Harrison Burton's Playoff Cinderella Story Probably Ends With Last-Lap Crash
3 months agoHarrison Burton's Penske satellite operation at Wood Brothers did benefit somewhat from Penske's unbeatable speed on Sunday at Atlanta with a 16th-place average running position (one of Burton's best of the season), but admittedly he was nowhere near as fast as the three Team Penske drivers, who each won a stage and had three of the four best driver ratings. Considering Burton has still scored fewer overall points than any full-time driver, ignoring the playoff reset, he had virtually no chance of advancing out of the first round to begin with, but that was essentially cemented by his crash in the last-lap Big One. Burton ended up finishing 31st, as he was the only driver involved in that crash who was unable to restart his car to cross the finish line, which cost him a lot of points since he had been running 17th before the crash.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference