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!

He and his older brother, Terry Labonte, are the only brothers to have both won the Cup series championship.

As of 2011, Labonte is the only driver to have won both the Winston Cup championship ( 2000 ) and the Busch Series championship ( 1991 ).

The next season, running his own Bobby Labonte Racing car, he won his first Busch pole position and finished second at Road Atlanta.

In 1987, Labonte won twelve races at Caraway Speedway, clinching the track championship, in addition to working for Jay Hedgecock.

The next season, 1994, Labonte achieved his second major success as a car owner when his Busch Series driver, David Green, won the championship.

In 1999, Labonte won five Winston Cup races, the most he has ever won in a single season.

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.

However, he fell to sixth place in the standings because of a handful of ( Did Not Finish ) DNFs and an increase in the number of competitive drivers, among them his teammate Labonte, who won the Cup championship.

After retiring at the end of the 1992 season, he switched focus to his NASCAR team, Joe Gibbs Racing, which has won three championships under his ownership, one with former driver Bobby Labonte and two with Tony Stewart.

He also won the Coca-Cola 600 and the Brickyard 400 and finished third in the final standings behind the Hendrick Motorsports teammates Terry Labonte and Jeff Gordon.

( Which made him miss the exhibition race in Japan ) After an offseason surgery, Jarrett returned in 1999 and took the points lead after his first win of the season at the Pontiac Excitement 400, and held it for the rest of the season, when he won his first career Winston Cup title by 201 points over Bobby Labonte.

Terry Labonte started racing quarter-midgets when he was 7 and won a national championship at nine before moving onto the local short tracks in a stock car as a teenager.

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.

Slim Jim sponsored Bobby Labonte and David Green when they won the NASCAR Busch Series championship in 1991 and 1994, respectively.

* The last time a winning driver totally lapped the field on the way to the win was October 1994 at North Wilkesboro Speedway, NC when Geoffrey Bodine won, completing 400 laps while 2nd place was Terry Labonte who completed 399.

Labonte won one race each of the next three seasons.

Patti is married to Jimmy Makar, who worked with Dale Jarrett for three years at Joe Gibbs Racing, and won the 2000 championship crew chief with Bobby Labonte.

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

Jarrett won a race at Charlotte but he slipped to 16th in points in 1994 which led to Bobby Labonte taking over the next season.

In 1995 Labonte won 3 races, sweeping Michigan and winning at Charlotte and finishing 10th in points started a decade of success between Labonte and Joe Gibbs Racing.

In 2008, Labonte continued his contract with Petty Enterprises, but experienced a largely unsuccessful season, gathering only three top-tens and no top-fives on his way to finishing 21st in the Sprint Cup standings.

Although Labonte failed to win the top rookie award, he was one of three rookies to finish in the top 10 in points.

In 1992, Nemechek got full-time sponsorship from Texas Pete sauce, and got his first two career wins and defeated Bobby Labonte for the championship by three points.

Labonte also returned to the Busch Series in 2002, attempting but failing to qualify for three races in the # 04 Victory Junction Gang Dodge for Kerry Scherer.

Labonte ran seven races that year, with three top-tens.

In 1992, Labonte won three races but lost the championship by three points.

After a few years of racing in various divisions, Labonte returned to the Busch Series in 1985, running two races in a car he owned himself at Martinsville.

Labonte # 43 races to the end of pit lane in 2006

In 2003, Labonte rebounded and finished 8th in the standings after winning 2 races ( Atlanta and Homestead only the final lap ).

Ask. com sponsored the car for most races in 2009, In the 2009 Spring Las Vegas race, the Shelby 427, Labonte recorded his first top 5 with Hall of Fame racing, and his best finish since he finished third in the Fall Martinsville race in 2006.

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.

Two races later Labonte gave TRG its best qualifying effort with a 8th place start, Labonte came home 22nd.

Labonte would end up fading back over the next few races, as he and the team would struggle for consistency.

* 1999: Bobby Labonte sweeps both races at Pocono.

Waltrip asked Labonte to drive after deciding to focus his driving his priorities solely to Winston Cup racing during the middle of what would be Waltrip's 307-point gain over Bill Elliott in the final eight races of the 1985 season.

He was replaced by Terry Labonte for the two road-course races and, eventually, was fired from JGR after 19 starts in which he failed to record a top ten finish.

After an accident at New Hampshire damaged his inner ear, Labonte was not capable of driving, and he ended up missing two races, bringing his streak of most consecutive races to an abrupt end.

After the departure of Jason Leffler, who drove the # 11 car in the Nextel Cup series, Yeley, Busch Series teammate Denny Hamlin, and Terry Labonte split the remaining races.

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

Craven finished in the top-five in the first two races of the seasonl He finished 3rd in the 1997 Daytona 500 behind his teammates Terry Labonte in 2nd and Jeff Gordon in 1st giving Hendrick Motorsports a 1-2-3 sweep of the Daytona 500.

Sprint Cup Series teams who are near the bottom of the top 35 in owner points hire a ringer or adept former competitor like Terry Labonte to ensure that they remain in top 35 to keep a guaranteed starting spot in future races.