Greg Biffle – Watkins Glen Advance
Team: No. 16 Cheez-It Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Brian Pattie
Twitter: @Biffle16Team, @gbiffle
ADVANCE NOTES
Biffle at Watkins Glen
Biffle has 13 Sprint Cup Series starts at Watkins Glen, earning one top-five and four top-10 finishes.
Biffle won in the Truck Series at Watkins Glen in 2000. He started on the pole, led 36 laps and took home the checkered flag.
Cheez-It 355
In addition to being the primary sponsor on Biffle’s No. 16 Sprint Cup car and Bubba Wallace’s No. 6 XFINITY Mustang, Cheez-It is the title sponsor of the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen.
One Year Ago at Watkins Glen
Greg Biffle overcame a flat tire early on in the Cheez-It 355 to earn a 14th-place finish. Not only did Biffle have a flat tire, but the flat tire took out the front brake duct of the No. 16 Cheez-It Ford. Multiple pit stops and fuel strategy put Biffle in the top 10 towards the end of the race, but missing the ‘bus stop’ cost him a few positions in the closing laps.
Meet Greg
Greg will be at Top’s Market (504 ½ St. Franklin Street, Watkins Glen, NY) on Friday, August 5th at 6:00 PM signing autographs on behalf of Cheez-It.
Biffle on Watkins Glen:
“Watkins Glen is one of my favorite places to go. I’ve got a pole and a win there in the Trucks and an outside front row starting position in the Cup car. It’s a fun place, very challenging, lots of elevation changes and the tricky Esses.
“It’s some of the most technical driving that we do after turn one, that shift to third as we’re going downhill into the bottom of a right hand turn, then up and shift through fourth through the middle of the Esses then a really high speed turn onto the top straightaway. It’s a very intimidating part of the race track, but there’s a lot of speed there, a lot of lap time. It’s a very fast road course.”
