Q) A lot of people were asking about the video of you [Jeff Burton] and Clint Bowyer after The Daytona 500 and they could see it but not hear it. Can you tell us a little bit more about that and what happened and why you guys were mad? A Burton) “Clint and I were mad, but we weren’t mad at what people thought we were mad at. The conversation that Clint and I had we’ll keep to ourselves. There’s no strife amongst the drivers, there’s none of that. We did have a discussion and it is clear that you can’t have productive conversations as soon as the race is over. That just can never happen, never has happened, never will happen. But there’s nothing leaving Daytona that we have any concern about whatsoever.” Q) Could you two have helped each other more coming down the stretch? A Burton) “To be honest I haven’t watched a replay of the race and until I go back and really analyze what we could have done differently I don’t know. I never at any point felt like Clint did anything to jeopardize my opportunity to win the race. That’s all I know. On the surface of it when the race was over I never once felt – I think everybody thought I was mad at Clint like Clint did something to me that I thought he shouldn’t have done but that was the furthest from the case. I never once felt like Clint did anything to negatively affect my race. And by the way, you know I’ve said this for years I don’t expect my teammate to help me if it’s going to hurt him. I never expected it and I don’t expect it now so any thought that I was mad at Clint and that I felt like Clint could have done something to help my cause – that’s totally misconstrued. I don’t think Clint did anything wrong in that race at all in regards to running with me.”(GM Racing PR)(2-23-2008)
