Bobby Labonte - Biography

Last Editor: jonathaneuphonium				Bobby Labonte Biography -   Name : Bobby Labonte Profession : Car Racer Birth Details : born May 8, 1964

Bobby Labonte Trivia -

2000 Nascar Winston Cup Series Champion. Brother of 2-time Nascar Winston Cup Series Champion Terry Labonte. 1991 Nascar Busch Series Champion. Uncle of Nascar driver Justin Labonte. Winner of the 2000 Brickyard 400.

Bobby Labonte Detailed Biography -

Born: May 8, 1964 Birthplace: Corpus Christi, Texas Awards: 2000 Winston Cup Champion 1991 Busch Champion NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Statistics Car #, Team 43 - Petty Enterprises 2005 NEXTEL Cup Position: 24th Best Cup Position: 1st - 2000 (Winston Cup) First Race: 1991 Budweiser 500 (Dover) First Win: 1995 Coca-Cola 600 (Lowe's) Last Win: 2003 Ford 400 (Homestead) Wins Top Tens Poles 21 184 26 All stats current as of November 29, 2005. Bobby Labonte Bobby Labonte's car on display at the Joe Gibbs Racing headquarters. Robert Alan Labonte (born May 8, 1964) is an American driver and drives for the Petty Enterprises NASCAR Racing Team in the Nextel Cup Series. His car, number 43, is sponsored by Cheerios and Betty Crocker. The 43 car was made famous by driver Richard Petty, but prior to Labonte signing with Petty Enterprise to drive, the 43 team had fallen on hard times with no race victories since 1999. Labonte was the first driver to win both the NASCAR Winston Cup championship (2000) and the NASCAR Busch Series championship (1991). He also won the IROC (International Race Of Champions) title in 2001. From 1995 to 2005, Labonte drove for the Joe Gibbs Racing Team where his car, number 18, was sponsored by Interstate Batteries. In 1993 (his rookie season) and 1994, he drove the number 22 Maxwell House car for Bill Davis Racing. Bobby was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. His older brother, Terry, is also a prominent NASCAR driver; the two are the only brothers to have both won the championship in NASCAR's top series (the other family pairs to have titles, Lee and Richard Petty and Ned and Dale Jarrett, are father-son combinations). Below is a list of all of the different NASCAR teams for which Bobby Labonte has driven at the Winston/Nextel Cup level, and the companies who sponsored him in each year. Teams Bobby Labonte Racing- 1991 Bill Davis Racing 1993-1994 Joe Gibbs Racing 1995-2005 Petty Enterprises 2006-Present Sponsors Slim Jim- 1991 (Busch Series) Maxwell House- 1993-1994 Interstate Batteries- 1995-2005 Cheerios/Betty Crocker- 2006-Present