Greg Biffle Says He Should Have Left Roush Racing | The Dale Jr. Download 

Greg has morals. Really refreshing and encouraging. Old school loyalty. Amazing.

Need to get Carl Edwards on the show. That would make for some good conversation!

It's so nice to see Greg be honest about his experience at Roush. Saying that they didn't spend the money and technology to stay competitive l, and the contract offers he got, it really makes you think how elite Greg Biffle really could have been if he had switched teams.

Greg really did a great job filling in a lot of details behind the decline of Roush Racing. Can’t wait to listen to the whole thing.

Biffle's loyalty cost him for sure. Mark Martin left and got into better equipment and won more races.

I never realized that Greg is a great speaker and story teller

Jamie Mac is a good example too. Leaves Roush in 09 and in 10 he wins 3 races including Daytona. Jamie said he always felt like he was being lied to at Roush. Never felt like home. Interesting

I miss ole Greg Biffle. I occasionally watch race win compilations of his just to relive good memories. God, I miss him.

Really cool to hear from Biffle. in 2005/2006 he was unstoppable, so were the other four Roush teams, and then it all went away.

I love when a guest just starts talking and Jr. senses that they’re going to spill alot, he knows to listen and let them say too much. Epic.

In my home, we love good hard racing - dicey moves, pit strategy, tire strategy, take no prisoners.. and back in the day, we (especially my dad) really liked to watch Greg Biffle. He was a scrapper, seemed to be as tenacious as Ryan Newman when it came to getting around him for position (not like Pull Over & Wave'em By Mark Martin), and just ran his guts out on every lap. He didn't give excuses to TV or radio either. Mad respect. His loyalty to Jack Roush did cost him a Cup championship, but in a way I could understand it - you dance with one who got you to the party. To hear Greg talk so passionately in this interview still, years (almost a decade!) after the fact, shows to me it's something stuck in his crawl. Visions of Coulda Woulda Shoulda? 20/20 Hindsight? With Brad Keselowski and the modern grasp on how technology of this sport evolves AND what to do about it, hopefully RFK will be able to overcome what I still consider a major deficiency in their arsenal ESPECIALLY with the NextGen POS cars. Good interview DMP and DJD! Sure hope y'all're gonna be able to swing a pre- or post- college football season interview with Eli Gold, and my favorite MRN reporter (and HOF exec director) Winston Kelley, and longtime celebrity/fan Riki Rachtman sometime soon!

I feel like I like Biffle 150% better after he stopped driving. I love his honesty and openness

So impressed with Greg and really appreciate this conversation as a learning experience.

Good to hear from Greg. One of my favorite drivers.

He’s right about the people thing. Get the right people in there and it would’ve been different. Letting Wally Brown go was the first crack along with some of the aero guys. Greg really is a great person to talk to. He was at Jack’s HoF ceremony, and we talked a good bit. Robbie should’ve been over the shop. And hiring some killers would’ve changed it all. Maybe Brad can get it back. I think he will.

Extremely loyal! Extremely talented! Wish he would have left but its hes a man of his word and they dont make him like that

Johnny Benson and Allen Bestwick would be two good ones I'd love to see on the show

Mark Martin was Roush racing in my book

Ward Burton suffered the same fate. Ward was loyal to Bill Davis, and was tossed aside at the end of 03 in favor of Scott Wimmer, who was just plain awful in Cup. Had Biff left when Carl and Matt did, maybe he could have a better ride. But instead, he remained and in a way fell victim to the charter system

I just pray Brad K sees this and hires Greg as partner. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

One of the best and most informative interviews. Great work all!

Super cool to learn some of the details of this sport. I was never a fan of NASCAR until seeing this show. I had no idea what made a team good or bad and what goes on behind the scenes. I also didn’t know how technical it is and interesting . Thanks for the awesome video/show🙂👍

Wow! Greg is really open and willing to talk... not to mention a really good speaker.. why isn't he in the booth announcing or a pit road reporter? That would be awesome!.. Proud to say he comes from my neck of the woods...

Such a great conversation. Would have never guessed (my bad) that Greg was such a great communicator. This is one I could listen to for days.

Awesome show, the Biff is awesome, it is fascinating hearing the deep dives into those glory years of the early-mid-2000s. The sport was on fire, Roush was a powerhouse, especially after the Yates engines partnership came in. Still remember Kurt running the Biff over in the All-star race in 04 or 05, when Kurt had the Yates engine and Greg the Roush, the power difference was amazing.

This interview confirms my thoughts on what was happening at Roush. Was so sad to see Martin getting beat out of the pits and losing 2 to 6 positions every time he'd go in as Gordon's crew was doing 12 second pits. Could NOT understand why Roush chose not to answer such a huge game changing component. I guess he thought Mark could just race his way through all the cars each and every time he lost positions in the pits. You wear your car out eventually AND your drivers. Roush refused to move forward with all the technology like he was afraid of it or he thought he could beat it with experience. His stubbornness was the teams downfall. Biffle took the high road in this interview.

Greg Biffle was a local racer, everyone at Portland speedway was expecting big things from him. I met him several times, he was around mutual friends of my father's. We were so excited when he ran trucks and then cup cars.

