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Article: BURTON KEEPS COOL IN CHASE

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October 16, 2006
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. calls Jeff Burton "the new Iceman." Kasey Kahne concurs.

Burton laughs at the notion.

"How soon people forget," he said after his third-place finish Saturday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway kept him atop the Nextel Cup points standings.

Burton nixes the nickname because things haven't been perfect in the Chase. He suffered a flat tire about 10 laps from the finish at Talladega the previous week and finished 27th. Had that not happened, he would have a larger lead on second-place Matt Kenseth heading into Sunday's race at Martinsville Speedway. Instead, Burton leads Kenseth by 45 points halfway through the 10-race championship Chase.

Yet, the moniker -- what two-time ...

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