Robert Alan Labonte was born on May 8, 1964 was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Bobby Labonte as he is fondly established as, grew up watching his older brother, Terry Labonte, racing and he confident early on that he wanted to be honorable conforming him. By the date he was five, Labonte was already racing in quarter-midgets. He won his inceptive quarter-midget championship when he was lone seven oldness ancient and spent most of his pre-teen second childhood sweeping the competition in races throughout the country. He was a strength to be reckoned with and did not play a idiot on the tracks. In 1978, the Labonte family moved to North Carolina to buck up his older brother's vitality on the track.

Labonte went on to compose his Busch Series debut in 1982 with a 30th spot finish. He worked his course up to the driver's seat by front lifetime the fabricator on his older brother's crew troupe once he graduated from Trinity Gigantic School. Although he did fling outside a fluctuation of divisions, Labonte went back to racing in the Busch Series in 1985. Still though he solitary finished 30th on his cardinal chase back, he bounced back and clinched the 17th spot in the following race. He went on to gold his elementary perch position in the alongside season and came in moment at Course of action Atlanta.

In 1987, Labonte won 12 races in the late-model inventory cars division at Caraway Speedway. The Beside season, he won six times at Harmony Motorsports Field and after running six extended Busch Series races, he came in at 16th. He managed to bring household two top tens, and had his anterior top-five stop at North Carolina Speedway. Labonte announced in 1990 that he was going to pursuit full-time in the Busch Series. He won two poles, six top-fives and ten-top tens with a fourth deposit standing and the Busch Series "Most Universal Driver" award.

In 1991, Labonte won the NASCAR Busch series championship with his two wins, ten top-five and 21 top-ten finishes. The year picked up when he won at Bristol and at Indianapolis Raceway Park. He too managed to participate in two Winston mug starts with a 34th and 38th finish. In the attached season, he won three races at the Busch Series at Lanier, Hickory and Martinsville although he unfortunately astray the reputation to Joe Nemechek by three points which is so far the adjacent finish in Dash Cup, Nationwide and the Craftsman Motor lorry Series.

In his rookie season of the Winston Cup Series, Labonte managed to pick up one top-five, two top-tens and 19th finish in spots. He was extremely runner-up to the Rookie of the Year title. He went on to dawn in two exceeding Busch Series with a pole killing and a 2nd and 24th settle finish respectively. In 1994, Labonte added another pride to his exaltation when his own driver, David Leafy won the Busch Series championship for the Bobby Labonte Racing. He went on to contest full-time in the Winston cup with one top-five and two top-ten and a 31st lay finish.

Labonte went on in 1995 to pick up his headmost duration sweep at the Coca Cola 600, the season final competition at Atlanta in 1996 where his older brother won the championship and in 1997 he won the season ending at Atlanta again. His 7th spot was the blessing finish in his lifetime during that time. He went on to kill five Winston Cup races in 1999 nevertheless in that season he had to persevere buttoned up a broken shoulder. The close year, he won 4 races at Darlington, Charlotte and Pocono. In 2007 Labonte won twice at the Pocono and at Atlanta. His coterminous gain took habitat Martinsville in 2002 which was his head calling gunfire track there. He managed to scrap on ice at eighth city in 2003 on standings with another 2 races at Atlanta and Homestead. He however, hit a dry spell in 2004 with no winnings at all and not yet digression in 2005. He did participate in the 24 hours of Daytona pathway relay his brother Terry, January Magnussen and Bryan Herta. 2006 and 2007 proved to be greater seasons for Labonte with a windfall success at Martinsville Speedway, a miraculous 21st spot finish at the Daytona 500 in 2007 (which had a plenty of accidents), the Busch Series slam at Talladega Speedway which was his early Busch Series achievement owing to 1998.