NASCAR fines Biffle for Busch Media violation
Quote selected text Published July 31st, 2007 in NASCAR News
NASCAR officials announced today that Greg Biffle has been fined $5,000 and placed on probation until Dec. 31, for failing to fulfill his postrace media obligations Saturday night following the NASCAR Busch Series race at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis.
Biffle finished second in the race and was, therefore, required to fulfill postrace interview obligations. The Roush Fenway Racing driver did not do so.
- Biffle apologizes for Busch media snub, says it was misunderstanding
- Gibbs promises stiffer in-house penalties
- NASCAR hands down penalty to the # 5 and # 70
- Biffle could be fined by NASCAR
- #24, #48, Hendrick fined, crew chiefs suspended, points taken for Sonoma violation
OOOH that’ll teach him!! Wonder how he’ll ever recover from that kind of hit in the pocketbook?
hahaha right? They need to s__t or get off the pot, preferably the
latter. Either start penalizing them so it actually matters or stop
trying to carry on this big brother facade.
Does anyone really care what Biffle would have said had he gone anyway?
since when is it a rule where u HAVE to talk to the media after the race
anon, it’s stated in the entry blank and repeated at every driver’s meeting. Always been that way.
Billy- i agree. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
nascar really needs to get with it they fined tony stewert 10000 dollars back in april for the same thing but i think he came in like 2nd or 3rd so how fair is that
dubbiedaddy, they probably didn’t fine Biffle as much because it was the Busch series, not Cup. Biffle made half as much money (at best) as Smoke did in the race he skipped the media, so it would only be fair to penalize Biffle less than Stewart. $5000 probably puts the penalty in the same ballpark percentage-wise, which I feel is fair.
Anon, you don’t HAVE to talk to the media unless you’re in the top 3, I think. They require the top 3 to go to the media room after the race and that’s what these guys were skipping. If you wreck out or finish 18th, I don’t think you’re obligated to talk to anyone if you don’t want to.
Isn’t this what they put Tony Stewart on probation for too? I can’t remember the race, but, I know the fact that he’s already on probation is what caused his fine to be higher than Junior had in 2004. Love the fact that they make you stay for media obligations when what most of them have to say other than the winner isn’t really shown.
whoops..sorry dubbiedaddy..didn’t realize you answered my question before I asked.
Again they go after a driver for something that didn’t happen on the track. This crap needs to stop.
Biffle needs to show up the next time and answer every question “I just did my best” and not say one word more.