Greg Biffle not content with progress Roush has made in 2016
There’s no denying Roush Fenway Racing’s three teams have performed better in 2016. Though, as Greg Biffle notes, the team isn’t the force that it once was in the Cup Series.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is 18th in the standings while Trevor Bayne is 19th. Biffle is currently 23rd. Yeah, like we said, not a force. But consider last year when Biffle finished 20th, Stenhouse was 25th and Bayne was 29th. Progress can’t come all at once.
“Compared to last year it is a huge improvement,” Biffle said Friday. “It is reason to celebrate and go on vacation. But where we are at compared to our competition is not so much reason to celebrate yet because we are running between 10th and 15th and we want to be better than that.
“All of our cars really have. The 6 and 17 and 16 have all competitively on the track if you take an average of the race we are running in 10th-15th spot. We want to be better than that. We have to get to where we can run in the top-10. That is a huge task … But if you compare it from last year to this year, we are like singing and dancing. It is a night and day difference. Now we are faced with as big of a challenge getting from where we are at now to into that top-10.”
The search for speed may be a little tougher for Biffle over the next two weeks. Crew chief Brian Pattie was suspended earlier this week for illegal modifications to the car body at Charlotte. But the team has former crew chief Robbie Reiser filling in for Pattie. Reiser won the 2003 Sprint Cup title with Matt Kenseth.
“That is not a disadvantage to us,” Biffle said about Reiser’s presence. “That is really where the crew chief is important, calling the race, being on the box and making the right pit calls and decisions. I feel like we have somebody that can do that job and I think we will be fine with that.”
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