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Biffle was born in Camas, Washington, where he grew up, and began his racing career driving on short tracks around the Pacific Northwest. He first gained attention as a driver when he raced in the nationally televised Winter Heat Series in the winter of 1995–1996. Biffle dominated the series championship that winter, leading former ESPN announcer and NASCAR champion, Benny Parsons, to recommend the driver to Jack Roush. This is the only team Biffle has ever drove for though 2016. At the end of 2016 Biffle announced he was leaving Roush Fenway racing to look for another ride. Roush Racing hired Biffle to a drive full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series in 1998. Despite not winning a race that season, Biffle's four pole positions are the most by a Truck Series rookie to date and they helped him earn an 8th-place finish in the final standings and the Rookie of the Year Award. He followed it up with a stellar 1999 season in which

he recorded nine wins, a single-season Truck Series record that still stands as of 2009. He finished second in the final standings, just eight points behind champion Jack Sprague. In 2000, Biffle won the Truck Series title with another five-win season, beating his Roush teammate Kurt Busch by 230 points. It was Biffle's first championship in one of NASCAR's three major series. It was announced that Biffle would move up to the Xfinity Series for 2001; however, he ran four more Truck races for Roush that season and won at Phoenix. Biffle joined the Xfinity Series full-time in 2001

and won the Rookie of the Year Award with five wins a fourth-place finish in the final standings. The following season, he won another four races and earned 20 top-five finishes out of 34 races en route to his first Xfinity Series title and the second NASCAR national championship of his career. Biffle began his Cup Series career in the 2002 season. He attempted to qualify in a Roush Ford for the 2002 Daytona 500 but failed to make the race. He would make his first Cup debut nine races later at California, a race in which he finished 13th; his best finish of his seven starts. Biffle began competing full-time in NASCAR's top division in 2003, with a sponsorship from W.W. Grainger, who had previously sponsored him in the Xfinity and Truck Series. He earned his first win in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona that season and finished second to Jamie McMurray (who would later join him as a teammate at Roush) for

Raybestos Rookie of the Year. Biffle placed 20th in the final points standings. Biffle made an immediate impact in his sophomore season in 2004, earning the pole in the Daytona 500. However, Biffle was forced to start at the rear due to an engine change. Despite missing NASCAR's first-ever Chase for the Cup, Biffle won twice that season, at Michigan and Homestead en route to a 17th-place finish in the final points standings. 2005 was Biffle's breakout season. He won six races (at California Speedway, Texas, Darlington, Dover and Michigan along with the season finale at Homestead), the most of any driver that year, and qualified for the Chase for the first time in his career, bringing home a second-place finish in the standings, 35

points behind champion Tony Stewart. Biffle regressed in 2006, missing the Chase for the Cup despite winning twice. He finished 13th in the standings. Biffle won only one race in 2007, at Kansas Speedway. In June 2008, Biffle signed a year-year contract extension with Roush Fenway Racing. Despite going win-less during the 26-race regular season, Biffle made for the Chase for the Sprint Cup that year and won the first two Chase races, at New Hampshire and Dover. n doing so, he became the first driver to win the first two Chase races in a season. Biffle qualified for the Chase for the second year in a row in 2009 but, for the first time since 2002 (when he ran a limited schedule), failed to record a win. In 2010 Biffle qualified for the third year in a row for the Chase despite spotty performance in the regular season. He won at Pocono and Kansas. For 2011, Biffle's season improved, thanks in part to the implementation of Ford's new FR9 engine. However, crew

chief Greg Erwin was replaced after Kentucky by Matt Puccia. The addition of Puccia helped Biffle's performance late in the season, despite the team missing the Chase and finishing 16th in points. Biffle missed the Chase in 2011 for the first time since 2007. In 2012 Biffle and Puccia remained at RFR, and gained the points lead after Las Vegas after three consecutive third-place finishes. At the 2012 Daytona 500, Biffle found himself second coming to the white flag for the third time in two years and again finished third. Eerily, the third place at Vegas came in Biffle's 333rd Cup start. Biffle's first win of the 2012 season came at Texas Motor Speedway in the Samsung Mobile 500 after passing Jimmie Johnson with 30 laps left in the race. Biffle won at Michigan holding off Brad Keselowski after Jimmie Johnson blew an engine.

Biffle started off 2013 by being in the same position for the third time in four years; in second place coming to the white flag in the 2013 Daytona 500 but this time ended up sixth. In the 2013 Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan, Biffle won his fourth race at the track and the 1,000th victory for Ford. Biffle only posted three top 5 finishes in 2014 with a best of second at Talladega. SO close but not not able to grab the checkered flags at the restrictor plate tracks. 2015 was a duplicate of 2014 with Biffle posting three top 5 finishes and a best of second (in Coke 600). During this down turn in results; Roush Fenway racing had been on a

down swing and was badly lacking performance compared to the top teams of Joe Gibbs, Rick Hendrick and Roger Penske. For the previous two season Biffle's team mates had performed poorly also. Only Carl Edwards was able to get a win, while Stenhouse post only one top 5. Edwards moved on from Roush Fenway to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2015 leaving Biffle as the lead driver. Bayne replaced Edwards and the trio was only able to manage four top 5 finishes. 2016 saw even more pitiful results and led Biffle to announce mid-season that like his team mates Kenseth and Edwards before him; would be leaving Roush at the end of the season. The same trio of drivers wheeled cars for Roush and only posted seven top 5 finishes; Five of those being fifth. The best was a second place by Stenhouse at Bristol. When 2017 came around Biffle found

himself without a ride; and the picture above is from Homestead; the last race of 2016 - and possibly Biffle's last race. Biffle was without a ride in 2018 and 2019. He didn't sit behind the wheel until Kyle Busch called and talked him into a one-off race to drive his Kyle Busch Motorsports vehicle in the Truck Series. The duo wanted a Top 5 finish; but admitted that if things went well, it was possible Biffle might pull out a win. The truck was 'off' for the first part of the race; but the pit crew kept making adjustments every time there was a yellow and they got a chance to get their hands on it. As the night progressed, Biffle kept moving up the standings. At the end of the second stage, he had moved up into sixth place. Biffle moved into the lead just after lap 100 and held it for five laps. Two more yellows before the end of the race allowed the team a couple more chances to tinker on the truck more. Biffle

got into the lead on lap 155 and held it to the checkers flew on lap 167. He beat Matt Crafton by less than one second. Biffle did not race any more in 2019 and did race one in 2020. He drove the #24 Maury Gallagher owned truck with the Ricky Hendrick throw-back paint scheme. I guess you can't keep a good man down, as Biffle was back behind the wheel of a Cup car in 2022. He drove five races for owner Johnathan Cohen with sponsorship from various colleges. His best run he finished 20th, and he fell out of three races with mechanical failure. He was sponsored by Stillman College. Will Biffle be back in 2023?? We'll see. Some info from Wikipedia.

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GREGORY JACK "GREG" BIFFLE - 12/23/1969