Andrew Lally (born on February 11, 1975, in Northport, New York) is an American race car driver and Street Luge racer. Although Lally won the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year, he is best known for his road racing expertise in the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series as well as the American Le Mans Series. In May 2010 Andy became only the second driver in the history of the Grand Am Rolex Series to make 100 starts, winning at Virginia International Raceway on April 24, 2010. In January 2012 Andy extended and broke records in the Grand Am Rolex Series by winning his fourth Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT class. Andy owns Grand Am records for most GT wins, most podiums and most top 5 finishes in Rolex Series history. With the Daytona win Lally has broken a tie with Scott Pruett for consecutive years with a race win (9) in Grand Am and the only driver in Grand Am history to win the 24 Hours of Daytona with three different teams.

Early career[link]

Lally began his career in karting, culminating with 2 WKA National Gold Cup Championships. Andy first got into sports cars in 1993 with his first sponsor Tyrolean Motors with car owner Walter Simendinger running SCCA regional events. In 1997 Lally won the US F2000 Rookie of the Year in his first full year in a professional series.

Road Racing[link]

This section requires expansion.

Lally is a 3 time Grand Am Rolex Series Champion. He holds series records for most all time top 3 and top 5 finishes and leads the all time GT class win list with 24 victories. In January 2011 Andy won the 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT class, giving him the record for most consecutive Grand Am Rolex seasons with at least one victory(8)2004-2011.^{[citation needed]}In January 2011 Andy finished first place in the GT class in the 24 Hours of Daytona giving him the most podium finishes of any driver at the famed 24 race (7) since the Grand Am Rolex series started in 2000. His victory at Daytona International Speedway on Jan 29, 2011 made him the all time winningest GT driver in the Grand Am Series.

On May 13, 2012, racing with the Magnus Racing team in the #44, Andy Lally yet again made history in sports car racing as he achieved his 100th podium finish at New Jersey Motorsports Park as he and his teammate John Potter finished the race in 3rd place.

Lally's prototype results include a 1st in class at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, 2nd in class at the Petit Le Mans, 3rd in Class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and a 2nd overall and in class at the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring.

NASCAR[link]

In 2007, Lally made his NASCAR debut in both the Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) and the Craftsman Truck Series (now Camping World Truck Series). Lally had one top ten finish in two starts with the #47 Wood Brothers/JTG Racing Ford Fusion and made three starts in the Craftsman Truck Series with TRG Motorsports, driving the #00 Toyota Tundra.^[1]

Lally also raced in the Inaugural ARCA New Jersey 150 at New Jersey Motorsports Park in September 2008. He was fastest in every practice session, started on the pole and led the most laps, but lost the race on pit strategy when the race was called due to weather with eventual series champion Justin Allgaier winning the race.

In 2009, he started 15th driving the #71 Chevrolet for TRG at Watkins Glen International. He ran as a teammate to David Gilliland, the usual driver of the #71, who unsuccessfully attempted to qualify in the #70. Lally finished a respectable 27th in his first Cup start after being involved in a crash with Sam Hornish Jr., Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton.

In 2010, Lally ran seven races for TRG, finishing 18th at Watkins Glen. On February 17, 2011, he filed paperwork to run the full Sprint Cup season and campaign for series Rookie of the Year honors (A driver may maintain his rookie eligibility provided he runs seven or fewer races in a season before declaring).^[2]

Running the full 2011 season for TRG Motorsports in the #71 and #77 cars, Lally clinched the 2011 Rookie of the Year honor in early September, his competitors for the honor, Brian Keselowski and T.J. Bell, having failed to make the minimum number of starts in the series to be eligible for the award.^[3]

2012[link]

After winning Sunoco Rookie of the Year in the Sprint Cup Series, Lally will return to sports car racing for the 2012 season with 30 races planned across three series. He will be driving in the Grand Am Rolex Series for Magnus Racing in the GT class. As well as a partial schedule in the ALMS and full schedule in the Continental Tire Series. ^[4]

Lally won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona GT division in a Magnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with co-drivers Richard Lietz, Rene Rast and team owner John Potter. It marked Lally's fourth Rolex 24 class win and second consecutive.

