If his lead is 186 or more after the checkered flag this afternoon, it's over. If he's 152 points ahead of his nearest challenger, then all he'd have to do would be to start next weekend's race at Atlanta to clinch. Unless Earnhardt makes up 33 points Sunday or unless third-place Jeff Burton makes up 41, Labonte is home free. Labonte has had the points lead for so long, since April 30, that it almost seems like second nature. Over the past few weeks he and his race team, led by crew chief Jimmy Makar, certainly haven't seemed stressed out about being out front.
People just pay more attention to it now than ever before.
You're just trying to do what you set out to do - work real hard and not try to get caught up in a lot of things. Not really, although he does have the family trait of not letting a particularly stupid question go by scot-free. Yes, and then if it doesn't happen we want to do it next weekend. But the sooner the better for us. We want to be able to do it as soon as we can, just for the fact that it would be fun.