No. 2 Jeff Burton

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Jeff Burton's fifth place at Pocono Raceway was his fourth straight top 10 finish and his best finish since his third place at Martinsville Speedway in March.
He has never won a race at Michigan and no Chevrolet driver has won at Michigan since 2001 when Jeff Gordon did it.
"I don't know that it's harder. It is a unique track," said Burton, driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "We don't have many tracks that are like this. It looks like California but it's not. It's not like Charlotte, It's not like Atlanta. This is a pretty unique race track. I think when you hit up on something here it probably lasts for a long time. I think that's why you have seen a lot of drivers not win here."
His record at Michigan hasn't been all that good. He hasn's finished in the top 10 since 2002 and the year he won the pole for the race, spring 2006, he finished 42nd.
"You just got to run well," Burton said. "You just got to have good performance. If you have good performance than typically things will go your way. We've obviously had some fortune. We've had some things go our way this year. We've caught some breaks here and there without a doubt. The first thing you have to have is good race cars and good decisions being made, so far to this point we've done that.
"But for us to continue we got to continue to improve. The level of competition will get harder as the year goes on. People will get better, people will improve and we have to improve more than they do if we want to have a chance to number one make the Chase and number two contend for a championship."

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