2000). Busch holds the record for best championship finish (2nd), most wins (four), and most money won ($745,632). The record for most top-fives by a Raybestos® Rookie is 13 (shared by Busch and Carl Edwards). The record for most top-10 finishes by a Raybestos® Rookie is 19, by Ricky Hendrick in 2001. Four drivers from Roush Racing have won Raybestos® Rookie of the Year while competing in the Craftsman Truck Series: Carl Edwards (2003), Greg Biffle (1998), Kurt Busch (2000) and Erik Darnell (2006). Kenny Irwin was the first Raybestos® Rookie to win a race in the Craftsman 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 Craftsman Truck Series, scoring his first career win at Homestead in just his third career start.
2003: Carl Edwards, second
2005: Todd Kluever, second
2006: Erik Darnell, third
2003: Carl Edwards, second
2004: Robert Huffman, 10th
2005: Todd Kluever, second
2005: Timothy Peters, eighth
2006: Erik Darnell, third