Personal Life[link]

Outside of Auto Racing, Lally also competes in cross-country mountain bike racing. In 2009 he was part of a four man team that won the 24 Hours of Big Bear in the Men's Sport division. Andy is also a Championship Streetluge racer and in 2009 he was #1 qualifier for both luge classes at the IGSA World Championships in Bathurst, Australia and went on to his win the World Championship in Classic luge and finish 2nd in Unlimited Luge. Lally also trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and is currently a Blue Belt.

Complete Sprint Cup Series results[link]

Note:This list does not include exhibition races. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

• ¹ – Post entry, driver and owner did not score points.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Andy Lally at Racing Reference
• Andy Lally on Twitter

Terrance Lee "Terry" Labonte
Terry Labonte (right) illustrating race car frame details
Born	(1956-11-16) November 16, 1956 (age 55) Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Achievements	1984, 1996 Winston Cup Series Champion 1993, 1989 IROC Champion 1988, 1999 The Winston Winner
Awards	NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers National Quarter Midget Hall of Fame inductee (1989)[1]
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
879 race(s) run over 35 year(s)
Car no., team	No. 32 (FAS Lane Racing)
2011 position	39th
Best finish	1st - 1984, 1996
First race	1978 Southern 500 (Darlington)
Last race	2012 Aaron's 499 (Talladega)
First win	1980 Southern 500 (Darlington)
Last win	2003 Mountain Dew Southern 500 (Darlington)
Wins Top tens Poles 22 361 27
NASCAR Nationwide Series career
124 race(s) run over 11 year(s)
Best finish	13th – 1996
First race	1985 Miller 400 (Charlotte)
Last race	2000 MBNA Platinum 200 (Dover)
First win	1985 Miller 400 (Charlotte)
Last win	1999 Touchstone Energy 300 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 11 68 4
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
3 race(s) run over 1 year(s)
Best finish	37th – 1995
First race	1995 Copper World Classic (Phoenix)
Last race	1995 FasMart Supertruck Shootout(Richmond)
First win	1995 FasMart Supertruck Shootout (Richmond)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 3 1
Statistics current as of May 6, 2012.

Terrance Lee Labonte (born November 16, 1956) is a semi-retired NASCAR driver who occasionally drives in the Sprint Cup Series when called upon and is a two-time Winston Cup and IROC champion. He currently drives the #32 U.S. Chrome Ford for FAS Lane Racing. Labonte was introduced to the sport through his father, who had worked on race cars as a hobby for his friends. He is the older brother of 2000 Winston Cup champion Bobby Labonte, and the father of former Nationwide Series driver Justin Labonte. Labonte was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He co-owns a Chevrolet dealership in North Carolina with Rick Hendrick.

Early life[link]

Terry Labonte started racing quarter-midgets when he was 7 and won a national championship at nine before moving onto the local short tracks in a stock car as a teenager. Driving on both dirt and asphalt, he won track championships in his hometown, in Houston, and in San Antonio from 1975 to 1977. During this time he also met Louisiana businessman Billy Hagan.

1978-1985[link]

Labonte’s first NASCAR start came in 1978 at Darlington Raceway. He qualified nineteenth in the #92 Duck Industries Chevrolet and finished fourth that weekend. He ran four more races that season and had an additional two top-ten finishes. In 1979, he competed for NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year along with Dale Earnhardt, Harry Gant, and Joe Millikan while driving the #44 Stratagraph Chevrolet for Hagan. Although Labonte failed to win the top rookie award, he was one of three rookies to finish in the top 10 in points. He ended the season with thirteen top-ten finishes. The following year, he won his first career Winston Cup race on Labor Day weekend at Darlington. He won $222,501 in prize money for the year and finished sixth in the final points.

