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The 2024 season was a Harrison Burton would like to forget quickly.
The 24 -year -old Nascar driver finished 16th in the Cup classification, which led to his departure from Wood Brothers Racing. He won a victory at Daytona International in the Coke Zero 400, but as he said: “At that time, it is too late.”
This victory was only one of his two top 10 last season, but with a new start in the Xfinity series, Burton found it.
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Harrison Burton, center on the right, famous with the championship trophy after winning a Nascar Cup Series motor race in Daytona International Speedway on Saturday August 24, 2024 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (AP photo / Phelan M. Ebenhack)
This season, now as a member of Am Racing, he already has six TOP-10, each of his last three races.
“It was the best landing place for me to be a better racing car driver, go to a team that really rebuilt Square One,” Burton told PK Press Club Digital in a recent interview. “They saw a vision to rebuild around me and had to put the ball in my court and said:” Hey, if you want to drive for us, we will somehow help us to assemble a team of which you are part. “It was therefore really fun for me to build this thing and take a team like AM’s race which had all the lack and the will in the world to go and run and run well.
“Right now, we are sitting inside the playoffs, we are starting to take momentum, and I think it will get better and better.
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Fans now have the opportunity to see Burton more closely because he has appeared in “Full Speed” by Netflix, who, like “Drive to Survive” and “Full Swing”, gives a full look behind the scenes on the ins and outs of Nascar and his athletes.
“The concept and the idea behind ‘Full Speed’ are something that when I heard the first season, it was super cool and I think good for our sport and good to have more knowledge of what we do there and the people who are in our sport there and everything that was great,” said Burton.
“The thing that is so difficult to explain to people is that if I take a football or a basketball, I know that I am not a guy from the NFL or the NBA – it’s apparent fairly quickly. There is no racing car for you to go to see what we do. And therefore, the best way to explain it and do everything to do the media and get a good opportunity on the general.”
Now Burton wants fans to see him again in the winner’s circle. Of course, it is not easy in Nascar, with fields of dozens of drivers, and only one really happy every Sunday.
The pilot of the Nascar Cup series, Harrison Burton, # 21, during the Nascar Cup Series championship race at Phoenix Raceway. (Images of Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn)
“It’s difficult. It’s such a difficult mental battle, right? It’s like golf course how, you know, you have all these other people, and you are not 50-50 to win the game. You are one in 40, maybe even more depending on the day. It is difficult,” said Burton. “It is always difficult to assess [success]But the most important thing for me is progress.
“Did I go better? Did I do a better job here? Am I a better racing car driver for next year? Everyone wants to win, but is it, what are you going to win? There is no BluePrint to succeed otherwise than that.
