Greg Biffle
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Checker Auto Parts 500
Sunday November 11
3:00 PM Eastern – ABC/MRN
Fast Facts:
In the spring race at Phoenix, Greg Biffle and the team fought an ill-handling racecar all day before finishing 17th.
Biffle has two wins, five top-five finishes and eight top-10 finishes in nine NASCAR Busch Series starts at Phoenix.
Biffle clenched the NASCAR Busch Series Championship at PIR in 2002. He entered the racing needing to finish at least one position ahead of Jason Keller to capture the title. Biffle finished third and Keller finished fourth.
With the 33rd place finish last week in Texas Biffle and the team are currently 16th in the point standings, 143 points out of the 13th position.
This weekend Biffle will run the red and black Dish Network paint scheme.
Greg Biffle
Team: No. 16 Dish Network Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin
Chassis: RK-472 Last ran Dover; finished 6th
Loudon; finished 31st
Biffle on racing at Phoenix International Raceway:
“I always look forward to racing at Phoenix for a number of reasons. The track is very technical and it’s almost like an oval road course because of the different corners and dogleg on the backstretch. Phoenix really challenges the driver, and those are the tracks that are the most fun. We’ve run well there in the Busch car and had some decent finishes in the Cup car. I think we’re making progress as a team on the COT program, and hopefully we can add to that information this weekend. We didn’t have a great run last weekend at all, so it would be good for the team if we could rebound with a solid finish in Phoenix.”
Crew Chief Greg Erwin on racing at Phoenix International Raceway:
“We’re taking the car we finished sixth with at Dover earlier this year and I think it should be pretty good for us at Phoenix this weekend. The COT cars are all pretty similar, so I don’t think the likelihood of a driver having a “favorite car” is as high with these cars as with the old ones. We’re working a lot off of what the engineering staff is learning from the COT models as well as the notes we get at each race and test, and that’s really what’s most important at this point: gaining information for the 2008 season. We’ll focus on getting the car to turn well through the center of the corners on the long runs at Phoenix and brake management will also be a key. Greg did a great job with that at Martinsville and it paid off. A good finish this weekend would definitely be a great boost heading into Homestead.”
