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Greg Bifle has some harsh words about the sate of his #16 race team
Christian Post Report – Greg Biffle is a driver used to running for championships. He has won a championship in the Craftsman Truck series and the Xfinity series. He has finished the top 10 in Sprint Cup series points 10 times in his career. However, for much of the 2014 season and early on in the 2015 season, Biffle’s #16 Roush Fenway Racing team has struggled. Biffle has not won a sprint Cup series race since 2013 and has not won multiple races since 2012. When the team unloaded at the Auto Club Speedway this weekend for race there, Biffle had some strong words.
“This is unacceptable, We’re dying a slow death. We need to start showing up for the weekend closer to where we need to be,” Biffle told NBC’s NASCAR Talk Friday. From those comments alone it appears that Biffle is frustrated with the current state of his race team.
“You want to unload off the truck and be in the top 10 or top 15. Granted, we were much better yesterday when we were (17th) and 14th in the final practice on speed, so we got it better,” he clarified before Sunday’s race. “You just feel crushed when you’ve worked so hard and everybody’s put so much effort into it – and then we come here and come off the truck with that kind of speed. That really crushed us. That was a blow to us that we ended up in that position off the truck.”
Roush Fenway Racing has lost a lot of talent the past few years. Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards specifically and going further back, Kurt Busch and Mark Martin. Biffle resigned with the team this past off season and has driven from Roush in all three of NASCAR’s top national divisions.
Now it appears this is a team struggling to get a handle on the new rules package, even though they’re running the same engines as the winner of Sunday’s race, Brad Keselowski.
Source : Christian Post