Robert Alan Labonte (born May 8, 1964) is an American race car driver and drives the #43 Cheerios Dodge Charger for the Petty Enterprises NASCAR Racing Team in the Nextel Cup Series and the #77 Dollar General Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the Busch Series for Kevin Harvick Incorporated. During the mid-1990s, he was diagnosed with Graves Disease.
As of 2007, Labonte is the only driver to win both the NASCAR Winston Cup championship (2000) and the NASCAR Busch Series championship (1991). He also won the IROC title in 2001.
Labonte was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He currently resides in Trinity, North Carolina. His older brother, Terry Labonte, was also a prominent NASCAR driver, until he retired at the end of the 2006 season; 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). He is also the uncle of former Busch Series winner Justin Labonte.
He began racing in 1969 in quarter midgets in his homestate of Texas, winning his first feature race one year later. From then until 1977, he drove in quarter-midgets throughout the United States, winning many races. In 1978, he advanced to the go-kart ranks, but moved to North Carolina with his family following Terry's advancement to the Cup series. After competing in several different divisions, Labonte made his Busch Series debut in 198 at Martinsville Speedway, finishing 30th. Following his graduation from Trinity High School, he worked as a fabricator on Terry's cars at Hagan Racing. After 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, his best finish was a seventeenth. The next season, 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 following season, he competed at Concord Motorsports Park, winning six times, and ran six more Busch races, finishing 16th at Darlington Raceway. The next season, he ran seven races and had his first top-five finish at North Carolina Speedway. He had two more top-tens that year.
Picture is Bobby Labonte's #43 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup car at Texas Motor Speedway, April 14, 2007 at 12:22 by Bo Nash from Arlington, TX. This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License
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