1983 racecar

1985 racecar

Labonte failed to return to victory lane over the next two years but did not finish outside the top-five in the final standings. He won his second career race in 1983 in the Budweiser Chevrolet. His team received sponsorship from Piedmont Airlines the following season, and he won races at Riverside International Raceway and Bristol Motor Speedway, clinching his first Winston Cup championship. He dropped to seventh in the final points in 1985. During that same season, he made his Busch Series debut at Charlotte in the #17 Pontiac owned by Darrell Waltrip and won the 400-mile race, the longest in Busch Series history. Waltrip asked Labonte to drive after deciding to focus his driving his priorities solely to Winston Cup racing during the middle of what would be Waltrip's 307-point gain over Bill Elliott in the final eight races of the 1985 season.

1986-1993[link]

1989 #11 car

Labonte fell back to twelfth in the standings in 1986. Before season's end, he announced he was leaving Hagan's team to drive the #11 Budweiser Chevrolet for Junior Johnson's team the next year. In his first season with his new team, he earned four pole-position starts and won the Holly Farms 400, leaping up to third in the final standings. He followed that up with a fourth-place points finish in 1988, including a win in Sprint All-Star Race IV. In 1989, the team switched to Ford Thunderbirds. Despite two wins during the season, he fell back to tenth in the championship.

In 1990 He signed with the #1 Skoal Classic Oldsmobile team for Precision Products Racing. He had four top-fives and nine top-tens but finished 15th in the points standings. He returned to Billy Hagan's team to drive his #94 Sunoco Oldsmobile in 1991, winning his first pole since 1988. He began 1992 with finishes inside the top 8 in each of the first eight races. He had a total of four top-five finishes and sixteen top-tens, ending the season eighth in points. The following season, the team switched to the #14 Kellogg's Chevrolet. While he had ten top-tens, for the first time in his career, Labonte failed to finish a race in the top-five and he dropped to eighteenth in points.

1994-2002[link]

1997 racecar

In 1994, Labonte joined Hendrick Motorsports, racing the #5 Kellogg's Chevrolet and responded by notching 3 wins in each of his first two years there. In 1996, he broke Richard Petty’s streak for consecutive races after winning at North Wilkesboro. Despite only two victories, Labonte went on to win the championship that year as well, a record-setting twelve years after his first. Driving with a broken hand during the last two races of the season, Labonte and his younger brother Bobby were able to perform a dual victory lap at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the last race of the year; Bobby won the race and Terry the championship on the final day of the season, the only time a driver and his sibling won the race and the championship at the same time.

Labonte posted twenty top-ten finishes in 1997 and notched his only win of the year at the fall race at Talladega Superspeedway. In 1998, Labonte was able to win the Pontiac Excitement 400 and finished ninth in points. Despite a win at his home track at Texas Motor Speedway and Sprint All-Star Race XV in 1999, Labonte finished 12th in the championship points, the first time he had finished outside the top-ten since 1993. The year 2000 saw Labonte's consecutive start streak broken at 655 after he suffered inner ear injuries at the Pepsi 400 and was forced to miss the Brickyard 400 and the Global Crossing @ The Glen. He began 2001 with two top-six finishes in the first seven races but finished 23rd in the final point standings. He dropped back to 24th in 2002 with one top-five finish and four top-ten finishes.

2003–2008[link]

In 2003, Labonte won his first pole since 2000 at Richmond and won the Mountain Dew Southern 500 (where 23 years earlier he won his first race) at Darlington Raceway after leading the last 33 laps. It was only his second win in a crown jewel event (the other being in the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in 1980). That helped lead him to a tenth place spot in the final standings. 2004 was much more of a struggle for Labonte, and Hendrick Motorsports announced Kyle Busch as Labonte's replacement when he retired. Late in the 2004 season, 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. The part time schedule was nicknamed, "Shifting Gears: Lone Star Style."

