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Cautions Betray Biffle, Benefit Earnhardt Jr.

Sep 23, 2007 – 11:20 PM
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Greg Biffle's 2nd place finish in the Dodge Dealers 400 was his best performance of the season, but it wasn't quite enough to catch Carl Edwards.
"If I could've got to his bumper, it might have been a challenge for him. I know he's in the Chase and he had a little cushion today, and I needed a win pretty bad, but we were going to race him clean. But I wish I had a chance at him."
The cautions didn't help:
"They hurt us. I don't know ... I don't know if I was going to catch Carl or not."
Biffle's fellow non-Chaser Dale Earnhardt Jr., on the other hand, benefited greatly from the late-race cautions. He was able to get back on the lead lap, avoid the "big one" and pull off a 3rd place finish, his seventh of the season.
"I think we deserved to get a top-three, even though we probably should have finished eighth or so."
Agreed. The #8 team has had some misfortune they didn't deserve this season--they are certainly deserving of a little good fortune.

Hey ... why did they take away the million dollar award for the first driver to finish outside the Chase? I'm sure NASCAR wouldn't have that hard a time finding a sponsor to turn that unlucky spot into Lucky 13th.
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