Tropicana 400 - Ward Burton Notes

Ward Burton will make his 340th NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series start when the green flag drops for the Tropicana 400 at Chicagoland (Joliet, Ill.) Speedway.

BURTON ON CHICAGOLAND…”I couldn’t be happier to be thinking about Chicago after the weekend we had in Daytona. That’s one good thing about the NASCAR schedule; you don’t have time to worry about what happened to you during the last race, you’re too busy getting ready for the next one. The NetZero Chevrolet that we are taking to Chicago is one of our favorites. We ran it in Michigan and Fontana and we qualified really well with it in both places and it ran well too. You need to run well in Chicago because there are a bunch of races on the schedule in the last half of the season that are mile and a half tracks a lot like this one. If you don’t have your mile and a half program working right now, you could be in trouble. We’ve had a lot of trouble lately - a lot of bad luck - and we need to get back on track. 25th in points isn’t where this team should be. We’re better than that and NetZero and all of our sponsors deserve better. The guys on our team work too hard to be satisfied with 25th. We may not make it into the Top 10 on points, but there is still a lot on the line and we can’t give up. There are too many things at stake still.”

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