No. 2 Jeff Burton

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It could be said that Dover International Speedway is the track that gave Jeff Burton a second chance.
He won the Cup race at Dover in September of 2006, ending a 176-race winless streak. It was his first Cup win with Richard Childress Racing and put him among the elite drivers in Cup. In his two races at Dover last year, he was seventh and 12th.
"Dover is an exceptionally fast race track," said Burton, driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "For a mile-long race track, it generates a lot of speed. You're in the throttle a lot of the time, there's a lot of banking and you really have to work hard to get your car to turn well."
The car his team is bringing to Dover is the same car he had at Texas Motor Speedway. He started 35th and finished sixth at Texas.
Burton has one win this year, coming at Bristol, and is coming off a sixth place finish at Lowe's Motor Speedway last weekend.
"We've run well this year," Burton said. "We haven't run great this year, but we've run really well. One of the key components that we look at is the driver rating - it's a pretty smart statistic to look at. If you look at the number of laps that we've run in the top 10, the number of quality passes that we've had, obviously we have been a top-five, top-six, top-seven car. We've had less trouble than other people have. We are a team that deserves to be where we are but we haven't led a lot of laps and we haven't put some of the fast lap times that some other teams have. Our strength has been that we've been good on the track."

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