Consistent Burton at No. 5
Jeff Burton has finished in the top 15 in the first four races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. That's good enough for fifth place in the Cup standings.
He finished 10th at Atlanta Motor Speedway, finishing well in what he described as an ill-handling car.
“For the majority of the race we were really, really loose," said Burton, driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "The AT&T Chevy was all over the place. We made adjustments throughout the race and nothing really seemed to work. We were tight for a little bit towards the end of the race, which we seemed to be our best. On the last restart we put on a set of tires that didn't help the handling of the car. It was a good points day for the AT&T Racing team and we'll keep digging and doing our homework.”
The next race for the Cup drivers is Bristol Motor Speedway. Burton finished second last year in this race, the first for NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow.
Kyle Busch was the winner of the first Car of Tomorrow race. But that was in the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
Busch won Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, his first with his new team, Joe Gibbs Racing, and the first for Toyota.



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