The pilot of Roush Racing, Greg Biffle, guessed right the best aerodynamic combination in his Ford, to take to the Car Club 500 in California Speedway, second been worth of popular North American series NASCAR.
Biffle, winner of the last race of calendar 2004 in November, solidly lead throughout the 250 returns adjudging itself the leadership of the test in return 228. From the pilot of Ford it constructed a small difference there to cross the line of sentence in front of Jimmie Johnson.
“Three returns of the end I began to lose grip back”, said Biffle. “In a pair of occasions my car slid and I cleared the wall, but I managed to control the situation”, culminated Greg.
For the equipment Roush Racing it has been a great weekend. The victory of Biffle, the third position of Busch locates that it in the leadership of the contest, the fifth position of Carl Edwards and seventh of Mark Martin, has been an exceptional sample of power of the Ford of Roush Jack.
Who has not had luck was champion 2003 of the series, Matt Kenseth, that after staying enters top ten during almost all the day, underwent reventón of a tire sent that it until 26º put.
The key of the race happened in the turn 218, when Busch running 2º and Biffle 5º, remained in track while their rivals entered to resupply themselves.
On Jimmie end Johnson it did a great one overcome from 10º put to 2º. With fresh tires in its Chevy, Jimmie exceeded nine cars to hardly culminate 0.230c behind the Taurus de Biffle.
“It could to gain this race”, affirmed Johnson. “But in overcome my I was with many stragglers that did not do the very easy life to me …”, it sentenced.
Jamie McMurray, Dodge, ended 4º followed of Carl Edward and Kevin Harvick.
The Car Club 500 was the first race where the NASCAR cars competed with back spoilers more softer boys and tires, in an attempt to improve the competitiveness of the series. With these changes downforce of the cars was reduced looking for to prioritize therefore the ability of each conductor.
Others of the introduced changes have been the restriction to modify setup of the cars after the classification of the day Saturday. Sunday they only allow to minor adjustments in the putting point of the cars, a measurement similar to the introduced one by the F1 as of this year.
“It is difficult to find the correct balance of the car in so just a short time”, thought the Busch champion. “In my opinion he would have been better to practice plus this measurement in the Busch series, and soon if to introduce it in the Nextel series.”
With 2º put in Daytona and 3º obtained in California, Kurt Busch now leads the championship with 5 points of advantage on Jimmie Johnson.
In the table of the championship it excels the scaling of positions of Biffle, that advanced 19 squares to be located 5º, whereas for the winner of Daytona 500, Jeff Gordon, the fall has been very abrupt, of 1º happened to 10º after concluding 30º after to have problems in the V8 of its Chevy.

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