Some drivers have certain tracks they like and tracks where they get around well.
If a driver likes a track, part of your battle is won for you already. He finished out of the top 10 last year for the first time since 1993. Labonte would like to repeat the scene of a year ago, when he passed Dale Jarrett on the 323rd of 334 laps and went on to win his 21st Winston Cup race. Most of the time when you're racing, you don't notice the people in the stands. I noticed them there.