Greg Biffle

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.

  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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CARL EDWARDS has a need for speed, and Saturday night would be the ideal time for the power to surface in his No. 99 Ford. After winning a Sprint Cup series-high nine races in 2008, Edwards went 0-for-'09. He's still winless this year, as are Roush Fenway teammates Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and David Ragan . Edwards will have to race his way into the Sprint Cup All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the preliminaries. In the series of short races Saturday that lead to the finale, it's all about speed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ONE OF auto racing's attractions is the drivers' spontaneity. The latest example is Boris Said's verbal shots at Greg Biffle following Monday's race at Watkins Glen. Said, now known as "Boris Badenov" (from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show), went off on Biffle after they skirmished in the garage area. Said, a part-timer in NASCAR's Sprint Cup series, said Biffle "is the most unprofessional scaredy cat I've ever seen. He wouldn't fight me like a man, so if someone texts me his address, I'll go see him and show him what he really needs.

LONG POND - Last summer, Greg Biffle severely criticized Pocono Raceway's unsafe conditions. In a roundtable discussion with four other top Sprint Cup drivers in Sports Illustrated, Biffle said: "They could probably still do a little bit of work at Pocono. They're going to kill somebody there. " Fresh in Biffle's mind was Kasey Kahne's crash that previous June, when his car almost soared over the 39-inch high retaining wall between Turns 1 and 2. Then, a month after the SI interview, Elliott Sadler survived one of the worst crashes ever at Pocono.