NASCAR At Michigan 2012: Greg Biffle Wins After Jimmie Johnson Blows Engine

They’re baaack!

Greg Biffle, Roush Fenway Racing and Ford Motor Company all celebrated the end of a drought Sunday with Biffle’s victory in the Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway.

Most of the day looks dry out at Michigan International Speedway for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race. If we see any showers it would be in the mid to late afternoon.

The overall chance of showers is small but with an approaching cold front, cool air already in place and very warm August sun a few scattered showers and even an isolated storm is possible.

With roughly 10 minutes left in final practice Saturday at Michigan International Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. suddenly crashed. As such, NASCAR’s most popular driver lost both his winning car from the last Michigan race and his 22nd starting position, because his team is using a backup for Sunday’s race.

For Earnhardt Jr., this is a particularly tough blow as he was optimistic he could use the same car to sweep the season at Michigan.

A week after NASCAR’s reluctance to call a caution for an oiled track at Watkins Glen cost him a top-10 finish, Jeff Gordon pleaded for more consistency from NASCAR officials.

Gordon – an avid sports fan – equated the non-call to a referee swallowing his whistle in the closing moments of an NBA game. So if that’s the practice NASCAR wants to follow going forward, he said, the policy needs to stay the same from week-to-week.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., if you haven’t heard, is a polite guy. He doesn’t like to disappoint anyone, and that includes reporters who ask him a question – even if he doesn’t have much of an answer.

Because of that, what occasionally happens is he’ll drop what we’ll call a “Juniorism” – an overly simple answer, but an answer nonetheless.