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The 2024 season went to Harrison Burton would like to forget quickly.
The 24 -year -old Nascar pilot finished 16th in the Cup classification, which led to his departure from Wood Brothers Racing. He had a victory in Daytona International in Coca -Cola Zero 400, but as he said, “at that time, it’s too late.”
That victory was only one of its two finals of the 10 best last season, but with a new beginning in the Xfinity series, Burton has found it again.
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Harrison Burton, center to the right, celebrates with the championship trophy after winning an automotive race of the Nascar Cup series in Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
This season, now as a member of Am Racing, has six top 10, including each of its last three races.
“That was the best landing place to be a better racing driver, going to a team that was really rebuilding from the starting point,” Burton told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview. “They saw a vision to rebuild around me and had to put the ball on my court and said: ‘Hey, if you want to drive for us, we will help put together a team from which you are part.’
“At this time, we are sitting inside the playoffs, we are starting to put some impulse, and I think it will only improve and better.
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Fans now have the opportunity to see Burton more closely, since it appears in “Full Speed” of Netflix, which, as “Drive to Survive” and “Full Swing”, offers a complete look behind the scene of the Nascar Ins-outs and their athletes.
“Only the concept and the idea behind ‘Full Speed’ is something that when I heard the first season came out, it was very great and I think it is good for our sport and it is good to get more knowledge about what we do and the people who are in our sport and everything incredible,” Burton said.
“What is so difficult to explain to people is that if I pick up a football or basketball, I know that I am not a type of the NFL or the NBA: it is evident quite fast. There is no car for you to drive to see what we do. And, therefore, the best way to explain it and do everything that is that the media is and get an internal look of what is really really, and I am a good opportunity and what is a good opportunity and what is a good opportunity general.
Now, Burton wants fans to see it inside the winner’s circle again. Of course, that is not easy in Nascar, with fields of dozens of drivers, and only one of them really happy every Sunday.
The pilot of the Nascar Harrison Burton Cup series, #21, during the Nascar Cup championship race in Phoenix Raceway. (Mark J. Rebila-Imagn images)
“It’s difficult. It’s such a hard mental battle, right? It’s like golf that way where, you already know, you have all these other people, and you have no 50-50 chances of winning the game. You are one in 40, maybe even more depending on the day. It’s difficult,” Burton said. “It is always difficult to evaluate [success]But the most important thing for me is progress.
“Did I become better? Did I do a better job here? Am I a better career pilot next year? Everyone wants to win, but is it on, what are you going to do to win? What are the sacrifices you will do or the work you are going to put?
