Bobby Labonte Finished 8th this year in the Nascar Winston Cup series   

  The frustration got worse for Labonte in 2002. While he did win at Martinsville in April for his 19th Winston Cup victory, 10 finishes of 30th or worse and seven top-10 efforts in 36 starts relegated Labonte to a 16th-place finish in the standings. He also earned nearly $1 million less than he did a season ago.
Labonte's first career Winston Cup victory came in 1995 in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Later that year, he swept both races at Michigan. The No. 18 has won at least one race every year since. In the end, he fought back to sixth in the standings; but it took him until late July to win his first race of the season. He ended up with two wins, nine top-fives and 20 top-10s, which was well under his production of the previous year. He won one Bud Pole and earned $4,786,779.
Bobby Labonte began racing Quarter-Midgets in Texas in 1969, then graduated to karts in 1978. He began his Winston Cup career in 1984 as a crew member at Hagan Racing, where his brother Terry won the series championship. He went to work for car builder Jay Hedgecock in 1987 and also raced Late Model Stock Cars at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C., winning the track championship with 12 wins and seven poles in 23 races.

 Bobby Won his second Nascar Championship in 2000                                           

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