Jeff Burton
- Height: 5-7
- Weight: 155
- Born: Jun 29, 1967, South Boston, VA
News and Notes
Jul 23
This week: Burton has competed in every Brickyard 500 but has just one top-five finish (fifth in 1999) and three top-10s in 14 starts. He was eighth last year. "I think it's an honor to go to Indy every year," Burton said. "The history is unbelievable. There is nowhere we go where you get the sense of people like you do at Indy with the grandstands on both sides of the front straightaway. When you walk out on Sunday afternoon to start that race, it's like nothing else. The drivers' introductions there are pretty cool. It's amazing to see that many people, and the excitement at Indy is cool. It's an open-wheel sacred-ground race track, and the fact that we can go there and race is truly an honor."
Last race: Burton took the week off after his 19th-place finish at Chicagoland.
Etc.: It used to be a must to test at the Speedway, but this year NASCAR decided not to include the 2-1/2-mile oval on its list of open-test tracks. "I'm a fan of not testing at Indy," Burton said. "Indy is Indy -- there is no other place like it. I think we should test at race tracks that provide us information for more than one track, and Indy is the smoothest and flattest track we go to. I wasn't disappointed that we weren't going to test there because it puts everybody in the same boat. We don't get to test at a majority places that we run on. Indy is no different, in my opinion, because we didn't test there."
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