46 Facts About Terry Labonte

Terry Labonte raced from 1978 to 2014 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup and Sprint Cup Series.

Terry Labonte appeared on the CBS series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1984, where he played an unnamed pit crew member.

Terry Labonte was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1956.

Terry Labonte was introduced to racing at an early age through his father, who had worked on race cars as a hobby for his friends.

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

Terry Labonte ran four more races that season and had an additional two Top 10 finishes.

Terry Labonte ended the season with 13 Top 10 finishes.

Terry Labonte won $222,501 in prize money for the year and finished eighth in the final points standings.

Terry Labonte failed to return to victory lane over the next two years but didn't finish outside the Top 5 in the final standings.

Terry Labonte won his second career race in 1983 in the Budweiser-sponsored Chevrolet.

Terry Labonte dropped to seventh in the final points in 1985.

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

Terry Labonte fell back to twelfth in the standings in 1986.

Terry Labonte followed that up with a fourth-place points finish in 1988, as well as The Winston.

Terry Labonte had four Top 5s and nine Top 10s and finished 15th in the points standings.

Terry Labonte came back to Hagan Racing to drive the No 94 Sunoco-sponsored Oldsmobile in 1991, winning his first pole since 1988.

Terry Labonte began 1992 with finishes inside the Top 8 in each of the first eight races.

Terry Labonte had a total of four Top 5 finishes and 16 Top 10 finishes, ending the season eighth in points.

On July 1,1993, it was announced that Terry Labonte would be leaving Hagan Racing following 1993 to drive for Hendrick Motorsports in 1994.

In 1995, the team switched to Chevrolet Monte Carlos and won three races including the fall Goody's 500 event at Bristol, where the front of Terry Labonte's car was wrecked after Dale Earnhardt crashed into him in the final lap.

Terry Labonte posted 20 Top 10 finishes in 1997 and collected his only win of the season at the fall race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Terry Labonte shaved his mustache off in 1999, where his most famous race was the 1999 Goody's Headache Powder 500 at Bristol.

Terry Labonte was involved in one of the most infamous and controversial NASCAR finishes ever, when he was spun out by a lapped Dale Jarrett while leading with ten laps to go when he slowed the field under caution.

Terry Labonte pitted for four tires and quickly recovered and was leading with one lap remaining.

The 2000 season saw Terry Labonte's consecutive start streak broken at 655 after he suffered inner ear injuries in the Pepsi 400 and was forced to miss the Brickyard 400 and the Global Crossing @ The Glen.

Terry Labonte began 2001 with two Top 6 finishes in the first seven races but finished 23rd in point.

Terry Labonte dropped back to 24th in 2002 with one Top 5 finish and four Top 10's.

In 2003, Terry Labonte won his first pole since 2000 at Richmond and won the Mountain Dew Southern 500 where 23 years earlier he won his first in 1980 at Darlington Raceway after leading the last 33 laps.

Late in the 2004-season, Terry Labonte announced that 2004 would be his final full-time year on the circuit and would run part-time schedules for the next two years.

Terry Labonte borrowed the number 44, his former number, from Petty Enterprises and ran Hendrick's No 44 research and development car with some sponsorships from Kellogg's, Pizza Hut, and GMAC.

Terry Labonte ran ten races with Hendrick Motorsports research and development car No 44 in 2006.

Terry Labonte drove five races in the No 11 FedEx-sponsored Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing following the release of Jason Leffler, with a top finish of ninth at Richmond.

On May 11,2008, it was announced that Terry Labonte would drive the No 45 car of Petty Enterprises for six races in the middle of the 2008 Sprint Cup season, replacing Kyle Petty on a temporary basis.

Terry Labonte was reunited with brother Bobby, who was the regular driver of the No 43 for Petty.

Terry Labonte would be back in the No 45 car again for the AMP Energy 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway for the final time in the 2008 Sprint Cup Season.

Terry Labonte would go on to post a seventeenth-place finish, even after sustaining severe damage in one of the multi-car accidents.

Terry Labonte managed to get his lap back and fought up to finish twenty-fourth in the rain-shortened event.

At the time, Terry Labonte was semi-retired, but competed in seven additional races over the course of the year in the No 32.

Terry Labonte led the 2012 Daytona 500 briefly before being spun by Marcos Ambrose.

In 2013, Terry Labonte would run five races for FAS Lane Racing, posting a best finish of nineteenth.

Terry Labonte ran as high as sixth in the Daytona 500 before being swept up in a late crash and finishing twentieth.

Terry Labonte won the IROC championship in 1989 with one win, and assisted the late Davey Allison to the 1993 IROC championship by driving his car to a 6th-place finish in the final race of the season.

Terry Labonte collected class wins at the two most prestigious endurance races in the United States, the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring, driving a GTO-class Chevrolet Camaro during the 1984 IMSA GT Championship season.

On February 21,2014, Terry Labonte was nominated for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2015, along with 19 other candidates.

On January 26,2017 Terry Labonte was named to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.

In 1998, the senior Terry Labonte was named as one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.