Ford Performance NSCS Notes and Quotes
Sprint Showdown – Charlotte Motor Speedway
Friday, May 15, 2015
SEGMENT 1 POST-RACE WINNER’S INTERVIEW
GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 Ortho Ford Fusion – POST-RACE GARAGE INTERVIEW – “I’m really excited. We’ve worked really hard and we had good track position. We qualified well. It seems like we’re getting our cars a little bit better. We know we still have work to do, but when it got out in clean air it was pretty fast and we were able to hold off Clint and have a pretty good lead. I definitely didn’t want to see a caution flag. I wasn’t ready for a restart and mix it up again, but we’re pretty happy with the car.”
ANY STRATEGY GOING INTO A RACE LIKE THIS? “We knew guns were blazing. We had the thing in a halfway modified qualifying trim because we knew it was a short run, so we just ran as hard as we could the entire 20 laps.”
YOU SAID YOUR CAR IS GETTING BETTER, SO DOES THIS GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE FOR TOMORROW AND NEXT WEEKEND? “It gives us a bunch of confidence. We know we still have a lot of other cars to compete against, but it felt good to win half a race, so we’ll see what happens.”
HOW KEY WAS GETTING THE LEAD AT THE START OF THE RACE? “The start was the race and I knew that. That’s it. I just knew the start was the race. Whoever got out front was gonna win and I told Matt (Puccia) that. I had my tires warmed up and I pushed the gas down as easy as I could and I started spinning and he started spinning also. I thought, ‘Oh, he’s gonna get me,’ but I modulated the gas and started pushing it back down and I got some grip, and then he got a little sideways and came down and actually got into us. I haven’t looked at the side yet, but he was spinning also. Then my car took off and I got that jump and that was the end of it.”
