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The 2024 season was a Harrison Burton would like to forget quickly.
The 24-year-old Nascar driver ended 16. He victory at Daytona International in Coke Zero 400, but as he expressed it, “At that time it is too late.”
This win was only one of his two top-10 finishes last season, but with a fresh start in the XFinity series, Burton has found it again.
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Harrison Burton, Center Right, celebrates with the trophy championship after winning a NASCAR CUP series Auto Race at 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-10s, including each of his last three races.
“It was the best landing site for me to be a better racing car driver, go to a team that really rebuilt from Square One,” Burton told Pakinomist Digital in a recent conversation. “They saw a vision of rebuilding around me and had to put the ball in my court and said, ‘Hi, if you want to drive for us, we will help to put together a team that you are a part of.’ So it was really fun for me to kind of build up this thing and take a team like am racing that had all the desire and will in the world go on and lead and drive well.
“Right now we’re sitting in the playoffs, we start getting some momentum going and I think it’s just getting better and better and better. So it was a great opportunity to go back, rebuild my stock a little.”
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Fans now have an opportunity to take a closer look at Burton as he is shown in Netflix’s “Full Speed”, which like “Drive To Survive” and “Full Swing” gives a full behind the scenes look at and outs in Nascar and its athletes.
“Just the concept and the idea behind ‘Full Speed’ is something that when I heard the first season was coming out, it was super cool, and I like our sport and good to get more knowledge about what we’re doing out there and the people who are in our sport out there and all that was amazing,” Burton said.
“What is so hard to explain to people is if I pick up a football or basketball, I know I’m not an NFL or NBA guy – it’s clearly pretty fast. There’s no racing car for you to drive to see what we’re doing. And then the best way to explain it and do everything that gets the media out there and get an interior look, There is a good option for this document to get media ”.
Now Burton wants fans to see him inside the winner’s circle again. Of course, it’s not easy in Nascar, with fields of dozens of drivers, and only one of them really happy every Sunday.
The NASCAR CUP series runs Harrison Burton, #21, under the NASCAR CUP SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP RACE at Phoenix Raceway. (Mark J. Revilas-prescribed images)
“It’s hard. It’s such a tough mental fight, right? It’s like golf in the way you know you have all these other people and you’re not 50-50 odds to win the game. You’re one in 40, maybe even longer dependent on the day. It’s tough,” Burton said. “It’s always hard to evaluate [success]But the biggest thing for me is progress.
“Did I get better? Did I do a better job here? Am I a better racing car driver going into next year? Everyone will win, but it’s all about what are you going to do to win? What are the victims you want to do or the work you want to put to win? There is no plans to succeed than that.
