- September 1st, 2017, 9:57 pm
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Granted, I was only 8 when Terry won the cup that year, but I only remember him running good a handful of races and won sporadically. Ive never known the 5 team to be consistently strong outside of 2009. Kyle Busch drove it for 3 years but only won 3-4 races.
It's interesting to think about the 5 "team" as being cursed, but in reality HMS is one big team with 4 cars. The 48 and 88 cars are built in one shop and the 24/5 in another just beside it. The cars themselves are interchanged amongst the teams at times with the wraps changing for the respective driver/race. Hopefully the "curse" or whatever you want to call it ends and they get all 4 cars running well again.
flamehunter wrote:Labonte's crew chief was Dale Inman for that championship. Inman has the record for championships as a CC; he did the same job for Richard Petty and his 7 cups.LUAlum1215 wrote:Also true. It's best year was with Mark Martin in 2009, 4 wins I believe. Im interested in who the crew chief ends up being. Not sure if his current CC will make the move with him or not.While Martin had more wins (5 according to Wikipedia) in 2009, Terry Labonte won the championship with it in '97. Some good history with that number which was the original number for Hendrick back in 1984 with Geoff Bodine. Interesting story was that in '84 Hendrick was ready to shut the whole team down after just seven races but Bodine won at Martinsville that weekend and gave them new life. The rest is history.
Granted, I was only 8 when Terry won the cup that year, but I only remember him running good a handful of races and won sporadically. Ive never known the 5 team to be consistently strong outside of 2009. Kyle Busch drove it for 3 years but only won 3-4 races.
It's interesting to think about the 5 "team" as being cursed, but in reality HMS is one big team with 4 cars. The 48 and 88 cars are built in one shop and the 24/5 in another just beside it. The cars themselves are interchanged amongst the teams at times with the wraps changing for the respective driver/race. Hopefully the "curse" or whatever you want to call it ends and they get all 4 cars running well again.