Greg Biffle Wins Weird Race At Kansas
About the only thing missing from the NASCAR Nextel Cup LifeLock 400 at Kansas Speedway was the tornado at the beginning of “The Wizard of Oz.”
When Greg Biffle finally drove to victory when the race was called for darkness over six hours after it originally started, there were two red-flag periods because of rain, including one that lasted four hours, 13 minutes and 14 seconds after it appeared Tony Stewart had won this race for the second year in a row.
Even Biffle’s victory was momentarily in doubt as his Ford Fusion ran out of gas on the final lap and he could not keep up with the pace car. But NASCAR deemed him the victor due to the field being frozen when the final caution flag flew with four laps remaining.
Greg Biffle Fined For Skipping Interview
Tony Stewart was fined for something he said, while Greg Biffle was fined for not talking at all.
Greg Biffle was fined $5,000 and put on probation until Dec. 31 for skipping a press-box interview following his second-place finish in the Kroger 200 Busch Series race at O’Reilly Raceway Park last week.
Biffle said Wednesday that he talked to reporters on pit road after the race Saturday night but avoided the press box because of the huge crowd.
“I want to be clear that I was very excited about the second-place finish and was in no hurry to leave,” he said in a statement released by his team. “It just seemed unreasonable at the time to try to get to the press box as the grandstands were emptying in the opposite direction.”