Banquet 400 presented by ConAgra Foods - Terry Labonte Notes

LABONTE TO ADDRESS FUTURE OCT. 12: Two-time NASCAR champion Terry Labonte is expected to announce his future racing plans during a media breakfast at Hendrick Motorsports on Tuesday, Oct. 12.

OLD RELIABLE: Kellogg's Racing will have one of its most reliable cars (Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 225) entered in the Banquet 400 at Kansas Speedway this weekend. It's been run four times in 2004, with top-10 finishes in three of those races -- twice at Pocono Raceway and once at Chicagoland Speedway. Labonte drove the car to a 12th-place finish at Kansas in 2002, his best showing in three starts there.

500-MILE MAN: By running to the finish of last weekend's EA Sports 500 at Talladega, Labonte has now completed seven 500-mile races this year -- one shy of his personal single-season high. He completed eight races of 500 miles or longer during his championship season of 1984. There are three 500-mile events remaining on the 2004 schedule: Concord, N.C., on Oct. 16, Hampton, Ga., on Oct. 31 and Darlington, S.C., on Nov. 14.

LABONTE PILING UP LAPS: Through the first 29 races of the 2004 season, Labonte has run more laps than any other Hendrick Motorsports driver, completing 7,934 circuits. Jeff Gordon is second among the Hendrick contingent with 7,767 laps completed.

PROVISIONALLY SPEAKING: Labonte has now gone 44 consecutive races without the use of a car owner's provisional to access the starting field. The last time he failed to qualify for a race based on speed was the 2003 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, making him one of only six full-time drivers to do so -- the others being Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart.

HOMECOMING FOR REXFORD: Ondre Rexford, engine tuner on Labonte's No. 5 team, returns to his native Kansas for this weekend's Banquet 400. Rexford, in his fifth year at Hendrick Motorsports, is from Dodge City, about 340 miles southwest of the race track.

TERRY LABONTE, DRIVER OF THE NO. 5 KELLOGG'S CHEVROLETS: (ON THIS WEEKEND'S RETURN TO KANSAS.) "The car we have ready for this weekend has been very good on the mile-and-a-half tracks over the last couple years -- Chicago, Texas and Kansas. We tested at Charlotte (N.C.) last week and that'll help us in Kansas, as well as Atlanta coming up at the end of the month."