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
airport car drove last looked nobody number tail today wife year
I can't tell you the number of times I got out of my car on Sunday, the last year or two, to go to the airport and looked at my wife and said 'I drove my tail off today and nobody will ever know it.
mind opportunity pick special
I don't see any one person that everyone migrates to in this sport anymore. When you have an opportunity to pick the mind of a seven-time champion, that's a special thing.
chance chase greatly guy ran
Dale Jarrett's chance to make the Chase was greatly harmed by a guy who was pretty much in the Chase, who just ran over him,
advantage best car played testing wind
That's the best wind we've had down here in all of testing and everything else. It just played in our hands, and we had a car that could take advantage of it.
decide drivers open wrong
It's in the drivers' hands. Drivers need to decide that we can do it the right way and it's no problem, or we can do it the wrong way and open up Pandora's box.
mental physical race
It's very much a mental race but very physical at the same time.
bit everybody fast needles panic pins time track
Any time we go to a track with a new surface, especially a fast 1.5-mile track, everybody sits on pins and needles a little bit. I think it is important we get through it without any issues. If you have issues, then there's a bit of a panic without a whole lot of time to do anything about it.
car driving pride race sponsors time work
There is time for both. When I am driving a race car I am driving a race car. But I take a lot of pride in the sponsors I work with.
bullets hide streak
The first thing you do when you're in a streak like we've been in is you hide all the bullets in your house.
competition deal driver focus hardest level logistics needs run team understanding
The hardest thing that I've had to deal with is the understanding that I can't do everything. I just don't think that the driver can run the team anymore. I think he needs to be able to concentrate on driving.?The competition level is so big now, I need to focus on racing, not on the logistics part of it.
feels last weeks
The last two weeks I really let them down. This feels really good.
threw
I threw it away after the first week.
everybody further knew move moved moving needed richard time
I think that Richard and everybody (at RCR) knew they needed to move forward. But I also think that any time they moved away from something that they were doing, they were moving further away from Dale.
digging turned win
I was digging after the restart and it just turned sideways. I am disappointed that we didn't win or do better than that in the end.