Terry-Eyed Farewell (Part 2)

Today we continue our look back at the career of Texas Terry Labonte.

1990--Terry runs the year with Richard Jackson, after a plan to start his own team falls through. Thankfully this scared off numerous drivers from starting their own teams...for about three years.

1993--Terry is joined on the Nextel Cup level by brother Bobby, who promptly goes on to wreck about 20 of Bill Davis' cars.

1994--Terry Labonte joins Hendrick Motorsports. While the move would revitalize his career, he remained secretly disappointed that they never let him drive the green #51 "City Chevy".

1995--Terry's identity changes from "consistent driver who raced with drive and class" to "Jeff Gordon's teammate".

1996--Terry wins his second Winston Cup Championship, netting him the traditional winner's garish leather jacket. Brother Bobby wins the race, stealing some of the spotlight and enraging older brothers everywhere.

1997--Terry wins one race in his title defense, at Talladega. To give you an idea of the wrecks that destroyed that race, Steve Grissom had a legitimate shot to win.

2000--Terry ends his consecutive races streak after an inner-ear infection sidelines him at the Brickyard. Doctors refused to clear him to race, giving him a "white guy dancing" level of equilibrium.

2002--Terry wonders why the tiger on the hood of his car keeps asking everyone if they have an adequate supply of milk.

2003--Terry returns to victory lane at Darlington. Thankfully NBC was covering this race, as if it had been on Fox, we'd have had Darrell Waltrip interrupting to compliment "...Mikey on a fine 15th place run".

2005--Terry begins his "Shifting Gears" retirement run with a partial schedule. Guarenteed of making every race with his Champions Provisional, he becomes the bane of field fillers everywhere.

2006--Terry nearly wins at Infineon, fulfilling a childhood dream of contending through his final season of racing. Whether he also wanted to be racing an LCD techonologies-sponored car at a race track sponsored by an IT firm remains to be seen.