Hagan Enterprises (also known as Hagan Racing) was a

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team that operated from 1969; 1975–1994. It was owned by owner/driver Billy Hagan. The team is best known for winning the 1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship with Terry Labonte.

History

Hagan made three starts in NASCAR's Grand National/Winston Cup division, finishing eighth in his first start, the inaugural Talladega 500 in a self-owned 1968 Mercury Cyclone. He did not field another car until 1975, finishing 19th once again at Talladega. He also fielded a car for five races for Skip Manning. In 1976, he fielded the #92 Stratagraph

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for Manning, and he won Rookie of the Year honors. Manning was released in 1978, and replaced by

Terry Labonte Terrance Lee Labonte (born November 16, 1956), nicknamed Texas Terry or The Iceman, is an American former stock car driver who raced from 1978 to 2014 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup and Sprint Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series). A tw ...

. Hagan hired Petty Enterprises crew chief Dale Inman for the 1984 season. Labonte won the

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, and won the 1984 championship. Labonte left the team in 1986, and was replaced by

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. Labonte returned to the team in 1991, but was unable to continue their success. 1994, marked Hagan's last season as a single car owner, fielding cars for

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and

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. In 1996, his shop was purchased by

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. Hagan continued to serve as a co-owner of the operation until the team's demise in 1999. The team ran 547 races, won 6 races, had 101 top 5s, 236 top 10s, 372 top 20s, and 15 poles. They led 3,551 laps out of a possible 156,701, completing 85.83% of them. The drivers who drove for Hagan was Billy Hagan himself, Randy McDonald, Mel Larson,

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, Dick May,

, Skip Manning,

, and

. Labonte is the only driver who won a race for the team and won the 1984

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References

{{reflist Defunct NASCAR teams