Sunday
Kevin Harvick Continues Strong Season and Maintains Point Lead After Strong Run at Dover; Jeff Burton Finishes Second
Press Release
Jeff Burton, No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet, finished second in the Autism Speaks 400, leading once for one lap. It is Burton’s third top-five and fifth top-10 of the season and moved him to eighth in the standings.
Tony Stewart, No.14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet, moved up four positions in the standings to 14th with his ninth place finish today.
It was a day of mixed results for other Team Chevy drivers.
Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet, led eight times for a race-high 225-laps before suffering an speeding penalty on pit road exiting from his last pit stop of the race. The four-time defending champion is fourth in the standings, 131 points out of the lead.
Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet, finished 11th and sits sixth in the series point standings.
Mark Martin, No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, is 11th in the standings after battling handling issues most of the race that relegated him to the 15th finishing position.
Kyle Busch (Toyota) was the race winner. Matt Kenseth (Ford), Denny Hamlin (Toyota) and David Reutimann (Toyota) completed the top-five finishers.
The Series takes a week off from points-paying races to participate in the Sprint All Star race Saturday, May 22 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT:
JEFF BURTON, NO. 31 CATERPILLAR CHEVROLET – Finished 2nd:
THE MODERATOR: We’re now joined in the infield media center by today’s second place finisher, driver of the No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet, Jeff Burton. Tell us about your run.
JEFF BURTON: It was a good run. Obviously we didn’t think we were as good as the 48 most of the day. We had one run where I thought we were a little better than he was, but overall he was a touch better. I thought we were about even with the 18, a little better, and then he seemed to get a little better there late in the race.
We had a good run, and we just need to keep knocking on the door. We’ll get us some.
Q. Jeff, looked like how was the track conditions out there? Looked like a lot of people were loose and slipping and sliding.
JEFF BURTON: Yeah, there was a tremendous amount of rubber built up on the track, and when you run through that stuff, it really would upset the car, just this tire lays down so much rubber, it’s hard to run through it. You’ve got to run around it or run underneath it or try to straddle it. And it was just really tough. The tire was it’s a good tire. It’s hard to pass because the way that rubber is, it kind of makes the track a little bit of a single lane racetrack off the corner. But it was I don’t remember rubber building up quite this much here before, and I thought that had a pretty big impact on the race.
THE MODERATOR: Jeff, thank you, and congratulations.
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