 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Slow-starting team dumps crew chief
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CORNELIUS, N.C. -- Michael Waltrip Racing, still trying to find
its way out of a terrible start to its first season in NASCAR Nextel
Cup racing, turned to Jason Burdett to replace crew chief Matt
Borland on Dale Jarrett's No. 44 Toyota.
It was the third crew chief change for the Waltrip team in less
than a month.
Borland, who came to the Waltrip team from Penske Racing South,
where he was crew chief for Ryan Newman, turned down the job as the
new team's technical director and lef...
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