CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jeff Burton went into the season-opening Daytona 500 with a solid shot at winning NASCAR’s biggest race of the year.
Then his engine failed 92 laps into the race, setting in motion a string of bad luck that’s plagued Burton through the first two months of the season. He’s at Talladega Superspeedway ranked 25th in the Sprint Cup standings, and nothing close to the title contender team owner Richard Childress thought he would be this season.
Burton remains undaunted.
“I’m extremely confident that we can dig ourselves out of the hole and get ourselves in the position we need to be in,” he said.
Talladega is a good place to get things moving in the right direction.