No Cup races lined up for Burton
Second-generation NASCAR driver Jeb Burton, son of 2002 Daytona 500 champion Ward Burton, is not set to make additional Sprint Cup Series starts in 2016 at this time.
However, the Halifax, Virginia native has at least one more start in the second-tier XFINITY Series this season.
“I don’t have any more Cup stuff planned,” Burton said. “I’m going to do some XFINITY stuff with Biagi-DenBeste Racing at Richmond with Estes.”
Burton has competed in two Sprint Cup races this year with a best finish of 29th. He made both starts at Pocono Raceway driving the No. 32 Ford Fusion for Archie St. Hilaire’s Go Fas Racing.
Mason St. Hilaire, general manager for the team, discussed the likelihood of bringing Burton back to drive the car this season.
“We have only a couple more races open this year,” St. Hilaire said. “…We’ve got three races still open with driver and sponsor, and we’ll try to figure that out, but it’s not, you know, not a possibility. It could happen.”
Go Fas Racing’s single-car entry has featured seven drivers in 2016, including Bobby Labonte and Jeffrey Earnhardt. In total, Burton has made 30 starts in the Sprint Cup Series, running as one of five contenders for rookie-of-the-year in 2015. He finished third in the rookie standings.
His career best in the series is a 27th at Martinsville in October of 2015.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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