Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton
Jeffrey T. "Jeff" Burton, nicknamed "The Mayor", is an American retired stock car racing driver. He scored 21 career victories in the Sprint Cup Series, including two Coca-Cola 600s in 1999 and 2001 and the 1999 Southern 500. He currently serves as a color analyst for NBC Sports, having joined them upon their return to their coverage of NASCAR. His brother Ward Burton and his nephew Jeb Burton have also competed in the Sprint Cup Series...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth29 June 1967
CitySouth Boston, VA
ask car felt five people race racing safer today
Racing is safer today than it was five years ago, but we didn't know it. People ask me, 'Do you feel safer today in a race car than you did five years ago?' No, I don't. I felt safe five years ago. I thought we were doing all we could do. I didn't know we could do more.
drivers ok somebody
We have drivers who think it's OK for them to do something, but it's not OK for somebody to do it to them.
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Bristol for me is very much a rhythm track, especially in race-pace. One reason Rusty Wallace has done so well, and Jeff Gordon, is that those are pace kind of guys. They can run the same lap speed consistently.
chance equal situation team tire
Every team should have the chance to do a tire test. You have a situation that is not equal for everyone.
bit bristol cases certainly chance definitely everywhere fourth happen hopefully improved ourselves past position pull run second time tiny track win
Well, we've definitely run well there in the past and put ourselves in position to win. I've run second at Bristol and fourth at Bristol with this team. Every time we've been there we've been very competitive. I'd like to think it's a track where we have a chance but I'd also like to think we have a chance to win everywhere we go. Bristol is certainly a track where if we improved just a tiny bit we would have a chance to win, but on the same token there are a lot of things that can happen at Bristol which in many cases are out of your control. Hopefully we can pull it off.
chance clean far good hit kevin last race teammate
I wasn't going to hit Kevin. I race clean every chance I get and the last person I'm going to hit is my teammate. Kevin has been real good to me as far as being a teammate and he would do the same for me.
appreciate believe continuing fight guaranteed mark martin pay percent proud race remembered taught throughout time track victory
Mark Martin taught me that you're never guaranteed to be in Victory Lane, and to appreciate it every time and I remembered that. I'm proud of myself for continuing to fight and give 100 percent throughout all of it. I never once didn't come to the race track and try, and I believe that'll pay off for me.
box open seen sure
It does open Pandora's Box a little bit. I've never seen anything like this, and I'm not sure I like what I see when I look at it.
behind car changed drivers indeed issues owners
Without a doubt, there's a lot of car owners and drivers right now that are thinking, 'Hmmm, am I behind on this thing?' ... These issues have indeed changed the landscape. No question.
dig ourselves running wins
It is early, but it's better than being 20th. Right now, we're not having to dig ourselves out of a hole. ...But if we keep running the way we're running we'll get our wins and we'll do what we need to do in points.
anybody extremely front guy maybe proven running strong
Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but when I look at it, I see an extremely strong front bumper. I don't think it's going to keep anybody from running into the back of the guy in front of him at all.
anyone behind car drivers impact owners replaced scenes
I don't think anyone has replaced him. His impact in the sport behind the scenes is well-known by car owners and drivers that were around in that time.
equipment last needed
For us to excel, we needed to have better equipment than we had last year.
great start
I'd like to say that we had a great day and all's right with the world. This is a great way to start the season, but we've still got a long way to go.