Greg Biffle Advance
Atlanta Motor Speedway
October 28th-30th Nextel Cup Series
Bass Pro Shops/MBNA 500 Sunday 1:00PM
Greg Biffle
Team: No. 16 Charter Communications/National Guard Ford Taurus
Crew Chief: Doug Richert
Chassis: RK-275 (won at Fontana at finished third at Charlotte two weeks ago)
Biffle on racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway:
“I like racing at Atlanta, it’s wide and fast and it’s just good racing. We’ve had some success there in both the Busch and Cup Series. We finished third there in the spring and went back for a test last week. Unfortunately, we weren’t really happy with either of the cars we took for the test, so we’ve decided to take the car we finished third with at Charlotte. I’m just happy to have Martinsville behind us and I’m really looking forward to these next four races.”
Crew Chief Doug Richert on racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway:
“We tested at Atlanta last week and just didn’t feel like we were up to par with the other teams who were down there testing that day. We’ve decided to take the Charlotte car because we feel that it is one of our best cars for that type of track right now. We won with it in California and had a solid third place finish in Charlotte two weeks ago. We should still be able to go back and use some of our race notes from the spring but the cars that we tested were a lot looser than they should be, so we’ll need to make some set-up adjustments. Atlanta fits Greg’s driving style and I look for us to have a good run this weekend.”
Fast Facts
With his 20th place finish at Martinsville, Greg Biffle fell to the fourth position in the point standings. He currently trails leader Tony Stewart by 83 points and has a 66-point advantage over fifth place.
Biffle’s most recent finishes at the final four: Atlanta (3rd); Texas (1st); Phoenix (running second when contact with another car on pit road sent a bumper bar through the radiator and Biffle to the garage for a 41st place finish); Homestead (1st).
In addition to his Cup Series record at Atlanta, Biffle has one win, three top-fives and five top-10’s in five NASCAR Busch Series attempts at the 1.54-mile oval.
This weekend the National Guard Ford will feature the red, white and blue Charter paint scheme.
