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Jeff Burton was asked if there are any advantages to being a veteran driver over a new driver when it comes to understanding and setting up the new car in NASCAR. "I think in some cases it's advantageous to be really ignorant and naive about your thought process," Burton said. "In other ways it's a huge disadvantage. Sometimes if you just don't know any better, there are times that a car can be doing stuff that a driver just can't get through although it still might make good lap times. I think the best drivers don't really care what it feels like as long as it will make grip. The only thing I can tell you is I have been at a point in my career where we had a lot of teams coming in and they were doing stuff that I wasn't able to be successful with, but the reason I wasn't able to be successful with it was because the way we were doing it wasn't working. When we learned how to do it, then I had no problem doing it. So the question is, were we not being able to do it because I had in my head what a car was supposed to feel like, or was it because we didn't have it doing the right thing? That's tough to answer." -- USA Today



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