Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 - Ward Burton Notes

Ward Burton will make his 326th NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series start when the green flag drops for the Carolina Dodge Dealers 400.

BURTON ON DARLINGTON."Any racing at Darlington is always great racing. I guess they've put these SAFER walls up now, which is great, but it will definitely change things. The good news is everybody is in the same boat as far as trying to figure things out. The bad news is we only have two hours of practice to do it before we qualify. It may be just a matter of adjusting the way you drive into the corners, but it's not like we left a lot of room up there to begin with. I'm sure we'll be OK come race time, but it will be interesting to see what happens during that first practice.

"Darlington has been a good track for me over the years and I enjoy going there. It's a tough track with a lot of history and it means a lot to be successful at tracks like that. This NetZero Racing team is really working hard this year and we can see that we have the major ingredients of what it takes to be successful. For this team last year there were a lot of questions, and hopefully we've answered some of them with the start we've had so far. There are things that need to be worked on, of course, but everybody has done a good job getting us to the point where we know they are more or less minor things, just like everybody else."

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