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Greg Biffle won this race in 2007. But Biffle wasn’t in the Chase last year. Three of the last four Kansas Speedway Sprint Cup race winners were non-Chase contenders in fact.
The Biff is in the Chase this time and coming off a sweep of the first two rounds of the 2008 Chase to the Cup. He has the number one Loop Data Driver Rating for Kansas Speedway - 118.5 - and the second best combined Driver Rating - 106.5 - when averaging in the season-to-date stats. His average position in the three Loop Data races is 6.4 and he has run more laps in the top 15 - 702 for 94.4 percent - than anyone else. And only one driver has won more races than Biffle - 13 - on NASCAR’s intermediate tracks in the last five years. Greg Biffle looks pretty studdly this week.
And so does the only driver with more intermediate track wins than the Biff. That would be Jimmy Johnson with 23. Johnson has something else that Biffle wants. Greg is going for three straight Sprint Cup wins. The last driver to pull that off is Johnson, who won four in a row at the end of the 2007 Chase. Jimmy has the second best Kansas Driver Rating - 115.6 - but the top combined DR at 110.5. Johnson has one top five and four top tens, but is winless at Kansas.
Anybody but Johnson
Carl Edwards leads the Sprint Cup standings. His Driver Ratings for Kansas are a ninth best 90.2 for the Speedway and a combined fourth - 98.5 - when factoring in 2008 season-to-date. Carl is part of the surging Roush-Fenway organization. Along with Biffle and Matt Kenseth, Edwards heads a three pronged assault on the Cup by the Cat in the Hat. The trio took the top three spots at Dover International Speedway in race two.
Kenseth’s performance was the biggest surprise, based upon what had been happening with that team. The no. 17 had the second best Dover Loop stats, but it was hard to look his way before the race. A strong second at the Monster Mile makes this week’s outlook more positive. Matt’s DR is eighth best for Kansas and he has the second most top ten finishes on intermediates the last five years.
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