Greg Biffle Advance
Texas Motor Speedway
November 3rd-6th Nextel Cup Series
Dickies 500 Sunday 2:50PM
Greg Biffle
Team: No. 16 National Guard Ford Taurus
Crew Chief: Doug Richert
Chassis: RK-275 (won at California and Texas)
Biffle on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
“I’m looking forward to going to Texas this weekend. I’ve had some success there in all three NASCAR Series and we’re taking the car that we won with in the spring. I look for this weekend to be a good race for us and hopefully we’ll gain some more ground on Tony (Stewart). We’re testing for Phoenix this weekend and some of our teammates will be in Homestead doing the same. Roush is putting everything into a third championship and the National Guard team is more focused that I’ve ever seen them. It’s an exciting position to be in right now.”
Crew Chief Doug Richert on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
“We’re taking the same car that we won with at Texas earlier this year. It’s had some body updates but it is also the same car we finished seventh with at Atlanta last weekend. We have decided to take it to Texas this time because it has been a good car for us this year and if we start with the race set-up we ran there earlier this year and make any necessary changes to correlate with any track surface changes, we should be okay. We’re attacking these final tracks with 120% of our effort and we’re going there with the plan to win and lead every lap.”
Fast Facts
With the seventh place finish at Atlanta, Greg Biffle moved up to third in the point standings. He trails leader Tony Stewart by 75 points and has a 32-point advantage over fourth.
Biffle’s most recent finishes at the final three: Texas (1st); Phoenix (second when contact on pit road sent a bumper bar through the radiator and Biffle to the garage for a 41st place finish); Homestead (1st).
During the spring race Biffle led 219 of 334 laps on his way to his second win of 2005. He took the checkered flag 3.244 seconds before second-place finisher, Jamie McMurray.
In addition to his Cup Series record at Texas, Biffle also has one win and three top-five finishes in five NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series attempts at the 1.5-mile oval.
Biffle and the National Guard team are spending two days in Phoenix this week preparing for the upcoming event at the one-mile oval.
This weekend the National Guard Ford will feature the signature red, white and blue paint scheme.