Labonte began his semi-retirement in 2005. He borrowed the number 44, his former number, from Petty Enterprises and ran Hendrick's #44 research and development car with sponsorship from Kellogg's, Pizza Hut, and GMAC. His best finish in 2005 for Hendrick Motorsports came at Pocono Raceway, where he finished 12th. He also drove a few races in the #11 Fedex Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing following the release of Jason Leffler, with a top finish of 9th at Richmond.

Labonte began the 2006 season driving the #96 Texas Instruments/DLP HDTV Chevrolet Monte Carlo car for Hall of Fame Racing, a new team started by former Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman. Labonte's past-champion's provisional guaranteed the team a starting spot in the first five races. Labonte's finishes in those races left the team in 30th place in points, sealing a spot for the team in each race as long as they remained in the top 35. Tony Raines took over the driving duties for the #96 car and ran the rest of the season's races, with the exception of the road-course races at Infineon Raceway, in Sonoma, California, and Watkins Glen International, in Watkins Glen, New York. Labonte's best finish of 2006 came at Infineon, where he finished 3rd due to a fuel mileage gamble by the crew chief of the #96 DLP/Texas Instruments Chevrolet, Philippe Lopez. Labonte also ran ten races with Hendrick Motorsports research and development car in 2006.

During the 2007 season, Labonte drove three races for Michael Waltrip Racing, both road course events, and the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, in the 55 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry.^[2][3]

On May 11, 2008, it was announced that Labonte would drive the #45 car of Petty Enterprises for six races in the middle of the 2008 Sprint Cup season, replacing Kyle Petty on a temporary basis. Labonte was reunited with brother Bobby, who was the regular driver of the #43 for Petty. Labonte posted two solid top-twenty runs in the six-race tenure, a 16th at Daytona and a 17th at Infineon, both the best finishes for the 45 car this season. It was later announced that he would drive for Petty again in the Brickyard 400 and would also drive in place of Patrick Carpentier in The American Red Cross Pennsylvania 500. Labonte was back in the #45 car for Petty Enterprises when the Sprint Cup Series went to the Michigan International Speedway for the 3M Performance 400 on August 17, 2008. He would be back in the #45 car again for the AMP Energy 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway for the final time in the 2008 Sprint Cup Season. He would go on to post a 17th-place finish, even after sustaining severe damage in one of the multi-car accidents. Labonte's results in 2008 proved far better on average than the previous three seasons, while driving also part-time.

2009-2010[link]

It was reported first on January 23, 2009, that Labonte would attempt to make the Daytona 500 for Prism Motorsports, driving the #66 Window World Toyota. The team announced they planned to race full-time with Dave Blaney after Daytona. Labonte started 43rd, and went a lap down. He managed to get his lap back and fought up to finish 24th in the rain-shortened event. Starting at Indianapolis in 2009, Labonte drove the #08 Toyota for Carter/Simo Racing for four races.

It was reported that Labonte would be forming a new team with Bill Stavola, formerly the co-owner of Stavola Brothers Racing.^[4] It has been confirmed that Labonte will drive 3 races in the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season for the team, in the #10 Chevy at Richmond, Charlotte and Texas. Labonte barely missed making the field at Richmond, but took the Gander Mountain sponsorship to the #55 Prism Motorsports car which had qualified 37th. Labonte would finish 40th in the race after an accident forced him out. He also raced at Phoenix for Whitney Motorsports.

2011-2012[link]

It was announced that Frank Stoddard would be starting his own team, FAS Lane Racing, with Labonte driving the #32 U.S. Chrome Ford Fusion in the Daytona 500. Labonte started 43rd and finished a respectable 15th. Terry is semi-retired, but competed in seven additional races over the course of the year in the No. 32.

He will return to the No. 32 to compete in the 2012 Daytona 500.^[5]

NASCAR official duties[link]

On June 12, 2007, Labonte tested for Richard Childress Racing at the Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve track in an official NASCAR compatibility test for the August 4 NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge Busch Series event at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.^[6]

NASCAR wanted a driver they were assured would not race in the NAPA Auto Parts 200, and were concerned Childress drivers Jeff Burton or Kevin Harvick would race in the event.

