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Burton doesn't lay it all on Childress

Associated Press

Thursday, October 15, 2009

CONCORD, N.C. -- Jeff Burton can find plenty of reasons why Richard Childress Racing has struggled this season. The boss isn't one of them. The NASCAR veteran defended Childress on Thursday, saying the entire organization is at fault for RCR's nightmarish 2009, when one of the most successful teams failed to land a single driver in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Burton said NASCAR's ban on offseason testing and a lack of good infrastructure within the company sent RCR into a tails ...

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