Greg Biffle won Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway, giving Ford Motor Co. and injured Roush Fenway Racing team co-owner Jack Roush their first victory of 2010.Pulling away from the rest of the field after a rain delay of more than 17 minutes, Biffle beat pole-sitter Tony Stewart to the finish line by 3.598 seconds to win Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway. Biffle also broke a 65-race winless streak to score his first win since Kansas Speedway in the 2008 Chase for the Sprint Cup. Biffle won Chase races at New Hampshire and Dover in 2008 before falling into a 64-race winless drought. However Bifflie gift his victory to his boss Jack Roush, who suffered injuries to his face and eye when he crash-landed his plane
"I wish he was here, and I'm sure he's watching, and this one's for him. It's been really tough. We worked so hard. I'm glad he thinks of me like that," Biffle said. "No matter how grim the outcome can be, I'll still be digging."
Biffle crew chief Greg Erwin commented as well:
"The whole company needed it. I can't really explain what this means. I know [Roush] is with us. This is a brand-new car at Indianapolis and we brought it here because we liked it so much."
Carl Edwards, who is also team''s driver came third, said his boss sounded in good spirits.
"He was Jack. Don't mess anything up. Don't wreck. He's been through a lot this last week. He really needed that victory. That's pretty cool. I'm sure he's really hard to handle for all those nurses in the hospital."
Series points leader Kevin Harvick was 4rth and Denny Hamlin 5th. 6th-place finisher Jeff Gordon saw his bid for his first victory since April 2009 disappear when a four-tire stop under caution on Lap 167 of 200 left him mired in traffic behind cars that took two tires or fuel only. Gordon led 39 laps, second only to teammate Jimmie Johnson's 96. althogh the champion duo of Hendrick Motorsports was leading most of the race couldn't stay on top on the last red flagged session.
The start of the 500-mile race was delayed by rain, and another rain delay was the second time the race was red-flagged. After a stoppage of nearly 29 minutes to clear the debris from a horrific crash involving Kurt Busch, Elliott Sadler and Clint Bowyer on Lap 165, the race took a bizarre turn. All of the lead-lap drivers -- except Sam Hornish Jr. -- came to pit road for four tires, two tires or fuel only.
Hornish stayed on the track, inherited the lead and ran 11 laps under yellow before NASCAR stopped the field on pit road with 23 laps remaining. But, after the rain delay, Biffle went to the front on the restart on Lap 180 and never looked back.
The rain was exactly what Biffle needed to win the race.
"I felt like we didn't have the best car [Sunday]. For some reason, when it cooled down, this car just took off -- that's all there was to it. The temperature cooled down, we really didn't make any adjustments, and the thing just started going on the restarts and got in clean air, and the thing just took off. I don't know what happened."
Hornish raced hard over the last 21 laps but faded to 11th at the finish.
Race was actually a clear domination of Hendrick Motorsports as Gordon and Johnson were in the lead of the filed with only Montoya trying to threat their domination.
On Lap 165, Johnson attempted to bump-draft Busch as the cars approached Turn 2 and instead turned the No. 2 Dodge sideways. After twice turning across the nose of Bowyer's Chevrolet, Busch slammed into the inside fence.
Busch's analysis of the incident was succinct. "I got wrecked on the straightaway," he said. "Jimmie Johnson drove straight through us."
Johnson wasn't surprised by Busch's assessment.
"Kurt isn't very fond of me. He never has been. I think when he has a chance to take a shot at me, he'll probably do so. But certainly nothing intentional, and if he'd like to talk about it, I'm more than willing to talk about it."
Johnson, who apologized over his radio, explained his side of the incident.
"I came up to bump-draft him and push him along down the back straightaway. So, we did make some contact. He was already wobbling, and I bumped him, and then it [Busch's No. 2 Dodge] was wobbling some more, then eventually it did a lazy turn to the right and into the wall.
I certainly feel bad. I'm glad the No. 19 [Sadler] is OK. I understand he took a heck of a hit. Last thing I wanted to do was cause a wreck or crash the No. 2 or anything like that. I feel bad about that, but we were all just racing real hard down the back."
Sadler got the worst of the race, as his No. 19 Ford slowed and then spun after contact from behind. Sadler's car plowed nose-first into the inside guardrail and berm behind it with enough force to rip the engine from the car.
When safety trucks removed the debris from the infield, Sadler's engine was completely found out of the car. Despite the severity of the impact, Sadler later walked out of the infield care center.
"I'm fine. I'm OK," he said. "I'm a little sore, I think, from where the belts grabbed me. It knocked the breath out of me pretty good, but it's definitely the hardest hit I've ever had in a race car.
I'm not sure what happened. I know some guys got spun out and moved up in front of us, and I saw some smoke. Everybody started checking up, and I checked up, but whoever was behind did not -- and ran in the back of us and knocked me down through the grass."
The Associated Press contributed to this report
