Many race fans have ignored the fact that Greg Biffle is in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Chase. Don’t look now but Biffle is currently sixth in the overall series point’s standings and down a deficit of 41 points to series points leader Matt Kenseth.
Kansas marks the start of the road for Biffle if he plans on competing for this 2013 NSCS Championship. The only win of 2013 for “The Biff” came back in Michigan and that win has propelled him to being able to contend for this years title. Biffle is hoping for those few wins on these intermediate tracks and predominantly could give him an advantage in the battle for the championship.
“We’ve got a lot of speed in our cars and 1.5-mile tracks are our favorite type of tracks,” said Biffle, who has captured seven of his 19 career checkered flags in the series at 1.5-mile tracks. “I like Kansas and have a couple of wins there. We’ve been running well and we have a strong opportunity to get our first win of the Chase.”
Chicagoland wasn’t the best race for the No. 16 team as Biffle brought home a 16th place finish. A lot of fans believed that was the way Biffle’s chase would be, outside the top fifteen. Well if you were one of those fans then you have been proved wrong. Biffle went out to New Hampshire and posted a solid ninth place finish and then surprised many fans after a third place performance in Dover International Speedway.
Biffle will have to overcome a bad qualifying run on Friday. Biffle took to the track as the 29th qualifier and couldn’t find the speed, forcing him to start 26th for the Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday.
Biffle has had success at Kansas though with 2-career wins coming in 2007 and 2010.
Biffle is hoping consistency will also win him this championship, that’s worked out pretty well considering he’s the only competitor to be running at the end of all the season’s races. So far through this chase consistency is winning nothing, it’s winning. Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson are the two that are winning, but this weekend in Kansas the Roush Fenway Racing Ford of Biffle is hoping to change that and make this a 4-man race between Kenseth, Johnson, Kyle Busch and Biffle.
“We’ve got to get a win this weekend to get back in the Chase,” Biffle said.
