No. 1 Jeff Burton

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Too bad Jeff Burton won't have the car that won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway last year.
He won't even have the car that finished sixth in the fall race at Texas nor will he have the car that won the Bristol race last month.
HIs team is bringing a new car to Texas. And the way Burton's been talking, he would prefer a new car to one of his older cars.
“We have gotten off to a solid start but we definitely have some room to grow," said Burton, driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "Every race that we ran and have finished in the top 10, we have truly been a top 10 car. We’ve been a solid top 10 team but we want to be a top four team. We want to lead laps and the lead the most laps in races."
Burton leads the Sprint Cup Series standings after six races and his teammate, Kevin Harvick, is second. It's the first time that two drivers from Richard Childress Racing have held the top two spots in the Cup standings. Burton is coming off a third-place finish at Martinsville Speedway and has one win so far this year, the Bristol race, but leading laps is his main concern at this point of the season.
"We’ve had a slow start to accomplish that but we’re early in some development, as every team is, but there is a lot of growing left to do," Burton said. "We didn’t do that well last year – grow as some of the other teams did – and it showed when the Chase started. We have to focus on what’s ahead of us so we can stay in the top 12 in points.”

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