Biffle Ready To Test Bump Drafting Limits

Greg Biffle has never been afraid to beat and bang in a race car. As far as he is concerned, that’s just part of racing.

Now that NASCAR has lifted its bump drafting restrictions at Daytona Int’l Speedway and Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway and placed the regulation of bump drafting back with the drivers, Biffle said he feels “more comfortable” with racing at the restrictor-plate kingdoms.

But just because he’s more comfortable racing at those tracks doesn’t mean he’s more comfortable with those beating and banging around him.

“I may be a little more nervous with some of the other people that I’m going to be racing with — they don’t maybe quite know what the limit is — and, let’s face it, as a race car driver, we test the limit every lap, whether we’re at California or Vegas,” said Biffle.

“We’re drivers, we know what the limits are,” Biffle said. “Now that NASCAR has said, ‘We’re not gonna be the limit,’ the limit becomes when the guy in front of you spins out — when you push him too much — so we have to regulate that ourselves.”

NASCAR began regulating bump drafting a few years ago after several crashes were caused by aggressive driving at Daytona and Talladega, including a crash started by Biffle’s teammate Carl Edwards at Talladega in 2008.

“NASCAR wasn’t enforcing the no bump drafting and we all wrecked,” Biffle said of that crash, which was started when Edwards tried to bump draft in the middle of turns three and four.

Biffle is confident, however, that NASCAR’s decision to let the drivers regulate bump drafting will work out positively for all involved.

“NASCAR said, ‘OK, fine. You guys can do what you want. Police yourself,’ so we’re going to go back to policing ourselves,” Biffle said. “There’s going to be more action because people are going to be testing that limit and pushing more, so it’s going to be a little bit more aggressive and a little bit more action, and, inevitably, maybe another accident or two along the way.”

Who knows, Biffle might just be the cause of a few of those accidents.

“I’m going to test it (the limit). I’m going to push until somebody spins out,” Biffle said.

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