Cheerios will return to NASCAR next season. General Mills has extended its sponsorship of the No. 31 car driven by Jeff Burton. Cheerios will serve as the primary sponsor of Burton for six races in 2013 and act as an associate sponsor for the remaining races on the schedule. The company had displayed its Wheaties [...]
Luke Lambert will be upon the pit box for Jeff Burton as the crew chief for the No.31 Chevrolet of Richard Childress Racing in 2013. Lambert acted as crew chief for Burton late in the 2011 season. This season he was the crew chief for Elliott Sadler’s No.2 Nationwide Series team. The move became necessary [...]
Jeff Burton has steadfastly believed he would drive the No. 31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in 2013. The veteran driver recently told reporters that he never worried about being replaced by Kurt Busch or any other driver for next season. “I never worried about being replaced,” Burton said Tuesday during a Charlotte Motor Speedway [...]
Jeff Burton will have a new spotter starting this weekend at Richmond International Raceway. The Virginia born driver will be spotted by Mike Dillon on Saturday night. Richard Childress Racing has confirmed that Brett Griffin, who had been the spotter for Burton, will no longer act in that capacity. Griffin also serves as the spotter [...]
Jeff Burton, driver of the No.31 Caterpillar Chevrolet will be adorned with the colors of CAT Global Mining this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. Wherever you go in the mining world, you’ll find Caterpillar. From underground coal mines in the United States to gold mines in Africa and iron ore mines in Australia, Caterpillar products [...]
Jeff Burton will have a different sponsor on the No. 31 this weekend at Pocono Raceway. EnerSys will serve as the primary sponsor of the Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. EnerSys is the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. Which is really just a fancy way of talking about batteries sales. Burton, 45, [...]
One of three drivers to take place in a tire test at Bristol was Jeff Burton. After running some laps there the driver of the #31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing pronounced the top grove dead. “top groove is gone. Don’t expect to see anyone up there in August” The banking at Bristol has been [...]
Veteran crew chief Drew Blickensderfer has been named the newest crew chief for Jeff Burton, driver of the #31 Caterpillar Chevrolet. Blickensderfer will take over the role which had been occupied by Luke Lambert since July. Lambert took over the role mid-season from Todd Berrier. Under Lambert the #31 car was in contention in the [...]
With Richard Childress saying the door had all but closed on contract talks with Clint Bowyer it’s questionable if his race team has four full time cars in 2012. While the bosses’ grandson Austin Dillion is making the move up the ladder to the Nationwide Series his Sprint Cup schedule is to be limited to [...]
Two drivers who were Chase contenders last year who are little more then pretenders this year are Jeff Burton and Mark Martin. Considering they finished 12th and 13th in the final standings last year perhaps more people should have seen disappointment,ent coming. Combined last year they won 0 races. Combined they notched 13 top-5′s… less [...]
