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RCR's legacy of durability alive and well team-wide
By David Caraviello, NASCAR.COM
April 11, 2008
08:07 PM EDT
AVONDALE, Ariz. -- During his peak years at Richard Childress Racing, so many of Dale Earnhardt's championship runs were fueled by reliability. During his 1990 title quest, he finished 28 of 29 points events and during one 13-race stretch completed all but three laps. In 1993, the Intimidator finished 28 of 30 races, and clinched his sixth NASCAR crown by completing all but five laps in a 15-event span late in the year. His black No. 3 car was often as durable as a tank.
That legacy is evident today within the Childress organization, whose three cars lead the Sprint Cup tour in percentage of laps completed entering Saturday night's Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Speedway. That durability is a large reason why RCR drivers Jeff Burton, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer stand first, second and 11th, respectively, in the series standings, without a single DNF -- the NASCAR abbreviation for did not finish -- between them. Read More...
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Phoenix: Burton - Friday media visit
Racing series NASCAR-CUP
Date 2008-04-11
JEFF BURTON, DRIVER OF THE NO. 31 AT&T IMPALA SS, met with media members at Phoenix International Raceway and talked about Sunday's race, passing in the new car, a drivers union, drug testing and more.
TALK ABOUT THE TRACK AND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO TOMORROW NIGHT. "I'm hopefully looking forward to being better than I was yesterday. We had a horrendous qualifying result. We didn't have a bad effort, but we had a bad result. I don't know, really honestly with the car of tomorrow we've qualified poorly a lot and I thought we had figured that qualifying thing out but with the car of tomorrow we've struggled and yesterday just continued that.
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Get this man a nickname: Jeff Burton
By Jay Busbee
On the whole, NASCAR's nicknames suck. Sure, you've got "The Intimidator," which might just be the best nickname in sports history, and Tony "Smoke" Stewart, one of the finest handles of any athlete today, but beyond that? Not much. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s nickname is ... Junior. Jeff Gordon? The "Rainbow Warrior." (Ooooh, scary!) So we're taking it upon ourselves here -- and shamelessly ripping off our colleague MJD over at Shutdown Corner -- to start handing out nicknames to the moniker-deprived. Post your thoughts and suggestions below, and tomorrow, we'll vote on the best of the bunch.
We start right at the top, with current points leader Jeff Burton. Burton's a tough guy to hang a nickname on, being that pretty much all he does is win and race well without a whole lot of flash and dazzle. Now, we could go with the cheesy name abbreviation of J-Burt, but that's just stupid. Or we could go with the Chris Bermanism of "Jeff 'Ernie and' Burton," but that's not exactly going to inspire either fear or admiration. Read More...
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Jeff Burton proves drivers over 40 can win
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.
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Respected Gentleman: NASCAR veterans admire Burton's style
By Mike Mulhern
JOURNAL REPORTER
FORT WORTH, Texas - When it comes to being a spokesman for NASCAR, few men do it better than Jeff Burton.
Yes, he may have started taking too much of a company line on some issues (in public). But still when it comes down to making a point - on any topic, you pick it - Burton can offer a clear, cogent argument, and respond eloquently to any questions. Read More...
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