Biffle Sweeps California
FONTANA - Greg Biffle pulled off a California Speedway sweep by winning the NASCAR Busch Series Target House 300 on Saturday, taking the lead with three laps to go and holding off a pesky Casey Mears.
Biffle, a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series regular for Roush Racing, also won the spring Busch Series race at California Speedway. He won both races in the same Ford Taurus, one that almost didn’t make it out of Michigan in one piece.
“It made a great duel because we kept swapping positions back and forth,” said Biffle, who won his fifth Busch Series race of the season in the No. 60 Ford for Roush Racing. “I had to block him. You usually don’t have to do that on 2-mile race tracks. Because I needed the bottom, that’s just the way it was, I needed the bottom. It was fun racing him.”
Biffle and Mears changed leads four times in the last 10 laps of the race. Battling for position, the two drivers came within inches of colliding coming off Turn 4 with two laps to go in the race.
“When you’re trying to win a race, I think both guys are trying to get every inch,” said Mears, the Bakersfield driver of the No. 41 Chip Ganassi Racing Dodge. “I think the race was really clean. We never touched the whole time. That’s all you can ask for.”“The guys have just gotten the car handling great,” Biffle said. “I couldn’t complain. The track was really slick in the middle part of the race and toward the end. My car was handling especially well at the end. That’s the only way I can keep up with Casey.”
Final positions are listed below the fold.
1 #60 Greg Biffle Ford Charter Communications 190/10 150 Running
2 #41 Casey Mears Dodge Discount Tire/America’s Tire 175/5 150 Running
3 #21 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Reese’s 165/0 150 Running
4 #38 Kasey Kahne Dodge Great Clips/Shark Tale 165/5 150 Running
5 #66 Jamie McMurray Dodge Duraflame 155/0 150 Running
6 #8 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Kentucky Fried Chicken 155/5 150 Running
7 #18 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet Banquet Foods 151/5 150 Running
8 #87 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet Cellular One 142/0 150 Running
9 #5 Kyle Busch* Chevrolet Lowe’s/Shop-Vac 138/0 150 Running
10 #25 Mike McLaughlin Ford U.S. Marines 134/0 150 Running
11 #00 Jason Leffler Chevrolet NetZero HiSpeed 135/5 150 Running
12 #17 Matt Kenseth Ford Express Personnel Svcs/Bayer 127/0 150 Running
13 #23 Kenny Wallace Chevrolet Stacker 2 124/0 150 Running
14 #99 Michael Waltrip Chevrolet Aaron’s 121/0 150 Running
15 #37 David Green Pontiac Timber Wolf 118/0 150 Running
16 #20 Mike Bliss Chevrolet Rockwell Automation 115/0 149 Running
17 #27 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet Kleenex/Rite Aid 112/0 149 Running
18 #4 Mike Wallace Ford GEICO/Sportclips 109/0 149 Running
19 #74 Tony Raines Chevrolet Outdoor Channel 106/0 149 Running
20 #35 Wally Dallenbach Ford Mr. Clean AutoDry Carwash 103/0 149 Running
21 #111 Paul Menard* Chevrolet Menards/Pittsburgh Paints 100/0 149 Running
22 #22 Jason Keller Ford ppc Racing 97/0 149 Running
23 #46 Ashton Lewis Chevrolet Lewis Motorsports 94/0 149 Running
24 #59 Stacy Compton Ford Kingsford/Bush’s/Pace 85/0 148 Running
25 #47 Robert Pressley Ford Clorox/Wisk/Sparkletts 91/0 148 Running
26 #14 Casey Atwood Chevrolet Navy “Accelerate Your Life” 88/0 148 Running
27 #12 Tim Fedewa Chevrolet Jani-King 82/0 148 Running
28 #44 Justin Labonte Dodge U.S. Coast Guard 79/0 148 Running
29 #2 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet ACDelco 81/5 146 Running
30 #72 Kevin Lepage Chevrolet KB Home 73/0 146 Running
31 #10 Gus Wasson Chevrolet RaceGirl/acexenterprises.com 70/0 146 Running
32 #49 Derrike Cope Ford Advil Liqui-Gels 67/0 145 Running
33 #77 Bruce Bechtel Ford Harvest.org/Prestige Upholstery 64/0 138 Running
34 #96 Shane Hall Chevrolet Greased Lightning 61/0 137 Running
35 #135 Kenny Hendrick Chevrolet Gary Keller Racing 58/0 119 Off Track
36 #332 David Stremme Dodge TrimSpa 55/0 106 Out of Race
37 #1 Sterling Marlin Dodge FleetPride 52/0 75 Out of Race
38 #51 Stanton Barrett Dodge EPH Tools/Gibson Products 49/0 31 Out of Race
39 #271 Stan Boyd* Chevrolet MacDonald Motorsports 46/0 10 Out of Race
40 #107 Jimmy Kitchens Ford Quality Inn 43/0 7 Out of Race
41 #39 Tina Gordon Ford Yahoo!/Vassarette/Microtel 40/0 7 Out of Race
42 #88 Jeff Fuller Chevrolet NEMCO Motorsports 37/0 6 Out of Race
43 #24 Steve Grissom Chevrolet Quality Plus Services/Woodward 34/0 4 Out of Race
* Denotes Rookie
