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Prism Motorsports' Terry Labonte looks to compete in 10 to 12 Cup races
By Lee Montgomery - Associate Editor
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Prism Motorsports' Terry Labonte will attempt to make the field for the 2009 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.
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CORNELIUS, N.C. – Two-time NASCAR Cup series champion Terry Labonte retired from driving full time in 2004, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to throw away his helmet.
Labonte has competed in 44 races in the four years since he retired, and he will attempt to make this year’s Daytona 500 in Prism Motorsports’ No. 66 Toyota.
So far, that’s Labonte’s only scheduled race this year, but things could change.
“I wouldn’t mind running eight or 10 or 12 races, something like that,” Labonte said. “It would depend who it was. I’ve got to know them. I had a blast last year. It was actually fun.”
After returning home from one race weekend last year, Kim Labonte, Terry’s wife, noticed that he had a skip in his step.
“I came home one day, and my wife said, ‘You really had fun, didn’t you?’” Labonte said. “I said, ‘Yeah, it was a blast.’ She said, ‘I could tell. You seem happy.’”
That came after a conversation earlier in the year where Kim told Terry that he needed to find a hobby to give him something to do while retired.
So Terry went and got one, a part-time ride with Petty Enterprises, teaming with younger brother Bobby. But he failed to tell Kim.
“Some friend read it [online] and called her,” Labonte said. “I didn’t tell her. She’s like, ‘Are you going to run some races?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ She said, ‘You are?’ I said, ‘Well, you told me I need to find a hobby.’”
Labonte insists he’s still retired from full-time competition, saying he doesn’t understand “why anybody would want to run every week.”
And while many drivers or other athletes continue to hang around after retirement, Labonte said he’s still driving simply because he’s having fun.
“I spent so many years of my life doing that,” Labonte said. “It’s hard to walk away and not still like the sport that you always really loved. That’s hard to do. You see other people in other sports. Lance Armstrong, for example. He was so successful, and now he’s going to attempt a comeback.
“People, whenever they love what they do, they have a hard time walking away from it. I never looked at it as a job. You hear so many people say, ‘Man, I can’t wait to retire. I hate this place.’ I never felt that way.
“And then I did retire, and that’s not all it’s cracked up to be. You sit at home, and it’s like, ‘What am I going to do this weekend?’ I about wore my wife out because we’d go somewhere every weekend. She said, ‘I’m staying home.’ It was a real adjustment period there for about a year. I’ve kind of got it figured out now.”
2009 Sprint Cup Race for the Chase Standings
Driver Standings after the AMP Energy 500
| 1 | Jimmie Johnson | 6248 |
| 2 | Mark Martin | -184 |
| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -192 |
| 4 | Juan Pablo Montoya | -239 |
| 5 | Tony Stewart | -279 |
| 6 | Kurt Busch | -312 |
| 7 | Greg Biffle | -340 |
| 8 | Ryan Newman | -402 |
| 9 | Kasey Kahne | -414 |
| 10 | Carl Edwards | -437 |
| 11 | Denny Hamlin | -448 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -556 |
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Pat Draper said:
Feb 5, 2009 at 2:07 PMTerry is still a good drive and well respected in the garage area and maybe he will get some more races as the season starts. I retired a couple of years ago and I know just how he feels. You want to be doing what you like and sometimes thats just going back to where you were. Good Luck Terry.
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Feb 5, 2009 at 10:54 PMI am still a big Terry Labonte fan and I hope he still get to run 10 or 12 races this year. Good Luck Terry PS I have been a Terry Labonte fan since 1983. He is one of the most humble men you will ever meet what you see on tv is the man.
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