ARCHDALE, NC (February 13, 2007)- Earl Pearson Jr. and the Bobby Labonte Racing Team picked up their second win in 2007 during speedweeks at Volusia Speedway Park in the opening event of the UMP DIRT Car Late Model sanctioned events. Earl driving the #44 LifeLong Locks, Lucas Oil, Mopar, Sunoco Race Fuels Mastersbilt Chassis was clearly the dominate car in the feature event. Earl started on the pole position and led the early laps before being passed by Tim McCreadie on lap 3. Earl raced back by McCreadie on lap 6 and was never challenged again for lead crossing the finish line a full straightaway ahead at the checkers. The win was worth $5,000 for Earl Pearson Jr. and the team. Earl Pearson Jr. is the defending  UMP Winternationals champion from 2006 recording a win and several top 5 finishes last year winning the bonus money as the 2006 UMP Winternationals Champion.

Earl and the Bobby Labonte Racing Team also picked up their first win together as a team in 2007 last week at East Bay Raceway Park during the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series sanctioned events in Tampa Florida. Earl won the Tuesday night feature event that paid $5000 to win the 30-lap event.  With two wins in just eight days Bobby Labonte, Earl and the team have put together a winning combination in just a short time. Earl has one fast time award, two wins, 4-top fives and 5 top ten finishes in 9 starts during the 2007 speedweeks events competing at Golden Isles Speedway in Brunswick Georgia, East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa Florida and Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville Florida.

"I'm thrilled to be driving for Bobby Labonte Racing and to get two wins for Bobby already this early in the season with so many great drivers and teams here is really amazing for us. I can't say enough about my crew Jason, Matt and Regan are really on top of these cars right now and making my job easy. Hopefully we can keep this momentum going and get a couple more wins this week", stated Earl. Earl is the current 2006 World 100 Champion and 2006 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series National Champion.

Bobby Labonte Racing has launched their new dirt late model team website loaded with information about driver Earl Pearson Jr., team sponsors, 2007 schedule and links to the merchandise store to purchase both Bobby Labonte merchandise and new 2007 Earl Pearson Jr. merchandise. The new team website can be found on the internet at www.bobbylabontemotorsports.com. Bobby Labonte Racing and Earl Pearson Jr. will compete on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series full time in 2007 and will compete in various other dirt late model events in 2007. Sponsors for the new team for 2007 include LifeLong Locks as the primary sponsor with associate sponsorship coming from Mopar, Lucas Oil, and Sunoco Race Fuels. Other sponsors associated with Bobby and Earl include, Mastersbilt Race Cars, Larry Wallace Engines, Allstar Performance, Tiger Rear End, BERT, Butlerbuilt, Hyperco, Moroso, SHY, Wilwood, Woodward, TWM, Dyers Top Rods, Weld, Hoosier Tire, PRC, Jones Racing Products, Stealth, Trick, Wrisco, Sparco, Bell, Machanix Wear, Oakley, Cherrios, Coke, Dunn-Benson Racing Supply, ASI Racewear, WRT Web Designs, Rick Schwallie Photography and WD Enterprises.

Earl Pearson Jr. and the Bobby Labonte Racing Team will compete every night this week at Volusia  Speedway Park through the final WoO Late Model sanctioned event on Saturday February 17th. For all the information about Bobby Labonte Racing and Earl Pearson Jr. visit www.bobbylabontemotorsports.com.