Donny Lia

Donny Lia is the First Rookie Winner Since 2003: Raybestos® Rookie of the Year contender Donny Lia won last Saturday’s Ohio 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Park, crossing the finish line 0.241 seconds ahead of second-place David Starr. Lia scored his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory in his eighth start. He grabbed his second top-10 finish in six races in 2008. Lia also became the first Raybestos® Rookie to lead a lap in five races at Mansfield (he led the race once for one lap). Lia is the first Raybestos® to win a Craftsman Truck Series race since Carl Edwards won at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway in August 2003 (115 races).

Donny Lia on Racing at Dover: “I am looking forward to going to Dover; I have never been there before. It’s a high-banked one-mile that you can charge the corners, no lifting, much like Charlotte We are going to do our best to get another solid run. Qualifying is going to be key there. We have started pretty far back this year so our team has been working on that, so we can start further up in field. We are going to concentrate on keeping our nose clean and coming out with another solid finish.

Donny Lia Leaps in Raybestos® Rookie Standings: With his win last weekend, Lia made huge gains in the Raybestos® Rookie of the Year competition. Lia scored Raybestos® Rookie of the Race honors and jumped from fifth to second in the standings where he is currently only eight points behind Roush Fenway Racing’s Colin Braun.

Donny Lia On-Air at Dover: Donny Lia will be a guest on ESPN Radio during their live broadcast from Dover International Speedway on Friday, May 30th. Lia will be on-air around 2:30 p.m. during their live three-hour broadcasting extravaganza.

The Truck Choice for Dover: Jason Miller, Crew Chief of the No. 71 Chevrolet, has selected Chassis No. 002 as TRG’s primary piece for the AAA Insurance 200. This is the same truck that Lia drove to as high as second at Kansas Speedway in April, ultimately finishing in 11th place. Lia also ran this truck at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on May 16th, but with an early qualifying draw and variable track conditions, Lia started the race 34th. Only nine laps in, Lia was wrecked and the truck was damaged but not beyond repair. The truck will be back on track at Dover.

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