Greg Biffle
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Pocono 500
Sunday June 10
12:30 PM Eastern on TNT/MRN
Fast Facts
Last Spring, Greg Biffle was running second when it was clear he had a tire going down. He pitted under caution and restarted 10th with five laps remaining. Biffle picked up four positions in the closing laps for a sixth place finish.
Biffle’s sixth place finish in Pocono last season was his fifth top-10 in a streak of seven top-10 finishes in a row.
This weekend Biffle will pull his first double duty non-companion Busch and Cup race weekend, racing in both Pocono and Nashville. Biffle will be driving the No. 37 Brewco Motorsports entry in the Busch race.
Biffle was the first driver ever to complete a full season in both series when he ran every Nextel Cup and Busch Series race in 2004.
Biffle finished sixth last week in Dover and currently sits 18th in the point standings, 96 points out of the top 12.
This weekend Biffle will run the black and red Dish Network paint scheme.
Greg Biffle
Team: No. 16 Dish Network Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin
Chassis: RK-440 Last Raced Atlanta ’07, finished 41st
Biffle on racing at Pocono Raceway:
“Pocono can be a lot of fun if you have a good car but it can drag on when the cars get stretched out. I’d have to say it was more fun when we shifted but it can still be challenging because there are three completely different turns. Pocono is a little different than most of the tracks we go to just because you can get so much speed in the straight-a-ways but the corners are so flat that you’ve got to be able to slow down and control the car almost like a road course. Corner exit is very important, so that is something we’ll focus on early in practice.”
Crew Chief Greg Erwin on racing at Pocono Raceway:
“We’re taking a car that Greg raced earlier this year at Atlanta. These guys tested it at Charlotte and feel pretty confident about taking it to Pocono. Since we lost chassis 439 in the wreck at Charlotte, 440 is probably our best down force car right now. It has wind tunnel numbers very similar to the car Greg finished sixth with at Pocono last year. We’ll just go there with what we know about the car’s characteristics and work on it from there.”
