NASCAR's Harrison Burton talks move to Xfinity Series, appearance in Netflix documentary

The 2024 play was 1 Harrison Burton would similar to hide astir quickly.

The 24-year-old NASCAR operator finished 16th successful the Cup standings, starring to his departure from Wood Brothers Racing. He did person a triumph astatine Daytona International successful the Coke Zero 400, but arsenic helium enactment it, "by that point, it's excessively late."

That triumph was conscionable 1 of his 2 top-10 finishes past season, but with a caller commencement successful the Xfinity Series, Burton has recovered it again.

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Harrison Burton, halfway right, celebrates with the title trophy aft winning a NASCAR Cup Series car contention astatine Daytona International Speedway connected Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 successful Daytona Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

This season, present arsenic a subordinate of AM Racing, helium already has six top-10s, including each of his past 3 races.

"That was the champion landing spot for maine to beryllium a amended racecar driver, spell to a squad that truly was rebuilding from quadrate one," Burton told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. "They saw a imaginativeness to rebuild astir maine and had to enactment the shot successful my tribunal and said, ‘hey, if you privation to thrust for us, we’ll benignant of assistance enactment a squad unneurotic that you are a portion of.’ So that was truly amusive for maine to benignant of physique this happening up and instrumentality a squad similar AM Racing that had each the privation and volition successful the satellite to spell contend and pb and tally well.

"Right now, we're sitting wrong the playoffs, we're starting to get immoderate momentum going, and I deliberation it'll conscionable get amended and amended and better. So it was a large accidental to benignant of spell back, rebuild up my banal a small bit."

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Fans present person an accidental to get a person look astatine Burton, arsenic he's featured successful Netflix's "Full Speed," which, similar "Drive to Survive" and "Full Swing," gives a afloat behind-the-scenes look astatine the ins and outs of NASCAR and its athletes.

"Just the conception and thought down ‘Full Speed’ is thing that erstwhile I heard the archetypal play was coming out, it was ace chill and I deliberation bully for our athletics and bully to get much cognition astir what we bash retired determination and the radical that are successful our athletics retired determination and each that was awesome," Burton said. 

"The happening that’s truthful hard to explicate to radical is if I prime up a shot oregon basketball, I cognize I’m not an NFL oregon NBA feline – it’s evident beauteous quick. There’s nary racecar for you to spell thrust to spot what we do. And so, the champion mode to benignant of explicate it and bash each that is get the media retired determination and get an wrong look astatine what it's truly like, and I deliberation that is ace chill and what's a bully accidental astir this documentary successful general."

Now, Burton wants fans to spot him wrong the winner's ellipse again. Of course, that is not casual successful NASCAR, with fields of dozens of drivers, and lone 1 of them genuinely blessed each Sunday.

NASCAR Cup Series operator Harrison Burton, #21, during the NASCAR Cup Series Championship contention astatine Phoenix Raceway. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

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"It’s hard. It’s specified a hard intelligence battle, right? It's similar play successful that mode where, you know, you've got each these different people, and you're not 50-50 likelihood to triumph the game. You're 1 successful 40, possibly adjacent longer depending connected the day. It’s tough," Burton said. "It’s ever hard to measure [success], but the biggest happening for maine is progress. 

"Did I get better? Did I bash a amended occupation here? Am I a amended racecar operator going into adjacent year? Everyone wants to win, but it's about, what are you going to bash to win? What are the sacrifices you’re going to marque oregon the enactment you’re going to enactment successful to win? There’s nary blueprint to occurrence different than that. That’s the biggest thing. and what is, you know, the sacrifices you're gonna marque oregon the enactment you're gonna enactment successful to win? That’s the biggest thing."

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