Hendrick is banking on Labonte and DeHart recreating the chemistry from 1996 and producing another title. As a matter of fact, I know they can do it. Labonte said he is committed to proving his boss right, so he has spent an unusually large amount of time at the Hendrick Motorsports complex in Harrisburg since the season ended. The goal is to build a new sense of teamwork with the revamped crew. After I won in 1984 and 1996, the team's kind of fallen apart the next year.
People are the key.
This time around, Labonte thinks the people part of the equation has been solved. I think we could be close. I think we can get right back in the hunt.