Honors[link]

In 1998, the senior Labonte was named as one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. A park was renamed for the Labonte brothers in their hometown of Corpus Christi in 2001, and they were chosen for entry into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. Labonte supports a variety of charities and due to his efforts, the Ronald McDonald House in Corpus Christi, the Victory Junction Gang Camp near Randleman, North Carolina, and the Hendrick Marrow Program all have benefited.

Competition in other series[link]

In addition to his 22 wins in Sprint Cup, Labonte has won 11 races in the Nationwide Series and 1 in the Craftsman Truck Series. He has been the champion of the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring as well as three all-star races: the Busch Clash (now known as the Budweiser Shootout) in 1985 and The Winston (now the Sprint All-Star Challenge) in 1988 and 1999. He also won the IROC championship in 1989. Including his two championship seasons, he has finished in the top 10 in the year-end standings 17 times, and his top-five and top-ten totals approach 25 percent and 50 percent, respectively, of his total races.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Terry Labonte

• Terry Labonte at Racing Reference
• Terry Labonte at NASCAR.com

Spencer Pumpelly is an American race car driver, born 28 December 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.

Currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia, Pumpelly is active in the American Le Mans Series, Rolex Sports Car Series^[1] and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge driving for The Racer's Group.

Racing career[link]

Pumpelly made his professional debut in the 1998 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona driving a GT1 Class Camaro entered by Diablo Racing. Later he partnered with Chris Mitchum to form Pumpelly/Mitchum racing where he competed in sport car racing events in a tube frame Porsche 911 until the team ran out of funding in 2000. During this period Spencer began working as an instructor for the Skip Barber Racing School.

Zip Racing[link]

While teaching at Skip Barber, Spencer met Steven Ivankovic who helped him form Zip Pumpelly Racing which later became Zip Racing and then Hazardous Sports. Partnering with Ivankovic, Rick DiIorio, Tom Pumpelly, Randy Pobst, and Andy Lally, Spencer competed in the Rolex Sport Car Series as well as the American Le Mans Series in the GT class securing a his first victory in 2001 at Trios Rivieres.

After the demise of Hazardous Sports at the end of 2003 Spencer drove for several teams in the sports car ranks including Synergy Racing, Race Prep Motorsports, Marshal Cooke Racing, and TPC Racing where he and his teammates collected a victory in the 2006 Rolex 24 At Daytona. It was his performance and win at the 24 Hours of Daytona that vaulted Spencer into the upper ranks of sports car racing in the U.S., and a highly sought after coach for racers such as Duncan Ende, Bob Doyle, and James Norman, MD who were also racing the Porsche GT3.

The Racer's Group (TRG)[link]

2011 Rolex Sports Car

At the end of 2006 Spencer was brought in to help Andy Lally and Marc Bunting secure the Grand-Am Rolex GT championship in the final 9 hour race at Miller Park. The trio took the class victory and Spencer was invited back to drive full time for TRG in 2007, where he continues to drive as the team's Porsche specialist to this day in both ALMS and Grand-Am. During that period, partnering with Andy Lally, he claimed 2 GT victories in the 6 Hours at the Glen and the GT Victory at the 2011 Rolex 24 at Daytona (his second win in the GT class at the 24 Hours of Daytona).

In addition to winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2011, Spencer also finished second at the 12 Hours of Sebring, also for TRG. With two more wins and 4 podiums in ALMS, Spencer finished tied for second in the 2011 ALMS championship standing. In 2011 he competed for the first time at the 24 Hours of LeMans in the GTEAm class driving for Flying Lizard Motorsports, leading the race at the 18 hour mark until the car failed.

Personal Life[link]

Spencer lives with his wife Lindsay in Atlanta GA. He has been a vegetarian since 2003 and a vegan since 2010.

24 Hours of Le Mans results[link]

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2011	GTE Am	81	M	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Darren Law	211	DNF	DNF

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