64 Facts About Greg Biffle

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Greg Biffle last competed part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No 44 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for NY Racing Team and full-time in the Superstar Racing Experience, driving the No 69 car.

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Greg Biffle reprised this progression in the NASCAR Busch Series, winning the 2001 Rookie of the Year, immediately followed by winning the 2002 championship.

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Greg Biffle, who began his NASCAR career in 1995, is the first of only three drivers that have won a championship in both the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck Series, and the sixth of only thirty-six drivers to win a race in each of NASCAR's three national series.

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Greg Biffle returned to NASCAR in 2019 when he ran the 2019 SpeedyCash.

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Greg Biffle began his racing career driving on short tracks around the Pacific Northwest.

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Greg Biffle dominated the series championship that winter, leading former ESPN announcer and NASCAR champion, Benny Parsons, to recommend the driver to Jack Roush.

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Greg Biffle entered the first two races of the 1996 Winston West Series, finishing 30th at Tucson and 4th at Altamont.

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In 1997, Greg Biffle competed in the now-defunct NASCAR Northwest Series and won the Most Popular Driver Award.

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Greg Biffle 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 2022.

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Greg Biffle finished second in the final standings, just eight points behind champion Jack Sprague.

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In 2000, Greg Biffle won the Truck Series title with another five-win season, beating his Roush teammate Kurt Busch by 230 points.

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Greg Biffle made a Truck Series start in 2004 for another long-time Ford team, Circle Bar Racing, at Homestead.

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On March 28,2019, Greg Biffle announced he would be testing with Kyle Busch Motorsports the next day at Texas Motor Speedway in the No 51 truck.

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Greg Biffle was eventually tabbed to drive the truck for the SpeedyCash.

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Greg Biffle started sixth and won in his series return, leading 18 laps and holding off Matt Crafton while winning $50,000 in a promotion with Gander Outdoors; it was his first Truck victory since 2001.

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Greg Biffle joined the Busch Series full-time in 2001 and won the Rookie of the Year Award with five wins a fourth-place finish in the final standings.

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Greg Biffle ran only part-time in Busch competition in 2003 as Roush moved him up to a full-time ride in the Winston Cup Series for that season, but he returned to contend for the Busch Series championship again in 2004.

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Greg Biffle placed third in the standings behind Martin Truex Jr.

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From 2005 to 2009, Greg Biffle raced part-time for Roush Fenway Racing in the Busch every year.

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Greg Biffle won twice in 2009, at Las Vegas and Phoenix, after going winless the previous two seasons.

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Greg Biffle returned to the Nationwide Series in 2010, driving the No 27 Ford for Baker Curb Racing.

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Greg Biffle began his Cup Series career in the 2002 season.

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Greg Biffle attempted to qualify in a Roush Ford for the 2002 Daytona 500 but failed to make the race.

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Greg Biffle would make his first Cup debut nine races later at California, a race in which he finished 13th.

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Greg Biffle earned his first win in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona that season and finished second to Jamie McMurray for Raybestos Rookie of the Year.

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Greg Biffle made an immediate impact in his sophomore season in 2004, earning the pole in the Daytona 500.

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However, Greg Biffle was forced to start at the rear due to an engine change.

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Greg Biffle won six races, 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 tied with his teammate Carl Edwards in points but won the tie-breaker based on race wins.

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Greg Biffle regressed in 2006, missing the Chase for the Cup despite winning twice at Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway.

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Greg Biffle finished 13th in the standings, third-best of the drivers not to qualify for the Chase.

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Greg Biffle missed the Chase the following year, in a season marred by the No 16 team's new primary sponsor Ameriquest Mortgage suffering financial difficulty and having to sell off a number of its race sponsorships.

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Greg Biffle won only one race in 2007, at Kansas Speedway.

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In 2007, Greg Biffle finished 14th in the standings, second-best of the non-Chase drivers as the Chase expanded to a 12-driver format that year.

