Greg Biffle

Gregory Jack Biffle (born December 23, 1969), in Vancouver,  Washington, United States) is an American speed motorsport driver who competes professionally in stock cars. Since 2002 he has raced in the NASCAR Cup Series, where he has achieved 19 victories and 92 top-5s as of November 2016. His best championship results were second in 2005, third in 2008, fifth in 2012 and sixth in 2010. Biffle has raced since 2003 with a  Ford number 16 of the Roush Fenway Racing team, where he was sponsored by 3M.

Sports career
Biffle grew up in the town of Beds, Washington. After competing in ovals in the northwest of the country, the driver won the NASCAR Winter Heat Series in the 1995-96 season. In 1996 I have played two dates in the NASCAR West Series, finishing fourth in one of them. At the end of the year, I ran two NASCAR Busch Series events. Biffle competed in the NASCAR Northwest Series in 1997. He began his racing career driving on short tracks around the Pacific Northwest. He first gained attention as a driver when he raced in the nationally televised Winter Heat Series in the winter of 1995–1996. Biffle dominated the series championship that winter, leading former ESPN announcer and NASCAR champion, Benny Parsons, to recommend the driver to Jack Roush.

Roush hired Biffle to contest the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with a Ford truck in 1998. He had eight top-fives and four pole positions, but no victories, and was eighth in the championship in addition to winning Rookie of the Year. Continuing at Roush, the driver won nine races and collected 14 top-fives and four pole positions in 25 dates, finishing second with 3,739 points, just eight fewer than champion Jack Sprague. Biffle had five wins, 18 top-fives and four pole positions in the 2000 season, so he beat his teammate Kurt Busch and claimed the championship. 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.

The driver returned to the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001, this time as a Roush starter. He had five wins and 16 top-fives, which earned him fourth place in the championship and Rookie of the Year. He also ran four NASCAR Truck Series dates, winning two of them. Biffle was crowned NASCAR Busch Series champion in 2002 with four wins, 20 top-fives and five pole positions in 34 races. On the other hand, he entered some NASCAR Cup Series events for the Roush (Ford), Petree (Chevrolet) and Petty (Dodge) teams, obtaining a 13th in his debut in Fontana for best finish. Despite going winless during the 26-race regular season, Biffle made for the Chase for the Sprint Cup that year and won the first two Chase races, at New Hampshire and Dover. In doing so, he became the first driver to win the first two Chase races in a season.

In 2003, at the age of 32, Biffle began competing in the NASCAR Cup as a Roush team starter with the No. 16 Ford. He won the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona and achieved three top-fives and six top-10s, finishing 20th as the second best rookie behind Jamie McMurray. Biffle took pole position at the Daytona 500, won two races and amassed eight top-10s, finishing the year in 17th place.

For the first time, Biffle qualified for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup in 2005. His six victories, 15 top-fives and 21 top-10s earned him finishing second in the championship, 35 points behind Tony Stewart. He failed to reach the postseason in 2006, where he obtained two runs, 8 top-5 and 15 top-10, nor in 2007, where he won once and achieved 5 top-5 and 11 top 10. The driver was respectively 13th and 14th in the final qualifier.

Biffle entered the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup in 2008. With two wins, 12 top-fives and 17 top-10s, he finished third in the championship behind Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards. He again qualified for the postseason in 2009 and posted a total of ten top-fives and 16 top-10s, but did not win any of the 36 races, and finished the year in seventh position. In 2010, the driver had two victories, nine top-5s and 19 top-10s, which earned him sixth place in the final classifier. The Washingtonian was far from qualifying for the Chase for the Cup in 2011. He had his worst year since 2004, finishing 16th without victories and with just three top-fives and ten top-10s.

In 2012, Biffle entered his 10th consecutive season as Roush's starting driver in the NASCAR Cup Series. He accumulated two victories, 12 top-5s and 21 top-10s, for which he was fifth in the championship. The driver scored one win, four top-fives and 13 top-10s in 2013, which was enough to enter the Chase for the Cup and finish ninth.

In 2014, he had 3 top-5s and 11 top-10s, reaching the first round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, and finishing 14th in the overall table. In 2015 he did not qualify for the Chase for the Cup, he accumulated 3 top-fives to finish 20th in the championship. The following year, he achieved 1 top-5 and 3 top-10s to finish 23rd in the drivers table.

Since he began competing regularly in the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Biffle has frequently participated in NASCAR Busch Series races. He played almost all of the dates from 2004 to 2007. His best year was 2004, when he achieved five wins, 15 top-5s and 21 top-10s, which earned him the final third place. The Washingtonian competed between 10 and 15 of 35 races in 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2010. The category stopped awarding points to NASCAR Cup Series holders in 2011, and Biffle stopped competing there.

Other activities
Biffle and his wife Nicole created the Greg Biffle Foundation in 2005, dedicated to promoting animal welfare.

The pilot starred in an episode of the sitcom ' in the role of a NASCAR driver who himself participates in lawnmower races, and appeared briefly in the comedy film about the NASCAR '.