Greg Biffle
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Bank of America 500
Saturday October 13
7:00 PM Eastern - ABC/PRN
Fast Facts
In the Coca-Cola 600 this spring, Greg Biffle cut a tire on lap 45, causing irreparable damage to the No. 16 Ford Fusion.
Biffle has two wins, five top-five finishes and eight top-10 finishes in 13 NASCAR Busch Series starts at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
With the 23rd place finish last week at Talladega, Biffle and the team are currently 16th in the point standings, 118 points out of the 13th position. He is only two points behind Casey Mears in the 15th position and three points behind Ryan Newman in the 14th position.
This weekend Biffle will run the 3M Ford Fusion.
Greg Biffle
Team: No. 16 3M Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin
Chassis: RK-431 California ‘07 – finished 15th
Michigan ‘07 – finished 38th
Chicago ’07 – finished 11th
Biffle on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“Racing at home is fun and a little stressful at the same time. We’re taking a car that is very similar to the one we won with at Kansas, so hopefully we’ll have some luck with it this weekend. We cut a tire early in the Coca-Cola 600 and hit the wall hard enough to take us out of the race at that point. We’ll need to work on overall grip. That seems to be a problem for us every time we go there and especially with the new tire compound. We lost a couple of positions in the points at Talladega and our goal these last few weeks is to get those back and maybe even pick up 13th if we can.”
Crew Chief Greg Erwin on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“We’re taking the car that we most recently finished 11th with at Chicago. It’s been re-bodied with a newer style body that is very similar to the body on the car we won with at Kansas. The things that you focus on at Charlotte are getting the car to turn through the center and working on an overall lack of grip. We’ll have the same tires we had in the spring, so we just have to adjust the handling and pit strategy to work for us with the tire wear we expect.”
