Well, I was waiting for Nawthurn Burton to speak up....I knew he would.
It's also done something virtually unheard of. Unflappable Jeff Burton is livid.
"It's pissed us off," he said. "It's made us mad. It's made us very mad. We've done nothing wrong. We have no trick that's made us run well.
"We've worked hard. We've worked smart. And someone in the media who chose to use unreliable sources has tainted that. And it pisses me off and it pisses my team off and I have little patience for it."
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Journalists have a responsibility to report the facts. If you want to pretend to be an investigative journalist then do a full job of investigating," Burton said.
"And if a true investigation had been done this story never would have been on air. He'd have found it to be erroneous. But he's chosen to stand his ground on half the facts. If you're going to be investigative get all the facts. That hasn't happened in this case.
"We had nothing wrong with a wheel. Nothing. There was nothing NASCAR looked at that NASCAR had a problem with. There's nothing we're not able to take back. Bob's story is a fabricated story by someone.
"When I say that, I'm not saying Bob fabricated this story, I'm saying someone did, and Bob chose to believe someone that.......{Ack I missed that and I'm not going back to Nascar.com they foul up my computer with all that moving stuff. Not much more there anyway}
http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/09/19/jburton_rcr_speed/index.html