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CUP: Mixed Bag For Third-Place Biffle
Greg Biffle has finished third or better in five of the last six Kansas Speedway Sprint Cup races...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted October 04, 2009   Kansas City, KS
Greg Biffle thinks that a last minute pit stop choice may have cost him the win at the Sprint Cup Series Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)

Greg Biffle's third-place finish in the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway on Sunday was the very definition of looking at the glass as either half full or half empty.

Half full: Until today, the Roush Fenway Fords hadn’t threatened to win a race in weeks, but at Kansas, Biffle led a race-high 113 laps in scoring his best finish since the first Dover race way back in May.

It was also the fifth time in the last six races that Biffle has finished third or better at Kansas Speedway. And given that he qualified a woeful 31st, to come home third behind Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon was quite an accomplishment. On top of that, he moved up from ninth to eighth in points.

Half empty: Biffle should have won the race and knows it. He had a late-race lead of about nine seconds when the race’s final caution flew on Lap 238. The leaders all pitted under yellow, with Tony Stewart, Kasey Kahne and Jimmie Johnson all taking two tires on the stop, while Biffle emerged in fourth place, the first driver to have four fresh Goodyears.

But with only 25 laps or so to go when the green came out, Biffle was toast, with no hope of getting back to the front. Instead of scoring a dominating victory and returning Roush Fenway Racing to victory lane for the first time since Auto Club Speedway way back in February, Biffle finished third. An excellent finish, to be sure, just not the victory he’d hoped for.

Worse yet, it was Biffle’s decision to take four tires.

Half full, or half empty?


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