Bobby Hamilton
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"Charles Robert """Bobby""" Hamilton, Sr." was an United States/American stock car racing/stock car racing driver. A driver and owner in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit and the winner of the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (now Camping World Truck Series) championship, Hamilton owned Bobby Hamilton Racing. Hamilton's son, Bobby Hamilton, Jr., was also a NASCAR driver.

Hamilton may be best remembered for two of his NEXTEL Cup/Winston Cup wins. His first career victory at the 1996 Dura Lube 500 at Phoenix International Raceway/Phoenix was the first win for the #43 Petty car since Richard Petty's last win in 1984. He also had a memorable win at the Aaron's 499/Talladega 500 in April 2001 driving the #55 car for owner Andy Petree. The entire 500-mile race was run caution-free and was under intense scrutiny from both NASCAR and the media at large, being the first superspeedway race run since the death of Dale Earnhardt at the 2001 Daytona 500 two months earlier. A physically and mentally exhausted Hamilton slumped to the ground after exiting his car and was given oxygen from a tank before giving the standard post-race Victory Lane interview while sitting on the ground, leaning against the drivers door.

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It just draws more attention, and we need whatever it takes to draw more attention to this series. I don't see any negatives to the Chase.

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I've seen a lot of them, but not like this, ... The weather on the Gulf Coast is always bad. You've got to be smart and know when to get out. This one sneaked up on a lot of people. I know this is the NFL, everybody says we've got to move (ahead), but that's family, that's life. That's what comes first.

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I know we an't keep taking these losses like this. We've got to do something right now and get back on track.

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We've got to find the way to make some plays. We've got to do something. Right now.

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I think it needs to trickle down to this deal, ... The only bad thing about it is that we don't run enough races.

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I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races.

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Because we are racing for points, but we didn't have anything to lose in Indy so we tried all kinds of things during the race.

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I'm pretty happy with it. Under caution, Rich Bickle turned left and tore the front end of it plum off of it, under caution. ... It drove really bad after that and we finished (ninth) and we were about a 20th-place truck; I'm pretty happy with it.

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We put a lot of emphasis during the offseason to come in here and do better against the run.

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