Harrison Burton races against his Dad

we're gonna get started on the 2021 season feels like we literally just ended 21 or 20 but uh now we're gonna be up on this next year you had a pretty darn good season last year in the nascar xfinity series getting a bunch of trophies how do you manage your expectations for this year given that it's a new year but also a different field yeah so i think the field is going to be as strong as ever i'm super excited my cousin jeb is going to be racing full-time so that'll be a new competitive car on the dinger coming in uh running full time and then you have the pass champion uh who's racing again he's gonna be really hard to beat and on top of that i think joe gibbs racing as an organization is going to be tough right so um you know i hope to be uh the you know the guy right last year was chase briscoe and austin cendrick were the two guys that kind of stood out and wins and things like that um and at the end of the year we kind of put our name into that conversation but not consistently enough um and now this year my expectations are to go out and perform and try and win a championship that's what kind of motivates me in the morning uh you know i wake up and get out of bed and go to the gym that's what i'm thinking about so um nothing really else matters other than winning races and winning championships and and uh so i don't know i i try not to get too excited uh but i'm kind of nuts man i've got my goals printed out and tape them to my mirror look at them every morning i'm crazy about that stuff but uh yeah i think it's uh i think it's gonna be a great year what kind of goals are in the mirror well i've got uh everything the amount of laps i need to lead i think to win a championship the amount of playoff points uh the amount of wins the amount of dms dnfs i want to have i'm out of top fives not the top tens i should be able to read them if i look at them as much as i say i do but i don't really remember all of them i actually fall out of the sheet hey but that's good that's good it's perfect to remind you uh when you're looking at it um you know it didn't take you long to find victory lane beginning of last season but how do you think did you feel more comfortable this year just to start this year given you you've had some time in the nascar xfinity series uh compared to uh starting out the season last year yeah i definitely feel more comfortable um i can look and back on on weight races i've done well races i haven't take those experiences and and try and be a better driver from those um yeah so i'm i'm definitely more confident going into this year um you know last year was a big challenge for me uh to go to some of these racetracks for the first time in an xfinity car without practice without qualifying and go fire off lap one in the race and try and go win was a big challenge but uh on the other side of that coming off of that year now i feel more confident in my ability to do that kind of thing right i feel like all the the field as a whole has grown everyone should be really really well versed in that sort of field now because it's what we do for a whole year so now going into this season i think everyone's confidence is going to be high and should put on some great races from lap one no matter where we are you talk about confidence and with confidence comes preparation and obviously we talked a little bit earlier about kind of the unorthodox methods of preparation and training for a nascar season and you look at how much that's changed and i don't know what your dad did necessarily to prepare for a nascar season when he was racing but do you ever talk about him and kind of you ever talk with him about what you're doing now versus what he did and does anything surprise him definitely um my dad was teammates with mark martin who is the most famous fitness nascar guy right he's in his uh he might be in his 60s his late 50s somewhere around there now right and he's probably still got a six-pack abs um right so um my dad kind of was teammates with him for a long time and that's who kind of shaped him in that direction so when i was a kid man i watched my dad work his tail end off in the gym and he would try and get me in there but i was real uncoordinated when i was a little kid so i couldn't do too much but now i think he's excited to see me kind of follow that path that he took um even even down to the the mixed martial arts deal my dad trained in that uh when when he was uh training for um his races his trainer was sensei ken was his name and he worked out with that guy all the time man and so uh it is pretty cool to turn around and talk to my dad about those kind of things and things that he learned worked and didn't work um and so yeah it was pretty awesome and and man he's got he's got a iron will for sure and hopefully i got some of that whenever we work out together he doesn't work out as much as he used to anymore but gosh he still tries to hang with me and he gives me a run for my money oh man i bet and uh you know you kind of talk about him trying to to keep up with you i saw you guys race go-karts not too long ago who won yeah ah man my dad's gonna be hurt when i put this out but i won uh he was uh he was a little rusty he didn't i don't think he's been in any race car other than the nbc race car before right yeah yeah since he retired like he when he retired he quit boom he was done um and i'm trying to get him to run some kind of race against me just to do it for uh just a memory to have right right and um the go-karts have been a good little entry to that but to be fair i have had him beat and experience i've run mine a lot more than he has that's true that's true it all comes to experience maybe he can go like full circle and you can have him run laps around the track you can throw tennis balls at him yeah that's a that's a damn that's a good that's a good idea i might just turn uh stand down there turn one and throw some tennis balls at him so he stays focused like he did to me when i was a little kid for real absolutely well uh harrison uh all the best luck to you in the 2021 season can't wait to uh see what comes your way man yeah absolutely i appreciate it should be fun and hopefully the fans at home enjoy it as much as we do because i know i'm gonna have a blast you