After contact with Jeff Gordon resulted in a huge crash as Greg Biffle was running second in the waning laps of Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout, Biffle let Gordon off the hook.
Greg Biffle Says Jeff Gordon Spun Him In Shootout
At the time, Biffle told reporters he likely had a tire going down. Wednesday, he changed his tune.
“I had a suspicion coming to the green that the tire may have been soft, but when I went across Turn 1 and 2 it felt fine, so that kind of foiled the idea that I may have had a tire going down,” Biffle said. “I wasn’t sure what happened until I saw the tape and say the replay.
“Upon further review of the tape, it appears [Gordon] was agains the bumper when I entered the corner, so it’s obvious why the car spun out, I think.”
After the Shootout, Gordon expressed regret for the wreck but said Biffle had spun due to either old tires or a flat. The wreck took out several cars, including Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman and Bobby Labonte.
“We were pushing him real, real hard,” Gordon said. “At that point, you don’t have a choice – they’re pushing you from behind, and you’re pushing the guy in front of you. And when that’s the situation, you hope that in Greg’s position, you get in there and the car sticks. And it didn’t stick for whatever reason.
“It came around in a hurry, that’s for sure. I was wanting to push him, I wasn’t wanting to spin him.”
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