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Greg Biffle Won At Kansas During The Chase In 2007.

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In June 2008, Greg Biffle signed a year-long contract extension with Roush Fenway Racing.

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In 2011, Greg Biffle's season improved, thanks in part to the implementation of Ford's new FR9 engine.

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However, crew chief Greg Biffle Erwin was replaced after Kentucky by Matt Puccia.

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Greg Biffle missed the Chase in 2011 for the first time since 2007.

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At the 2012 Daytona 500, Greg Biffle found himself second coming to the white flag for the third time in two years and again finished third.

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Greg Biffle won at Michigan holding off Brad Keselowski after Jimmie Johnson blew an engine.

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Greg 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.

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At the 2014 Coca-Cola 600, Greg Biffle surpassed Clint Bowyer's record for most consecutive races without failing to finish with 84, tying Herman Beam's record, dating back to the 2011 Ford 400.

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Greg Biffle began the pre-season with an announcement that he would stay at Roush Fenway Racing to help the team with a new sponsor Ortho.

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Greg Biffle began 2015 with a 10th-place finish in the Daytona 500.

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Greg Biffle struggled mightily before picking up a second-place finish in the 2015 Coca-Cola 600, after starting fourth.

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Greg Biffle went on to pick up a fifth-place finish at Pocono in the 2015 Windows 10 400 and a fourth-place at New Hampshire in the 2015 Sylvania 300, finishing twentieth in points.

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Greg Biffle earned his first pole position in four seasons during qualifying for the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona and went on to finish eighth in the race.

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Greg Biffle did not sign on with a ride for the 2017 season.

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Greg Biffle returned to the series in 2022, driving the No 44 for NY Racing Team at the Daytona 500 and the remainder of the teams races as well.

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Greg Biffle finished seventh and second in the weekend's two races, though he did not receive points in the standings as he drove the No 57 truck in place of Bill Hynes, who received the points earned by Biffle under series rules.

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Greg Biffle returned to SST for the 2019 season, sharing a Continental AG-sponsored truck with Sheldon Creed and Ryan Beat.

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Greg Biffle ran in second for much of the first race before falling to fourth after an erratic landing; the second race saw a late spin drop him to eighth.

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Greg Biffle started his season off at the inaugural SRX race at Stafford Motor Speedway, winning the first heat but getting caught up in a wreck in the second heat.

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In 2003, Greg Biffle competed in the International Race of Champions.

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Greg Biffle recorded a best finish of third at Talladega and finished seventh in points.

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In 2018, Greg Biffle started the Sand Outlaw Series for racing UTVs The series has since grown into a popular multi-class drag racing championship featuring hill climbs and flat track events.

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Greg Biffle competes out of his own UTV shop, Pace Offroad.

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Greg Biffle is of German and English descent as his ancestor, Johannes Buffel came from Contwig in Western Germany and settled in North Carolina.

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Greg Biffle's second child, Ryder Jack, was born on September 9,2020.

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Greg Biffle is a fan of fishing and enjoys deep sea fishing in Mexico, where he keeps a factory-sponsored Luhrs fishing boat.

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Greg Biffle formerly owned a pub in his hometown of Vancouver called "Biffle's Pub and Grill" located at 11500 NE 76th St In 2010 Biffle announced that he had become part-owner of Willamette Speedway in Lebanon, Oregon along with Sunset Speedway in Banks, Oregon.

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Greg Biffle is a private pilot and owns a Cessna 210, along with a Dassault Falcon 50 with the tail number N116GB, a Dassault Falcon 10 with the tail number N316GB, and a Bell 206 with tail number N216GB.

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Greg Biffle owns a 2007 Ford GT and a 2007 Shelby Mustang GT500.

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On February 17,2017, Greg Biffle announced that instead of racing full-time in 2017, he would join NBC Sports' NASCAR America as an analyst beginning March 1,2017.