Greg Biffle

THIS WEEK'S RACE Pocono 400 presented by #NASCAR Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. When: Sunday, 1 p.m. TV/Radio: TNT/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: 2.5-mile tri-oval Race distance: 400 miles/160 laps Race forecast: chance of thunderstorms, low 80s Last year's winner: Jeff Gordon Last year's pole winner: Kurt Busch, 171.579 mph Track qualifying record: Kasey Kahne, 172.533 mph (June 2004)

THIS WEEK'S RACE Toyota/Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif. When: Sunday, 3 p.m. TV/Radio: TNT/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: 1.99-mile, 12-turn road course Race distance: 110 laps/350 kilometers (219 miles) Race forecast: sunny, mid-70s Last year's winner: Kurt Busch Last year's pole winner: Joey Logano, 93.256 mph Track qualifying record: Jeff Gordon, 94.325 mph (June 2005) Track facts: Kurt Busch led four times for 76 laps, including the last 23, to win last year's race.

Elliott Sadler went 14 years without a victory in the Nationwide Series. Now, he has two in the last three weeks. Sadler picked up his second victory of the season Saturday when his crew chief left him out on the track on old tires during the final caution at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. The call put Sadler in the lead on the final restart, with 28 laps remaining, and he easily held off Kasey Kahne and Brad Keselowski. All four Nationwide races this season have been won by drivers who don't compete in the elite Sprint Cup Series.

DARLINGTON, S.C. - Sprint Cup points leader Greg Biffle won his second career pole at Darlington Raceway, sweeping past the Hendrick Motorsports duo of Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne to start up front for the Southern 500. Biffle won this race in 2005 and 2006, the first two years that Darlington's event was moved to Mother's Day weekend. Biffle was the next-to-last to hit the track for qualifying with a speed of 180.257 m.p.h. and pushed past Johnson and Kahne - who each finished with identical speeds of 179.556 m.p.h.

CONCORD, N.C. - Kasey Kahne powered to victory in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, winning NASCAR's longest race for the third time for his first win with Hendrick Motorsports. Kahne also gave car owner Rick Hendrick his 201st Sprint Cup series win. Kahne crossed the finish line nearly five seconds ahead of Denny Hamlin. Kyle Busch was third and series points leader Greg Biffle fourth. It was Kahne's 13th career win and his first since last November in Phoenix.

  MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Kasey Kahne won his second Sprint Cup pole of the season. He's hoping his first top 10 finish of the season will come with it. "It was a really solid lap. We didn't have the most speed [in practice], but we had good balance in the car," said Kahne, who posted a lap of 97.128 mph Saturday at Martinsville Speedway. "It's a tough track to qualify and a tough track to race. Hopefully, we can have a good day on Sunday. " Kevin Harvick, last year's winner of this race, qualified second.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Roush Fenway Racing will have three cars at the front of the season-opening Daytona 500. Matt Kenseth won the second of the twin 150-mile qualifying races Thursday with a bold pass of teammate Greg Biffle. The victory gave Kenseth a spot on the second row for Sunday's race - right behind teammates Carl Edwards and Biffle. Tony Stewart, the defending NASCAR champion, won the first race and will line up next to Kenseth at Daytona International Speedway.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Carl Edwards fell bitterly short in last season's bid to win the NASCAR championship. He's starting 2012 out front. Edwards, who lost the championship last season on a tiebreaker to Tony Stewart, won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, beating teammate Greg Biffle for the top starting spot during a windy Sunday qualifying session at Daytona International Speedway. Edwards turned a lap at 194.738 mph - the fastest pole-winning speed since Jeff Gordon's lap of 195.067 mph in 1999.

Greg Biffle was proud of himself for an unlikely reason after winning the GFS Marketplace 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich. yesterday. "The guys did a great job and I didn't make any mistakes, which is pretty unusual for me to race an entire day and not make any mistakes," Biffle said after pulling away to beat teammate Mark Martin by 8.216 seconds. Biffle, the only driver to win both the Busch and Craftsman Truck series championships, has struggled through most of his 65-race Nextel Cup career, finishing 20th in points last year as a rookie and failing to become a contender this season.

BROOKLYN, Mich. - Kyle Busch won his fourth Sprint Cup race of the year, outlasting Jimmie Johnson in a green-white-checkered finish at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Busch, the series points leader coming into the race, passed Johnson with about a dozen laps remaining and was opening up a comfortable margin when brother Kurt Busch scraped a wall, forcing a caution from laps 198 to 201. The yellow flag erased much of Kyle Busch's lead, but he was able to fight off a quick move from Johnson after the restart and pull away.

