Bobby Labonte said Friday his ride at TRG Motorsports “just wasn’t working out,” which led him to look for another team.
Bobby Labonte Discusses His Future Plans
Labonte is driving for Robby Gordon Motorsports this weekend and will then pilot the Phoenix Racing car at Daytona and Chicago.
As for Indianapolis and beyond? Labonte is rideless, for now.
It’s an uncomfortable position for the former Cup champion, who said he start-and-parked several times at TRG but didn’t want to continue.
“We’d already done it three times,” Labonte said. “It’s just unfortunate for them. They don’t want to do it either, and they didn’t want to do it, but that’s just kind of how it turned out.”
Labonte said he was “real excited” to help Gordon improve the No. 7 car and mentioned that he could potentially run a second RGM car at Indy, but those talks were preliminary.
It was highly unlikely Labonte would run his own team, he said, but he doesn’t feel ready to quit anytime soon.
"I've done it for awhile, but I don't feel like I have," he said. "I'm excited to go to the races every weekend and have a passion to do what you do and get frustrated when you don't do good and excited when you do good. (My career is) a major blur going real fast and just keeps on going."
Labonte’s weekend got off to a bad start in Friday’s Cup practice, however, when he wrecked the No. 7 car coming off Turn 4. The team had to pull out its backup car.
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