Jeff Burton will leave the television studio this weekend to make his first start of the season. The 21-time Cup winner left Richard Childress Racing at the end of last season and initially announced a deal as a test driver for Michael Waltrip Racing with only one guaranteed race – Sunday at Las Vegas.
He’s since been named an analyst for NBC Sports Group’s coverage of NASCAR. Although Las Vegas is the only announced race to date, Burton said he feels more races are coming.
“There are other ones we feel pretty sure about that we’re going to run, but we haven’t really talked about it yet so we might change our mind,” he said. “We got to run where it make sense to run and not just run because we want to run. It’s got to be part of a plan and if it’s not, we’re making a mistake.”
