Burton 'learned something' from disappointing Daytona 500 finish
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Jeff Burton led the Daytona 500 with three laps to go earlier this year, but the Richard Childress Racing driver was shuffled out of the draft on a restart and finished 13th.
Burton hopes the results will be different as the Sprint Cup Series returns to Daytona International Speedway for this Saturday’s Coke Zero 400.
“Restrictor-plate racing has not been our strong point,” Burton said of his No. 31 team. “We struggle at qualifying and have raced pretty well, but we haven’t had the speed in order to be successful. We got ourselves in position to lead the Daytona 500 and were one restart from winning the race, but it just didn’t work out.
“We weren’t fast enough to be leading the race at that time, but that’s where I got us, and [we] eventually got shuffled out late in the race. I was trying to change up my restarts because I knew if I took off on a normal restart that I was going to get blasted by, and ultimately, it made it worse.
“We ended up finishing 13th, which is disappointing based on where we were with three laps to go. Nonetheless, we learned something from it, and, hopefully, we can apply it to this race.”
Burton has one victory at Daytona, winning this race in 2000 while with the team then known as Roush Racing. He also has six top-five and eight top-10 finishes in 29 starts at the 2.5-mile track.
“Daytona is so entrenched in NASCAR’s history,” Burton said. “There’s no question the [Daytona] 500 is the bigger of the two races, but I won’t give my 400 trophy back.”
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