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Jeff Burton

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Jeff Burton's interest in racing began at age 5, watching his older brother Ward run karts in South Boston, Va. Eventually he began racing and won the state kart championship twice before venturing into stock car racing.

He recorded 21 NASCAR Weekly Racing Series wins prior to moving up to the Busch Series. Success followed him there as he posted four wins, 15 top-fives and three poles in five seasons before moving up to NASCAR's top divison, where he has garnered 19 career victories.

In 1994, Burton ran the full season for the established Stavola Brothers Racing team. He qualified for all but one race that year and won a hotly contested battle for the 1994 MAXX Rookie of the Year title.

In 2002, Despite a year of unprecedented success for Roush Racing, Burton shared in very little of that success. For the first time since 1997, Burton was shut out of Victory Lane. He finished 12th in the Winston Cup standings, his worst finish since he was 13th in 1996.

Burton garnered four consecutive top-five finishes in the standings from 1997-2000. But four finishes of 30th or worse in the first six races of 2001 put Burton and his No. 99 Roush Racing CITGO Supergard Ford team in a hole from which it really didn't recover.

The 2000 season has been Burton's high point, thus far. He finished third in points, with 15 top-five finishes.

Burton moved to Richard Childress Racing in 2004, when they signed him to a multi-year agreement to drive its No. 30 America Online Chevrolet. Burton recorded a 12th place finish in his debut with RCR at Michigan in August 2004. He was moved to the team's No. 31 Cingular Wireless team beginning with the 2005 season.