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Greg Biffle won the 'Burnout Contest' before the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe's Motor Speedway. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Image Photo) ยป More Photos

Greg Biffle won the inaugural Pennzoil Platinum Victory Challenge – a/k/a “the burnout contest” — the opening event in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXIV festivities.

Biffle defeated four other drivers – Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick – to claim honors in the event, which featured drivers doing burnouts and 360-degree spins known as “donuts.”

“It was awesome and I gave them a little slide job over here around the Legends track, so the fans loved it,” said Biffle. “They want to see the smoke and the excitement and I think they saw that.”

Biffle said he was going to donate the $10,000 first-place money to his Greg Biffle Foundation. “We support a lot of animal shelters,” said Biffle. “We’re getting ready to build a shelter in South Iredell (N.C.) County right now, in the Mooresville area, so Friends of the Animal Board, we’ve been working on it for about a year-and-a-half. We’re excited and just getting ready to launch that thing and get it going.”

What about doing this again next year? Biffle has some ideas. “I want to bring one of my cars because I think the fans would get really juiced up about us bringing our stuff out here and doing it,” he said. “That would be pretty cool for them to see that. I’m talking about one of my personal cars. If Goodyear would bring us some tires, I would bring my Shelby GT500 car. It’s got a lot of power and it would look cool out there laying down some rubber and some smoke.”

Tom Jensen is the Senior NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com, the former Executive Editor of NASCAR Scene and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. He is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of SPEED,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows to discuss NASCAR racing. Jensen is the President of the National Motorsports Press Association. The Answer Man is back at SPEEDtv.com. Tom Jensen answers your questions during every race week and looks forward to hearing from you - please e-mail it to

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SPEED will televise the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXIV and the NASCAR Sprint Showdown live on May 17, as well as provide more than 90 hours of support programming prior to the event. Stay tuned to SPEEDtv.com for frequent updates on the history of the event and all the details about this year’s action.
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