#60-Greg Biffle’s day with his NASCAR Busch Series team started with a wreck and ended with a pole. During Friday morning’s practice session at Bristol Motor Speedway, Biffle got into a wreck with Jay Sauter, which damaged both cars. By the afternoon, Biffle’s Roush Racing team had repaired the nose of his #60 Ford and his qualifying lap at 127.132 mph was good enough to take the pole for Saturday’s Sharpie Professional 250 (1:00pm/et, Fox). The pole is the 10th of Biffle’s career and first at Bristol. It comes on the heels of Biffle’s win last weekend at Darlington. Biffle said he felt bad for Sauter and for his team, which spent most of the rest of the practice session working on his car. “It was one of those deals where Jay Sauter was coming up off the corner and he just let off the throttle,” he said. “At Bristol when your mirror is full of a car, you can’t let up off the gas.” Biffle and second-fastest qualifier #8-Martin Truex Jr. (126.679 mph) eclipsed the previous track qualifying record (126.495 mph), set by David Green in March 2003. “It was a great run for us,” Truex Jr. said. “I think we’ve been close (to a win) already, but it seems like at the end of races circumstances don’t ever seem to go our way. But all we can do is run as best we can every week.” #37-David Green was third fastest, #25-Bobby Hamilton Jr. fourth and series points leader #21-Kevin Harvick completed the top five.(ThatsRacin.com), missing the race were #16-Justin Ashburn, #53-Butch Jarvis and #0-Mike Potter.
For race lineups see ThatsRacin.com, BGNRacing.com or NASCAR.com.(3-26-2004)
