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Jeff Burton won’t return to the Richard Childress Racing No. 31 next season. The workforce introduced that Burton would be leaving the workforce at season’s finish on Wednesday.
“We’ve been working exhausting to try to get all the funding in place to have four Sprint Cup teams in 2014,” Childress stated. “With the date on the calendar getting closer to 2014, we just couldn’t run partially funded teams subsequent year. Realizing what Jeff’s plans have been in 2015, he and I labored out an settlement for him to step out of the No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet after this season.”
Burton mentioned that he had deliberate to maneuver on to other opportunities on the end of 2014, and that the staff and he determined to speed up that. He also said that he does not have any plans for 2014 lined up.
“I will be sincere with you, I do not know, I have been so entrenched in serious about the 31 and racing for a championship and, I don’t wish to say this just fell on me but — I have never had a complete lot of time to assume by it,” Burton said.
“I love racing and I nonetheless have a ardour for it — however a part of the realities are, what alternatives are going to be there? I believe I’m simply going to must see what comes in front of me. I don’t anticipate doing one thing that I do not assume could be aggressive.
Since becoming a member of Richard Childress Racing in 2005, Burton, forty six, has four wins, although his last was in 2008. While Burton is departing his sponsor, Caterpillar, is staying with RCR.
While Childress stated that the group did not have the funding for 4 cars, just one automotive and driver mixture for next season has been finalized for the staff. That’s Paul Menard within the No. 27. Austin Dillon, his grandson, is probably going headed to the Cup Sequence in one other car, in order that leaves a 3rd open. May it presumably be Ryan Newman?
And whereas Burton is unclear about his 2014 plans, it’s only a guess, however don’t be shocked if he is involved in broadcasting in some capacity in 2015 when NASCAR’s new television offers with Fox and NBC begin. When asked Wednesday about television, Burton expressed his interest.
Jeff Burton out at Richard Childress Racing at the end of the season
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