Great interview as always. Keep them coming! Please get more racers on the show like Ron Fellows, Derrike Cope, Dorsey Schroeder. Maybe another round of DW.

That brought about a very interesting perspective. Some of it I already saw, yet areas like Jack Rousch wanting the crews to have a big say in the direction of that car. I still have immense respect for Jack. He is very capable at so many different forms of motor sports that should amaze people when they only begin to hear of how much impact that he made in motor sports. This is one of my favorite podcast

I didn’t think too much of Greg when he started driving but I have since heard from him now and Martin and Kenneth about some of the inner workings at Rousch. It is refreshing to hear all these different perspectives from the teams I watched rise and fall. To be honest, Greg was a much too talented driver to stay at Rousch as long as he did.

If you’re a Greg Biffle fan gimme a hell yea ! 👍🏻

Jack crashed a couple airplanes and suffered some very serious injuries. Greg, Carl, Matt and Mark were all pilots and flew them selves to work regularly. Aviation bound them together, and nearly cost a couple of them everything a few times. I don't know if Jack's accidents affected his ability to lead his organisation but they sure didn't help.

love these videos so cool to get inside the driver's heads and learn what it takes to compete.

Great content thanks for sharing

wonderful episode....

I remember talking to Mark Martin at Richmond in the first year of the radial tires, he said he and Roush were having trouble adjusting to them. Also talked to Mark at Bristol in the first year of the Nascar issued ignition, and the first year of the Fuel Injection. They were way behind in the tech. involved. Jack was old school carb. and ignition guy, so they stayed behind the curve.

Excellent interview!

Greg Biffle was one of my favorite drivers in the early-mid 2000's.

Fascinating. Love Biffle and his stories. 👍👍

A very underrated and under appreciated driver. He had a ton of talent and admittedly said he was afraid to make a change.

Thank you for the video.

Nice to see Greg Biffle and here his story about his experience at Roush I have a piece of his Busch car my cousins husband a longtime ago took me on a tour at Roush’s race shop and gave me a souvenir of a big piece of Greg Biffle’s sheet metal on his wrecked car

I wanna see Ragan on the show at some point!

What an awesome perspective. Love it.

That was a GREAT episode Learned alot

Fascinating interview

When Roush Racing was the top Ford team along with Robert Yates Racing, they were the top 5 championship standings every year. Biffle mentioned how much as a team struggle to catch their competition with advancing techs and engineering. Should he had left? Could be. Kenseth and Edwards left Roush for JGR and Roush won two more cup races in 2017 with Stenhouse. Penske and then SHR became the two top Ford teams, Roush was the third Ford team that continue to find its winning form. Hopefully with Keselowski taking part of the team's ownership, the team will turn it around eventually. Not this year but future down the road. Biff did came back and won Texas truck race with KBM Toyota. Biff still has the fire in him.

Man it hurts to hear Greg Biffle say that he was loyal to the sponsors 3M and others is why he didn't wanna leave. Because if you remember in 2015 when Roush was running bad 3M dropped there full season sponsorship to join Jeff Gordon's retirement tour! An he had to find full funding for 2015. And then to watch Edwards and Kenseth have the best seasons of there careers and almost a championship. His loyalty was is Downfall!!

awesome conversation

Love the you tube video better than the podcast because i can see the reaction n stuff. But love what u doing. Is so cool to learn of stuff that we wouldn't know if u didn't make this happen. So thank you

Enjoyed hearing Biffle’s take. Would love to hear Carl Edwards also.

Great video!

Always liked Greg, great racer. Got to meet him too, nice fellow. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened had he made a move.

Cool interview from Greg. shed some light on Roush Racing

So much honesty here. It's a great listen and I think Greg being so loyal for so long probably shaved years off his Cup career as a result.

@8:20 big reason for the need for this new car IMO. Imagine being the driver and trying to overcome being down 90 pounds of downforce. Good interview.

I was a Roush fan big time, always wondered what happened but it was obvious that all the drivers were having trouble

This was REALLY REALLY good Hope Greg comes back or Jack comes on to explain in more detail about this

I never paid much attention to Greg during his career but he comes off as one of the more intelligent guests to appear on this show. I never disliked him just treated him as an afterthought. He seems like a cool guy. I’ll root for him when watching old races now lol

Greg biffle...the biff I still remember when he won at homestead when Johnson lost championship by 8 pts. If Johnson could have passed him and won he would have 8 championships. But if he had won that first one then maybe it would have messed up his drive to win others. Never know but I remember not liking bif for a long time because of that one race. Lol He was a great driver!

Unfortunately , hind sight is 20 20 . We the fans at the time, loved watchin all of ya mix it up. GOOD MEMORIES. 😎

what a great conversation. i was never a Biffle fan back then because it seemed he would settle for second place and not even try. But at times, i think it was with Grainger sponsorship, he was scary fast. And he showed in SRX he is still fast ! Another one that retired too soon imo

I absolutely love the respect these 2 have for one another the way they all learn from Biffle and the way Biffle respects Dale, I always admired Biffle's driving style and loyalty. We truly need to understand who is speaking here.

