NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Overview
Event: NASCAR Hall of Fame 200 (Race 21 of 23), 200 Laps – 50/50/100; 105.2 Miles
Location: Martinsville (Va.) Speedway (.526-mile oval)
Date/Broadcast: Oct. 26, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR 90
The Beat on Burton:
Harrison Burton returns to the most familiar circuit for him in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, Martinsville Speedway. Saturday’s 200-lap event will be the 19-year-old driver’s seventh start in NASCAR’s third division at the historic track. He started 16th and finished 22nd in his Gander Trucks debut at the paper-clip shaped oval shortly after turning 16 in October of 2016. Since then, he has registered an average finish of 8.8 across his last five starts at the Virginia track, with a best result of fourth in the fall of 2017.
The second-generation driver, son of Jeff Burton, has posted seven top-five and 10 top-10 finishes while recording an average starting position of 7.3 and an average finish of 11.8 across 20 Gander Truck Series starts this season. Burton finished the regular season sixth in the point standings, but did not qualify for the playoffs because four drivers behind him in points collected a victory. The North Carolina native has posted a Gander Trucks career-best third-place finish six times across his 35 career starts, including four times with the chassis he will be racing on Saturday, KBM-35.
Burton’s crew chief, Mike Hillman Jr., is a two-time champion atop the pit box in the Gander Truck Series. He guided Todd Bodine to Toyota’s first-ever National Series title in 2006 and the duo won the championship again in 2010. Hillman Jr.’s drivers have posted one pole, eight top-five and 13 top-10 finishes resulting in an average finish of 10.0 across 24 starts at Martinsville. He earned a runner-up finish with Bodine twice; in the spring of 2007 and the fall of 2009.
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Safelite AutoGlass, the nation’s largest provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services, will adorn the hood of Burton’s Tundra for 19 of the 23 events on the Gander Trucks schedule in 2019.
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
