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CUP: Biffle Ready To End Winless Skid In 2010
Grep Biffle plans to use the offseason to work on improving performance...
Jared Turner  | http://www.scenedaily.com  |  Posted December 11, 2009   Charlotte, NC
Roush Fenway Racing's Greg Biffle finished seventh in the final 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

Being the top points finisher for Ford and Roush Fenway Racing in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season wasn’t enough to appease Greg Biffle.

While Biffle by no means had the kind of campaign observers would consider bad, it certainly didn’t live up to the expectations of the driver and his Greg Erwin-led team.

The most notable statistic from Biffle’s 2009 campaign is the one that’s missing – a win.

For the first time in seven full Cup seasons, the Vancouver, Wash., native was shut out of victory lane. So when Biffle looks back on this past season, he’ll remember his dearth of wins more than finishing best in class among the Ford and Roush Fenway camps.

“I’m going to say we had an average year,” says Biffle, who finished seventh in the series standings. “We really, really had an average year, a ‘C.’ We came close to winning several times. That’s one positive thing about our season. We came very close at Kansas, very close at California, a few others, Texas. So that’s good that we were running competitive enough to get into victory lane.

“The unfortunate part is we weren’t competitive enough all season. We were spotty on being good enough to win, and we’ve got to be better than that. We know that.”

Biffle actually came the closest to winning at Michigan, where he was leading the June race before running out of gas on the final lap and finishing fifth. A few such close calls only added to the disappointment of a season in which his No. 16 Ford didn’t carry enough speed to contend for wins on most weekends.

In that way, Biffle’s struggles were merely a microcosm of the entire Roush Fenway organization, which won just three Cup races a year after winning 11 times.

“We’re just missing something as a company, and I know that everything that can be done will be done in the offseason to figure out what it is,” says Biffle, a winner of 14 Cup races from 2003 to 2008. “We ended up seventh in the points, which is obviously not where we hoped we would be. We’ll work hard over the winter and come back and try it again next season.”

Four spots behind Biffle in the final standings was teammate Carl Edwards, the only other Roush Fenway driver to qualify for NASCAR’s Chase For The Sprint Cup.


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