{"id":1128,"date":"2011-04-19T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2011-04-19T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:47:54","slug":"burton-signs-extension-with-rcr-cat-staying-on-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/04\/19\/burton-signs-extension-with-rcr-cat-staying-on-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton signs extension with RCR, CAT staying on #31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Jeff+Burton+2011+NASCAR+Daytona+Speedweek+5siUyJcNmIOl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Veteran driver Jeff Burton will continue to drive the #31 Caterpillar Chevrolet in the Sprint Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Burton joined RCR racing in August of 2004 with a 12th place finish at Michigan, previously he had raced at Roush Racing in the #99. Burton began sporting the yellow and black Caterpillar colors in 2009 after Sprint forced RCR to end it&#8217;s contract with AT&amp;T.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining RCR Burton has 4 victories, the last coming at Charlotte in 2008. In 19 seasons at the cup level he has 21 career victories.<\/p>\n<p>The exact financial terms of Burton&#8217;s new deal have not been revealed but the 43-year-old has been on record saying he would like to end his career at RCR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran driver Jeff Burton will continue to drive the #31 Caterpillar Chevrolet in the Sprint Cup Series. Burton joined RCR racing in August of 2004 with a 12th place finish at Michigan, previously he had raced at Roush Racing in the #99. Burton began sporting the yellow and black Caterpillar colors in 2009 after Sprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[302,534],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-1128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-jeff-burton","8":"tag-richard-childress-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}