DOVER, Del. - Brian Dawkins warmed up for his number retirement ceremony at Sunday night's Eagles-Giants game by serving as the AAA 400's grand marshal. Addressing the estimated crowd of 80,000 at Dover International Speedway, Dawkins pumped his right arm and said, "Can you feel that?" Then he offered "these inspirational words, drivers, start your engines!" Earlier, referring to the Dover race scene, Dawkins said, "I'm in awe. Seeing things from behind the scenes is a lot different from seeing it on TV. But some of the things that these guys have to go through and the mentality that they have to keep in order to represent their sponsors before the [race]

BROOKLYN, Mich. - Jimmie Johnson looked as if he had already finished the hardest work. After starting at the back of the pack, he had moved up quickly, and when he passed Brad Keselowski for the lead on Lap 191 of 200, his No. 48 Chevrolet seemed to be the superior car. Then Johnson's engine faltered with only six laps remaining. He lost the race - and the NASCAR Sprint Cup points lead - to Greg Biffle on Sunday. "I got it turned around and was catching him, and then his engine failed," Biffle said.

BROOKLYN, Mich. - Greg Biffle won the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday when leader Jimmie Johnson left the track because of engine trouble with six laps left. Johnson started the race from the back because of an engine change, but made it all the way to the lead and looked as though he had the superior car after passing Brad Keselowski on Lap 191 of 200. But Johnson couldn't hold on, and Biffle took advantage. After Johnson faltered, there was a caution for oil on the track, and Biffle held off Keselowski by 0.416 seconds in the green-white-checkered finish.

THIS WEEK'S RACE Toyota/Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif. When: Sunday, 3 p.m. TV/Radio: TNT/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: 1.99-mile, 12-turn road course Race distance: 110 laps/350 kilometers (219 miles) Race forecast: sunny, mid-70s Last year's winner: Kurt Busch Last year's pole winner: Joey Logano, 93.256 mph Track qualifying record: Jeff Gordon, 94.325 mph (June 2005) Track facts: Kurt Busch led four times for 76 laps, including the last 23, to win last year's race.

THIS WEEK'S RACE Pocono 400 presented by #NASCAR Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. When: Sunday, 1 p.m. TV/Radio: TNT/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: 2.5-mile tri-oval Race distance: 400 miles/160 laps Race forecast: chance of thunderstorms, low 80s Last year's winner: Jeff Gordon Last year's pole winner: Kurt Busch, 171.579 mph Track qualifying record: Kasey Kahne, 172.533 mph (June 2004)

CONCORD, N.C. - Kasey Kahne powered to victory in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, winning NASCAR's longest race for the third time for his first win with Hendrick Motorsports. Kahne also gave car owner Rick Hendrick his 201st Sprint Cup series win. Kahne crossed the finish line nearly five seconds ahead of Denny Hamlin. Kyle Busch was third and series points leader Greg Biffle fourth. It was Kahne's 13th career win and his first since last November in Phoenix.

DARLINGTON, S.C. - Sprint Cup points leader Greg Biffle won his second career pole at Darlington Raceway, sweeping past the Hendrick Motorsports duo of Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne to start up front for the Southern 500. Biffle won this race in 2005 and 2006, the first two years that Darlington's event was moved to Mother's Day weekend. Biffle was the next-to-last to hit the track for qualifying with a speed of 180.257 m.p.h. and pushed past Johnson and Kahne - who each finished with identical speeds of 179.556 m.p.h.

TALLADEGA, Ala. - Brad Keselowski got a huge push from Kyle Busch to take the lead with a lap to go Sunday, then was able to prevent Busch from taking the Sprint Cup win away from him at Talladega Superspeedway. A nine-car accident with four laps left brought out the yellow flag, setting up a two-lap overtime sprint to the finish. Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth was the leader, and chose the outside line for the restart so Roush Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle could line up behind him and push him to the victory.

  MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Kasey Kahne won his second Sprint Cup pole of the season. He's hoping his first top 10 finish of the season will come with it. "It was a really solid lap. We didn't have the most speed [in practice], but we had good balance in the car," said Kahne, who posted a lap of 97.128 mph Saturday at Martinsville Speedway. "It's a tough track to qualify and a tough track to race. Hopefully, we can have a good day on Sunday. " Kevin Harvick, last year's winner of this race, qualified second.

PERHAPS Tony Stewart should change his nickname from "Smoke" to "Sizzle. " Stewart has won two of the season's first five Sprint Cup races. Combine his five victories in the 10 Chase races last year and he has seven W's in his last 15 races. That's sizzling! So much for concerns about his adjusting to new crew chief Steve Addington. "Steve did an awesome job all day of the changes that he made," Stewart said after winning Sunday's rain-shortened race at California. "Every time he changed something, the car really responded well to it. That's when you know you have a real good race car under you, when you make little changes and it makes a big difference.