I miss watching him battle Jimmy Johnson. Great racing

I've been hoping for the Biff to be interviewed by Junior. This is going to be a good one, for sure! I hope that Junior will get Biff to tell his side of the story about Benny discovering him in the Northwest and his relationship with Benny Parsons.

i like to seeing meeting Bill E , on his time with Dale E SR and others too,

It's pretty cool to hear and see Greg Biffle talk about the inside stuff

Is there anywhere we can get thesefull podcasts on video? I could be missing something, but as far as I can tell there isn't.

That would have been an interesting timeline. JGR just signed Kyle Busch from Hendrick in 08, would have gotten Biffle to drive the 20 in 2009 with Denny Hamlin already on board. Joey stays in the Nationwide Series for another year and perhaps comes up a year later but in a 4th JGR car. Biffle definitely would have won a championship or two with JGR.

Look at when Mark left Roush. He joins a mid-pack team and instantly running up front. Not only does it make you think, what is going on at Roush but the difference in the rules for Ford's and Chevrolet's.

Great t shirt!

I met Biffel in 99 at Livonia Michigan (that was where the Truck and Trans-Am teams were based out of at the time) they were doing some pit stop practice. He was a great guy, very easy going and pleasant to be around. Little did I know what kind of a super star he was to become!

I remember being at the 2013 Michigan race he won. I would watch certain cars lap after lap and his was one of them. His car was flying around that place. He truly drove the car to a win. Pit stops just kept him in the positions he would gain on the track. I knew half way through the race he was a contender for the win.

Funny comments, being a former rouse employee, jack is an amazing engineer, but there was always a tense atmosphere around the main power players that were by jack for 30 years. Very little change over time.

Great interview. Would luv to hear Jack Roush on here.

I always wonder why nobody picked him up after he left Roush. He's a damn good driver and very knowledgeable and could have helped out a b-class team immensely

Good insight into Roush. Interview could only be better if Boris Said walked into the studio! 😂😂😂

Martin should have won a cup at some point in his career with Roush

Words don’t convey how important such things are to have on the record. It changes how the sport as a whole is viewed.

Ah I’m in the middle of the whole podcast! I can’t watch this and ruin it! The RU-vid clips are great for reliving it.

Greg Biffle was bad ass. I remember him at Phoenix Raceway twice. I had seats watching home departing turn 1. Greg was more impressive than any other driver on that track than any other driver. Greg wasn’t the driver I tooted for at the time, but he could kill it at Phoenix.

Great job everybody

Carl needs to be on the Dale Jr Download. Fans need this... Carl's voice needs to be heard... Miss you Biff.

Hello Dale . New Subscriber. ! I herd your dads Museum is closed? I’m in Mooresville. For a few more days sure would love to see it and your Shop ! . My Nephew has a Shop near your building I hear 🤔. Goi g to be shipping sone classic Stock cars this way from California.

Would love to see Johnny Benson interview

I really missed dale jr when he left, now we got him back. I know I am late to the race but I just wanted to say that

Greg would've been way more competitive if he would've jumped to JGR. Hell, by the 2010s he would've been more competitive at RCR.... The guy still has stuff left in the tank, happy he's having success outside of NASCAR

Greg got started in my home town of Portland Oregon and took only a couple years to dominate in the top class at Portland Speedway Because he learned how cars work and built his own cars that Did work,. Watching this made me understand why, as his knowledge is impressive to say the least. Shout out to Roger, his friend and companion car builder at he beginning..

This is amazing

THANK you. Biffle wasn’t at fault for the car, but at the same time, he kept signing multi-year deal after multi-year deal after multi-year deal. He contributed to his own demise. While Martin, Burton, Kenseth, Edwards, Busch, and McMurray all got out and experienced varying levels of further success, Biffle kept chaining himself to the basement radiator

would love to see Kenseth on the show!

Glad you got the Biff on

Knaus at Roush???! That's a scary thought.

Hopefully Brad K can give the team the boost it needs..

Always loved Biff!!!!

Can relate. Have keep up with the times . I've learned surrounding yourself with engineering.

Something that doesn't get much attention is the Yates D3 cylinder head that came out in '04. The single most important factor to the Roush success. Ford was way down in power from the Chevy SB2 that was approved in '98, as Ford was still using the C3 from '91. The D3 was a game changer and if u were a fan at the time it was clear Ford had found a ton of power. So much so NASCAR panicked and made the 4 car team rule bc Roush took up half the playoff field in '05. The success likely would have continued for years had Toyota not joined, having no OHV engine they built one from the ground up. They built an engine so radical even after several rejections NASCAR knew it was light years ahead of the production based engines everyone was using. The solution was to they allow each manufacturer to design a new strictly racing engine from the ground up. This was a truly great era when NASCAR was the fasting growing sport in America.

What a great driver . The Biff ran hard every lap.

Yes get Carl on the show.

Greg was a regional Winston West driver and raced our local track nearly every week. He had (has?) a lot of talent. Like Mark Martin… always the bridesmaid never the bride, so to speak.