In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

By 1990, Labonte had finally earned enough money to race in the Busch Series full-time.

Labonte was introduced to the sport through his father, who had worked on race cars as a hobby for his friends.

While he had ten top-tens, for the first time in his career, Labonte failed to finish a race in the top-five and he dropped to eighteenth in points.

Despite a win at his home track at Texas Motor Speedway and Sprint All-Star Race XV in 1999, Labonte finished 12th in the championship points, the first time he had finished outside the top-ten since 1993.

During the race weekend at Kansas in 2006, Harvick announced he had removed Lamar from the # 77 and hired 2000 Winston Cup champion Bobby Labonte to drive the car for the rest of the season.

The current 18 car came under Gibbs control when he purchased the # 44 Shell Oil Pontiac from Labonte, who had been operating the team under his control.

Josh Wise had two top 10 finishes, while Justin Labonte finished a season best 12th.

On July 10, 2009, the team announced they had signed Terry Labonte and he would share driving duties with Boris Said.

After the race, Waltrip, who had been watching Labonte and not seen Bouchard pass him, asked, " Where the hell did he come from?

He scored what many considered the two most exciting wins of the year – winning by. 006 seconds over Bobby Labonte at Atlanta, then gaining seventeen positions in the final four laps to win at Talladega, claiming his only No Bull million dollar bonus.

During that race Jimmie Johnson slid past Bobby Labonte in turn four on the final lap, claiming the checkered flag.

Yeley drove four races, Labonte and Hamlin drove the final seven.

Green stayed with Labonte Racing and won four more poles in 1995, but dropped to twelfth in points.

Despite new sponsorship from Vigoro and The Home Depot, the team decided to run a part-time schedule in 2004, with Labonte returning for two races and J. J. Yeley running seventeen races, garnering four top-ten finishes.

joined car owner Rod Osterlund Racing, in a season that included a rookie class of future stars – Earnhardt, Harry Gant and Terry Labonte.

Earnhardt did not win again in 1996, but still finished 4th in the standings behind Terry Labonte, Jeff Gordon and Dale Jarrett.

Earnhardt made it to the to the caution checkered flag before Bobby Labonte.

His spin put Earnhardt in the lead with 5 cars between him and Labonte with 5 laps to go.

Labonte caught Earnhardt and passed him coming to the white flag, but Earnhardt drove hard into turn two, bumping Labonte and spinning him around.

However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.

At Talladega Labonte finished 10th place, and at one point was running second in that race to Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

In September 2002, Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran ( and won in ) a special Gossamer paint scheme at Richmond International Raceway during the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 weekend in which he and his brother Kerry ran Looney Tunes cars ( Kerry ran a Yosemite Sam car, who was also on Mike Skinner's Winston Cup car the next night ) in the Busch Series race, and nine drivers ( Skinner, Terry Labonte, Jeff Gordon crashed his Bugs Bunny car in final practice for the race and, therefore, the Bugs car never saw race action, Joe Nemechek, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Green, Robby Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, and Greg Biffle place of Bobby Hamilton, who was injured in a Truck Series race two days before ran Looney Tunes paint schemes.

Many famous athletes have been featured in the series, including Rob Ray, Andre Agassi, Ray Allen, Michael Andretti, Carmelo Anthony, Gilbert Arenas, Lance Armstrong, Paul Bearer, Rich Beem, Drew Bledsoe, King Kong Bundy, Bill Bradley, Drew Brees, Kobe Bryant, Mark Buehrle, Kurt Busch, Jennifer Capriati, Brandi Chastain, Chris Chelios, Roger Clemens ( who was in 5 of them, the most of any athlete ), Sidney Crosby, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Carl Edwards, Roger Federer, Kevin Garnett, Ozzie Guillén, Mia Hamm, Jim Harbaugh, Evander Holyfield, Tim Hudson, LeBron James, Keyshawn Johnson, Roy Jones Jr., Jim Kelly, Alexi Lalas, Bobby Labonte, Lennox Lewis, Mark McGwire, Shawn Micheals, Gheorghe Muresan, Dwyane Wade, Steve Nash, Candace Parker, Chris Paul, Gaylord Perry, Adrian Peterson, Michael Phelps, Mary Lou Retton, Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo, Pete Sampras, Maria Sharapova, Andriy Shevchenko, Jerry Stackhouse, Kerri Strug, Fernando Vargas, Adam Vinatieri, Shaun White, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Tiger Woods, David Wright, Alexander Ovechkin, and The Undertaker.

