Ward Burton will make his 351st NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series start when the
green flag drops for the EA Sports 500 at Talladega (Ala) Superspeedway
Sunday afternoon.
BURTON ON TALLADEGA... "Talladega's a crapshoot. Always has been, always will
be as long as we run restrictor plates there. It's a game of strategy in
some respects. You have to plan ahead and you have to be able to figure out
who you can run with. You need to know who you can pit with if need be and
then you have to plan to make a new plan at a moment's notice. We should
have a pretty good NetZero Chevrolet and we're hoping to have better results
than we've had the last two plate races. It's a game of luck at Talladega,
really, and we hope luck will be on our side."
TALLADEGA NOTES OF INTEREST
The Haas CNC Racing team has opted to utilize chassis 008 this weekend.
This car has been run twice this season and it was planned that it would be
utilized at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway earlier in the season, but
was damaged in a practice accident and has since been rebuilt.
Ward Burton has made 18 starts on the 2.66-mile Talladega, Alabama track.
Burton has posted five Top-10 finishes at the Superspeedway and three Top-10
Qualifying efforts, including a 10th-place start earlier this season.
The Haas CNC Racing team spent Tuesday and Wednesday testing at Lowe's
Motor Speedway in preparation for the upcoming race at that facility.
The NetZero Racing team remained in 29th place in the NASCAR NEXTEL point
standings following the event at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Burton
holds down 28th place in the driver standings.
Ward will be involved in two events for the state of Alabama after
Saturday's practice. Ward will be meeting with the governor/staff and other
Alabama conservation notables and will be filming a Public Service
Announcement for the Alabama 4H. The topic for the PSA will be firearm
safety and hunting ethics. The 4H has over seven million members ages 9-19
nationwide including over 160,000 members in the state of Alabama.
Burton will also be filming a PSA for the Alabama Game Department
concerning hunting and tree stand safety.
