"It's not the movement we wanted to found our association with Caterpillar, but we will dig in again on Thursday," Burton said.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Seeing Jeff Burton's rating at the clip of Daytona International Speedway's step on the gas charts or watercourse results wouldn't jolt too many folks around the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series garage. The system things have gone so far during Speed Weeks, though, has raised a few eyebrows. Sporting remodelled Caterpillar colors on the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, Burton's mechanism failed during the start career for the Bud Shootout, then he finished 24th after crashing in Saturday night's race.

"It's not the road we wanted to onset our comradeship with Caterpillar, but we will slap in again on Thursday," Burton said. Other than not bending or breaking anything on the car, things didn't go much better for him during Sunday's qualifying session. Burton rolled out 19th and ran the 12th-best purl at that point, turning a tour around the 2.5-mile tri-oval at 185.958 mph.

When qualifying ended, Burton sat 31st on the charts, signification he will give birth to on the inside of of Row 9 in the right hand Gatorade Duel At Daytona qualifying race. His carry out in that family will settle his starting mess on the Daytona 500. Still, he kept things in perspective, because he knows his troupe concentrated more on tailoring the vehicle to the condition he wants it to employ Thursday than on squeezing stinging shoot out of it. "It wasn't extraordinary, but a godlike run. We hoped to come down here and temper decent," said Burton, who will provoke his 512 profession Sprint Cup Series create Sunday.

With Denny Hamlin and Carl Edwards starting in tiff seven, Burton will have pile of high-horsepower blueprint partners to cover his temperament toward the front. "We knead exceptionally granite on making these cars industry well," Burton said. "I quite feel that is prevailing to takings off. I am really beneficial with what we have." Burton's past at Daytona International Speedway means he's a peril to away any race here.

He won Coke Zero 400 in 2000 and took the hop-pole assign for the 2006 Daytona 500. In the 2008 Daytona 500, Burton led nine of the fixed 12 laps before falling to 13th in the three-lap hurry that proverb Ryan Newman come out in top. With temperatures forewarn near 80 degrees Thursday, Burton knows the follow will coppers a great deal, because it's been at least 15 to 20 degrees cooler than that when he's been on path this week. As the street heats up, it will become a lot slicker.

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