Bobby Labonte Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Bobby Labonte: When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Trivia

Bobby made his Busch Series debut in 1982.

Bobby has 26 Poles.

Bobby only had one win in 2002.

When he was young he first started racing in quarter midgets.

He is the uncle of a former Busch Series winner Justin Labonte.

He's the only driver to win both the NASCAR Winston Cup championship and the NASCAR Busch Series championship.

Bobby began racing in 1969 around the age of five.

He won the Busch series race at Talladega Speedway in April 2007, just beating Tony Stewart, and it was his first Busch series win since 1998.

He's won three NASCAR Cup races at Pocono Raceway, including both races in 1999.

Finished 21st in the final point standings in his first year with Petty Enterprises.

Is eight years younger than his brother Terry.

His brother Terry finished second to him when he got his first career NASCAR Nextel Cup victory.

Currently has 21 career NASCAR Nextel Cup victories.

Bobby got his first career Nextel Cup victory in the 1995 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

In 2005 Bobby parted ways with his long time car owner Joe Gibbs.

Bobby has never won the Daytona 500 to this day, but he did finish second to Dale Earnhardt in the 1998 version of The Great American Race.

Ran for Winston Cup (now known as Nextel Cup) Rookie of the Year in 1993, and finished second to Jeff Gordon.