Mike Hembree
Posted: April 9, 2008
For much of his racing career, Jeff Burton has been compared to former teammate Mark Martin. Both are smart, sane, careful and slow to anger, and each tends to bring his car home with little or no damage, a trait that endears drivers to mechanics.
Like Martin, Burton is a favorite of other garage dwellers -- from drivers and crew chiefs to officials and journalists. Someone once said Burton doesn't have a huge fan base but is everybody's second-favorite driver. There's some truth to that; Burton seldom has been a target of overzealous, overserved boobirds.