1995 was a dramatic affair as the lead changed 32 times, the most since 1988, and the battle for the lead became a spirited multilap affair between Bobby Labonte, Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, and Sterling Marlin.

Labonte punted Earnhardt out of the lead late in the race and sweated out late green-flag stops for fuel to take the win, his first in Winston Cup.

In 1994, Labonte joined Hendrick Motorsports, racing the # 5 Kellogg's Chevrolet and responded by notching 3 wins in each of his first two years there, including a famous win at Bristol in 1995, where the front of his car was wrecked after Dale Earnhardt Sr. crashed into him in the final lap.

He competed for the Rookie of the Year against Dale Earnhardt and Terry Labonte.

Instead it was said at Bristol on August 28, 1999 after Earnhardt spun out Terry Labonte on the final lap to win the race.

In addition, he was selected to participate in the IROC series during 1999 where he competed against other top-named drivers including NASCAR drivers Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte and Dale Earnhardt.

Dale Earnhardt grabbed the lead late and got into a spirited battle with Bobby Labonte before Labonte cleared for the win.

In February 2010, Killswitch Engage announced that vocalist Howard Jones would not be performing with Killswitch Engage during their winter tour with The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Tranquillity ; during the time, All That Remains vocalist Philip Labonte was substituting for Jones until he could return.

Labonte was born on May 8, 1964 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

In 1993, Labonte was called up by Bill Davis Racing to drive in the Winston Cup Series.

It was the second championship, and fifth top-five points finish in five years for Bobby Labonte Racing.

The two took a victory lap together in what Labonte said was one of the most emotional and memorable moments of his life.

In December of that year, Labonte was released from Petty Enterprises while the team was negotiating with Gillett Evernham Motorsports about a possible merger.

On January 13, 2009, Labonte was confirmed to be the driver of the # 96 Ford Fusion for Hall of Fame Racing, now in a partnership with Yates Racing.

With eleven races remaining in the 2009 season, Labonte was replaced for Erik Darnell for 7 of the final eleven races due to sponsorship problems with the # 96.

Labonte found a ride with TRG ( The Racers Group ) Motorsports and its 71 for the 7 races he was out of the 96.

For 2010, Labonte was also reunited with Doug Randolph as his crew chief.

For much of the race Labonte was a Top 25 car.

On June 22, 2010 it was announced that Labonte would be leaving the # 71 due to team being unable to secure sponsorship.

On June 23, Labonte was hired to drive car # 7 for Robby Gordon Motorsports at New Hampshire in a one race deal.

This time, he was racing for Joe Gibbs, NFL Hall of Fame head coach of the Washington Redskins who was having major success with driver Bobby Labonte in Winston Cup.

Automatic bids went to the top 25 in series points ( every driver from eventual series champion Tony Stewart to 25th place Brian Vickers ), as well as any Daytona race winner who was not otherwise qualified and who competed in at least one race in 2011 ( which will enable Bill Elliott, Geoff Bodine, Derrike Cope, Michael Waltrip, Jamie McMurray, Trevor Bayne, Terry Labonte, and Ken Schrader to make the race if they decide to run ).

Though shifting was criticized by some drivers ( Rusty Wallace stated it took away from ability to pass cars while Terry Labonte pointedly called it " a pain in the butt ") and some called for the Jerico to be banned on ovals, the practice continued until 2005 when a new gear rule eliminated the effectiveness of shifting.

Martin was about to lap Bobby Labonte and Juan Pablo Montoya when Labonte's car got loose, collecting Martin and Kasey Kahne.