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is a retired NASCAR driver who drove in the Monster Cup Series and is a two-time NASCAR Winston Cup and IROC champion. He last drove the #32 U.S. Chrome Ford for FAS Lane Racing in the Cup Series. Labonte’s first NASCAR start came in 1978 at Darlington Raceway. He qualified nineteenth in the #92 Duck Industries Chevrolet and finished fourth that weekend. He ran four more races that season and had an additional two top-ten finishes. In 1979, he competed for NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year along with Dale Earnhardt, Harry Gant, and Joe Millikan while driving the #44 Stratagraph Chevrolet for Hagan. Although Labonte failed to win the top rookie award, he was one of three rookies to finish in the top 10 in points. The following year, he won his first career Winston Cup race on Labor Day weekend at Darlington. Labonte failed to return to victory lane over

the next two years but did not finish outside the top-five in the final standings. He won his second career race in 1983 in the Budweiser Chevrolet. His team received sponsorship from Piedmont Airlines the following season, and clinched his first Winston Cup championship. He dropped to seventh in the points in 1985, and fell to 12th in the points chase in 1986. Before season's end, he announced he was leaving Hagan's team to drive the #11 Budweiser Chevrolet for Junior Johnson's team the next year. In his first season with his new team, he won the Holly Farms 400, leaping up to third in the final standings. He followed that up with a fourth-place points finish in 1988, including a win in Sprint All-Star Race IV. In 1994, Labonte joined

Hendrick Motorsports, racing the #5 Kellogg's Chevrolet and responded by notching three wins in each of his first two years there. In 1996, he broke Richard Petty’s streak for consecutive race starts after winning at North Wilkesboro. Despite only two victories, Labonte went on to win the championship that year as well, a record-setting twelve years after his first. Driving with a broken hand during the last two races of the season, Labonte and his younger brother Bobby were able to perform a dual victory lap at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the last race of the year; Bobby won the race and Terry the championship on the final day of the season, the only time a driver and his sibling won the race and the championship at the same time. The year 2000 saw Labonte's consecutive start streak broken at 655 after he suffered inner ear injuries at

the Pepsi 400 and was forced to miss the Brickyard 400. In 2003, Labonte won his final race to date when he won the Mountain Dew Southern 500 (where 23 years earlier he won his first race) at Darlington Raceway after leading the last 33 laps. Labonte announced that 2004 would be his final full-time year on the circuit and would run part-time schedules for the next two years. The schedule was nicknamed, "Shifting Gears: Lone Star Style." Labonte ran his last Cup race in 2014 driving for GoFas Racing. He

drove mostly the restrictor plate races at the end of his career. His brother Bobby took his place racing those races in 2015 & 2016. Terry final start was at Talladega where he started ninth; but had issues in the race and finished 33rd. He had one top five finish since 2004 (a third at the Sonoma road course in 2006) For his career he had 890 starts, with 22 wins. He was the Cup Series champ in 1984 and 1996. He was voted one of NASCAR's 50 greatest driver in 1998; and was inducted into NASCAR's Hall of Fame in 2016. Labonte also collected class wins at the two most prestigious endurance races in the United States, the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring, driving a GTO-class Chevrolet Camaro during the 1984 IMSA GT Championship season. A park was renamed for the Labonte brothers in their hometown of Corpus Christi in 2001, and

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TERRENCE LEE "TERRY" LABONTE - 11/16/1956