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CUP: Biffle Heading Off-Road In The Desert
Written by: SPEED Staff
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04/15/2009
Charlotte, NC
 
Greg Biffle will be competing in the Best in the Desert Terrible’s 250 in a F-150 SVT Raptor. (Photo: LAT Photographic) » More Photos

Greg Biffle drives cars for a living, trucks and motorcycles because he loves them, and bulldozers to get work done on his North Carolina property.

This week, the phrase “making tracks” becomes a new experience for Biffle, who is scheduled to participate in his first-ever off-road competition in Primm, Nev.

He’ll drive the F-150 SVT Raptor in the Best in the Desert Terrible’s 250 on Thursday, April 16. Specifically, Biffle is participating in the event’s Fun Run, a different sort of tune-up before he heads south for this week’s SUBWAY Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

He admits it’s a challenge he couldn’t resist.

“I really enjoy off-road-ing,” Biffle said. “I enjoy my sand car. I’ve never run pre-Baja or anything like that and I might do that this year, but I’ve never really been in a specific off-road.”

He gets that opportunity this week, thanks to Ford engineers
seeking some professional feedback for the F-150 SVT Raptor.

The truck part certainly isn’t unfamiliar.

Biffle is the 2000 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion — and the 2002 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion — and he’s spent plenty of his own time tooling around deserts in a recreational sand vehicle.

The potential of barreling over cacti and rocks in a truck is more the unknown.

“I think that I would be more of a closed-course guy than wide open across the desert, not knowing what’s over the next hump,” Biffle said. “Just going wide open where you have no idea what’s coming up may not be the thing for me. I don’t even do that on the sand dunes. I get to know my area fairly well when I’m there and then you can have a lot of fun.”

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