NASCAR Rookie Standings 2007

2007 Busch Series RotY standings

1. David Ragan (#6) – 199 points
2. Marcos Ambrose (#59) – 181 points
3. Juan Pablo Montoya (#??) – 165 points
4. Kyle Krisiloff (#14) – 164 points
5. Brad Coleman (#18) – 121 points
6. Brad Keselowski (#88) – 118 points
7. Robert Richardson (#28) – 84 points
8. Justin Diercks (#??) – 51 points
9. Sam Hornish, Jr. (#12) – 35 points
10. Timothy Peters (#??) – 27 points
11. Bobby Santos III (#91) – 21 points
12. Brian Conz (#??) – 0 points

2007 Truck Series Rookie Standings

1. Tim Sauter (#07)– 123 points
2. Aaron Fike (#??)– 122 points
3. Willie Allen (#13)– 115 points
4. Blake Bjorklund (#8)– 110 points
5. Joey Clanton (#09)– 91 points
6. Jason White (#7)– 77 points
7. Tyler Walker (#??)– 51 points
8. Kelly Bires (#??)– 49 points
9. Peter Shepherd (#50)– 32 points
10. Kevin Hamlin (#4)– 26 points
11. Casey Kingsland (#??)– 5 points
12. Brian Sockwell (#54)– 1 point

Reed Sorenson, #41 Juicy Fruit car rider

Bradley Reed Sorenson currently drives the #41 Target Dodge Charger in the NEXTEL Cup and the #41 Wrigley's Dodge in the Busch Series for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Sorenson's career started at age six when he began racing quarter-midgets. He won the national championship in 1997. He moved up to Legends cars the following year, winning 13 out of 25 races, southeastern championships and breaking track records in the process. 1999 would turn out to be a better year as he won 30 out of the 50 races he competed in. He raced in Legends for the next two years and won 84 events.
Sorenson got his first career pole on July 28, 2007, during qualifying for the Allstate 400. Sorenson also became the youngest pole winner ever at Indianapolis Motor Speedway; at 21 years, 173 days old. He broke a record that stood for 72 years. Held by Rex Mays, who won the pole for the Indianapolis 500 in 1935 at 22 years of age. Sorenson ended up leading 16 laps, and finishing in the 5th place, behind race winner, Tony Stewart.

Jeffrey Earnhardt

Jeffrey Earnhardt (born June 22, 1989 in Mooresville, North Carolina) is the next to oldest grandson of the late seven time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt. He is the son of former NASCAR driver Kerry Earnhardt. Jeffrey was signed in 2007 to drive for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated (DEI) in the Busch East Racing Series.

Earnhardt's first race came in the Hornet Division at Wythe Raceway in Rural Retreat, Virginia. He scored 3 feature wins and finished in the top 5 in division points, winning Rookie of the Year. The following year he moved up to the Sportsman division at the Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, Virginia, finishing the season in the top 10 of the division standings. He also competed in the late model season finale at the track as a teammate to RCR developmental driver Allison Duncan.

In 2006, General Motors created a driver developmental search program wherein they looked for who they believed to be the stars of the future and invited them to test a late model and a Busch car at 2 different tracks with the best moving on. Jeffery made the final cut, and in January of 2007 it was announced that Earnhardt would be joining the family business, driving a #1 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Busch East Series for the entire 2007 season. He will also compete in the Bailey's 300, an all-star late model race at Martinsville Speedway.

For 2008 Espn has reported that Earnhardt will drive 8 races for DEI in the Busch Series in 2008 ,therefore by maintaining his rookie status in that series and contiune running Busch East.from ESPN

Martin Lee Truex, Jr.

Martin Lee Truex, Jr. (born June 29, 1980 in Mayetta, New Jersey) is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver. He currently drives the #1 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.. Truex won the Busch Series Championship in 2004 and 2005.

Truex's father, Martin Sr., was a former champion in the Busch North Series and a successful modified driver. The younger Truex began racing in the Busch North series in 2000, and won 3 races in 3 years with a family owned team.

Truex rented a home from Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in Mooresville, North Carolina, before he purchased his own home. His cousin, Curtis Truex, Jr., races modifieds at Wall Township Speedway and currently drives late-model stock cars in the southeatern U.S. for JR Motorsports, which is owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr..

Truex made his Busch Series start in 2001 at Dover International Speedway in his father's #56 XST Paintable Silicon Chevy. He started 19th but finished 38th after an early wreck. In 2002, Truex drove one race for Phoenix Racing at New Hampshire International Speedway, starting thirteenth but finishing 29th. He ran three races the rest of that season for his father, his best finish seveneenth at Dover.

Kyle Busch

Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American race car driver. Currently, he drives the #5 Kellogg's/CARQUEST Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series as well as the #5 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Busch Series. He grew up racing at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He is often nicknamed Shrub, since he is the younger brother of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch and a small bush is called a shrub.

At 16, Busch competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for Roush Racing as a replacement after the team's two drivers were released midway in the 2001 season, and earned two top-10 finishes in six starts what was scheduled to be a full-season campaign for 2002. (In 2000, NASCAR rules changed to permit a driver to make up to seven starts -- up from five -- in a season before becoming a full-time driver for rookie status.)

Busch was the fastest in practice for a 2001 Craftsman Truck Series race at California Speedway in Fontana, CA, when he was ejected from the track by CART officials because the American Racing Wheels 200 was part of a CART weekend featuring the Marlboro 500 CART FedEx Championship Series event. Marlboro threw Busch out of the garage because of an interpretation of the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998, prohibiting persons under 18 years of age in participating in events sponsored by tobacco companies. (In 2006, Marlboro ejected Grand-Am Daytona Prototype driver Colin Braun, 17, from three sportscar races held in conjunction with the Indy Racing League because they have an IRL sponsorship.)

Six weeks after the incident, NASCAR imposed a minimum age of 18 years starting in 2002 to prevent future incidents from happening again, because Winston was the premier series sponsor. (For 2007, the rule has changed; Grand National (Busch East and AutoZone West) and Whelen Modified (North and South) Tours will now permit drivers as young as 16 to enter the races.)

When the age requirements were put in place, Busch switched from NASCAR to the American Speed Association (ASA) series, a Midwest based company that also aided in his success; in the 2002 season, Busch finished eighth in the championship points for the ASA series.

Busch ran 1 race in 2004 for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports in their #47 Acxiom Chevrolet Silverado.

Busch returned to the Craftsman Truck Series in 2005 for a limited number of races in Billy Ballew Motorsports's Chevrolet's, winning at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Dover International Speedway, and the fall race in Atlanta Motor Speedway, all 200-mile races. Busch became the youngest driver to win a Truck Series race, at 20 years 19 days.

Busch repeated his Lowe's victory in 2006 in a truck painted to resemble the Rowdy Burns car from Days of Thunder, in a tribute to Bobby Hamilton (who was the stunt driver for the character), who was in the midst of a cancer battle which would later take his life.