J. BURTON CALLS FOR RANDOM DRUG TESTS

Driver Says NASCAR Can Set Sports Standard

Nextel Cup driver Jeff Burton believes NASCAR should begin random drug
testing to help make sure that stock-car racing is a drug-free environment.

"I'm not aware of anybody using drugs in the sport," Burton said. "But I
wish we were more proactive in testing.

"I wish we'd do random drug testing. When you subject yourself to this
sport -- whether you're a pit crew member or a driver -- you owe it to the
people that are doing it with you to be sober, straight and clean."

NASCAR's substance-abuse policy allows for testing based on reasonable
suspicion, but drivers and crew members are not tested on a regular, random
basis.

Burton said he believes NASCAR is ahead of other professional sports in
many areas and would like to see it excel in drug testing as well.

"I'd rather look back five years from now and say maybe we were trying a
little too hard rather than saying we weren't trying hard enough," he said.