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: After a five-year absence from competing in a NASCAR race, Ward Burton will drive at Daytona in February in the NextEra Energy 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event. Burton and his 19-year-old son, Jeb, have teamed with Hillman Racing in the Truck Series to run the #27 Chevy this season.
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Spidey, tell me why Jeff talks like an American, and Wahd talks like something else.....from the same family from the same place.....can you explain that?Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View PostCharter member of the Turd Nuggets -
wahd.
his first name is not dick or...something else?
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the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.Comment
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Could be...but anyhow, I'm serious. What is the home town, West Boston Virginia, or something? Don't hold me to that, that's all that comes to mind without looking it up.....how can Jeff and Wahd talk so differently, the accent and inflection? I mean really. It's a mystery to me, if not to anybody else.Originally posted by boxer3main View Postwahd.
his first name is not dick or...something else?
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too much time out in the hollar with popcorn sutton and his damned likkerComment
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His name is Ward. He talks slowly and has a deep accent that his brother does not have.Originally posted by boxer3main View Postwahd.
his first name is not dick or...something else?
I've wondered why they speak so differently, too. (but not enough to really research it)Comment
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I worked with Ward on the Hardee's team late 94 til he left in fall of 95. Ward is Ward - he didn't have any interest in polishing his personna to make him more marketable to sponsors. He's also a "backwoods" kind of guy - he'd rather be hunting or fishing (than making a living driving other than on his terms). Jeff, I believe, worked hard to mainstream himself. If you heard their dad, John, speak you'd know where the accent comes from. vic PS: "Catfish" and "Ding" Bell from The Chief's (Junie Donleavy's) #90 team were MUCH harder to understand!Last edited by krusty; January 27, 2012, 08:13 PM.vic NASCARlandComment
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virginny twang ....Comment
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I reckon so, whatever. My only out-of-the-car experience in Virginia has been at one single gas station close to the West Virginia line, the halfway point to Unit's parents house in Pittsburgh. Been in that store a hundred times, for a while so often that I knew who was working which shift, and I never heard anybody talk like Ward does. I kinda like the way Ward talks. It's kinda more deep-middle South Carolina drawl than anything else I've heard.Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View Post
But in the public eye you have Wahd Button, somebody it would seem you'd have to check for a pulse, and then you have his brother Jeff Burton, the articulate safety advocate. Quite a contrast in persona at least. From the same household. Big difference when the camera is rolling. I'dda never put 'em together in my mind, no way.Charter member of the Turd NuggetsComment
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That Daytona race Wahd won in '02 was a gift.Comment
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Pdub-ya, Seen an interview a few years back with Jeff, He said basically that, he grew up on one side of the tracks, and Ward on the other, two totally different groups of friends and aquaintances.Originally posted by peewee View Post
actually his name is John Edward Burton IIIOriginally posted by boxer3main View Postwahd.
his first name is not dick or...something else?
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That adds even more mystery to it, to me. Not that any of it's all important, it ain't.Originally posted by Caustic Frog View Post
But....yeah, okay. No, I still don't understand it.Charter member of the Turd NuggetsComment
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They say that a child learns speech and language from family, but accents and mannerisms from friends, I kind of understand, but that dosn't change the fact that Ward talks like he has a mouthful of muffler bearings.sigpicComment
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