like And subscribe to my channel and click the Bell icon to get new video updates Harrison Burton talks about his terrible 2023 North Wilkesboro and running datas old paint Scheme by all appearances it has been a pretty rough sled for Harrison Burton since the Wood Brothers Racing sofa more driver joined NASCAR s Premier series full-time in 2022 Harrison son of 21-time Cup Series driver race winner Jeff Burton isn't he just winless es only had two top 10 finishes in 49 Cup starts over that span but despite a slow start to 2023 and an all-round disappointing rookie season in 2022 the 22-year-old second-generation driver reasonably well these days are optimistic earlier this week in a Ford Racing Zoom call Burton gave several reasons why he is not as repressed as one would expect a driver to be in this crisis Harris and Burton believes that his team is in his no even though Harrison Burton s best finish in a dozen starts this year is 15th where he crossed the Finish Line at both both the auto club Speedway in the Bristol dirt track the youngster actually is quite optimistic about the direction his team is taking that is especially the case after he posted some of the fastest laps of anyone else in the closing stages of last weekend s race at the Kansas Speedway where he finished 30th six laps down it has actually been a good week for us in terms of our preparation said Burton who sits 30th overall and 98 points off the playoff line I have the feeling that we are heading in the right direction we had a really bad result last weekend but really good speed there were a couple of runs where we finished fourth based on metrics in that stit with just average lap times during the course of the race there were stints where we had really good speed I was just involved in a small accident that took away this opportunity this is racing and speed will rule everything late last month at Talladega Burton s number 21 Wood Brothers Racing forward LED for 11 laps the most Burton has LED in a race all season before he catching Rex in two laps and finishing 36th but Burton believes that with luck and continued