Biffle tries to maintain momentum during Chase

Associated Press

September 28, 2008

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Greg Biffle is a firm believer in momentum. So the winner of two straight races is feeling pretty good heading into today's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway.

"It's right in our wheelhouse," Biffle said. "We won here last year, we're good on mile-and-a-half tracks, and we had a great Charlotte test [earlier this week]. Man, I feel good about it."

The Roush Fenway Racing driver, hoping to add a Cup title to the championships he won earlier in his career in the second-tier Nationwide - then Busch - series and the third-tier truck series, is the first driver to win the first two races of the 10-race Chase for the Cup since NASCAR introduced the format in 2004.

"Anything that you do that nobody else has done is kind of cool," Biffle said.

But Biffle is more concerned with keeping his momentum than basking in his historic feat.

"I don't want to say I want to win more, but I'm more focused on how we can keep it going more than reflect back on what we've been able to do so far," he said. "I think maybe at the end of the season I could look back easier, and say, 'That was pretty neat to win the first two Chase races.'"

To get that third win, Biffle will have to make up some ground after qualifying 18th for today's Camping World RV 400. And he's not alone.

Ten of the 12 Chase drivers qualified outside the top 10, with six of them - including points leader Carl Edwards - starting in the back half of the 43-car field.

Jimmie Johnson, the Cup champion the past two years, had no such problem.

He qualified second to Juan Pablo Montoya on Friday, but was quickly elevated to the pole when Montoya's fast lap was disallowed because of a technical violation.

That gave Johnson, who goes into the race tied with Biffle for second 10 points behind Edwards, the first pick for pit position in the race, a definite edge.

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