Top 20 Countdown: No. 13 Greg Biffle
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2009 statistics
Finish | Poles | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
7 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16 |
The countdown
No. 20: Martin Truex Jr. | Career stats
No. 19: Brian Vickers | Career stats
No. 18: Kasey Kahne | Career stats
No. 17: Clint Bowyer | Career stats
No. 16: David Reutimann | Career stats
No. 15: Kevin Harvick | Career stats
No. 14: Ryan Newman | Career stats
No. 13: Greg Biffle | Career stats
No. 12: Revealed Jan. 21
Editor's note: Yahoo! Sports is counting down the top 20 drivers of the 2010 season. The order was determined by a survey, which asked five NASCAR journalists – Jay Busbee and Jay Hart (Yahoo! Sports); Jenna Fryer (Associated Press); Dustin Long (Landmark Newspapers); and Nate Ryan (USA Today) – to predict the final standings for the 2010 season. The countdown will conclude on Feb. 5 with the unveiling of the No. 1 driver.
2009 finish: 7th
Our 2010 predictions:
• Jay Busbee: 11th
• Jay Hart: 13th
• Jenna Fryer: 12th
• Dustin Long: 12th
• Nate Ryan: Not ranked in top 20
Outlook for 2010: Greg Biffle is an enigma. He always seems to run best among the second-tier drivers but is never quite able to rise up to the premier level where drivers like Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart reside. Last year marked another year of close-but-no-cigar for Biffle; he placed in the top five on 10 occasions, but never once made it to victory lane.
Biffle was among the Roush Fenway crowd that never really seemed to get going in 2009. And while he didn't have the problems of teammates Carl Edwards (who limped into the Chase) and Matt Kenseth (who drove himself out of it), Biffle nonetheless couldn't get any kind of consistency going all year. He posted back-to-back top 10s just five times all season and only twice in the final 27 races of the season.
Biffle enters 2010 with a stable team environment and as good of a chance at maintaining his Chase standing as he's ever had. The problem for him is standing still isn't nearly good enough in NASCAR these days, not with the talent lurking on both sides of the Chase cut line. Biffle needs to figure how to add some victories to his resume, and soon, or he's going to be on the outside looking in when the 2010 Chase rolls around.
What you need to know: For the first time in his seven-year Cup career, Biffle went winless. But he did perform well in the Nationwide Series, winning twice in 14 races. It was in the Nationwide race in California where Biffle made perhaps his biggest headline of the year when he put Joey Logano into the wall.
