Greg Biffle celebrated the season finale by winning for the third year in a row. Credit: Autostock

10 Questions: Greg Biffle

Greg Biffle did a perfect job of setting himself up for the 2007 Nextel Cup season by winning the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

In the course of the entire 2006 Busch Series season, however, Biffle perhaps did even better as he finished ninth in the championship despite missing five races.

Biffle took a break recently to answer 10 questions not necessarily connected to his racing career.

1. Greg, what's your least favorite household chore?

	Greg Biffle won two races in 2006 -- Darlington and Homestead -- and finished 13th in the standings. Credit: Autostock
	Inside the Numbers Biffle's 2006 Cup Series stats Wins 2 Top-5s 8 Top-10s 15 Avg. Start 14.4 Avg. Finish 18.8 Poles 2 DNFs 6 Rank 13 Earnings $4,469,333 • Complete stats, click here HomesteadGreg Biffle finishes the season strong with a victory DarlingtonGreg Biffle dedicates his victory to his mother Sign up for TrackPass now BUY THE NEXTEL i836

Biffle: That's a good question. But probably my least favorite household chore is cleaning all the leaves up from around the swimming pool. I have trees on both sides of my lot, so that's a daily activity.

Yes, I do get someone to clean them out of my gutters. I remember when Jack Sprague fell off a ladder cleaning his -- and I don't know if I'm like Jack about this, but I'm sort of independent.

I like doing stuff myself. And I love doing stuff outside, too. But just because it's so annoying, that has to be at the bottom, because you clean 'em up one day, and the next day it looks like you haven't even been out there in a month.

2. What's your ideal break from the racing grind?

Biffle: My ideal break comes in the wintertime when I spend time at my house in Mexico. I love it there, the weather is beautiful and there's nothing [you have] to do.

It's near San Carlos, down in Mexico. And probably the other thing that goes along with being down there is that I get to go fishing. I've got a boat down there and that's really the thing I get to do -- I get to relax and enjoy that and fish every morning.

3. If you could go back in time, what period in history would you like to live in and why?

Biffle: I think it would be the '60s just because of the cars. I'm gonna say the late '60s, early '70s, probably because of the era that was for cars -- the Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes and Chevelles -- the muscle car era.

4. Which athlete outside of racing do you most admire?

Biffle: There is a couple that I appreciate. I like to watch boxing, and I like watching UFC fighting.

I've watched Oscar de la Hoya fight some, and the other guy that I watch [struggles to remember name]. I guess that tells you how much I watch it. Chuck Liddell -- no, that was who he fought. I'll think of it in a minute.

Muhammad Ali is my all-time favorite boxer. I watched him when I was growing up because my dad always watched him.

5. What is "must-see TV" for you?

Biffle: I used to watch Friends quite a bit, you know, for weekly programming kind of stuff. Now I watch Grey's Anatomy or some of those other shows like that -- just something funny you can lose yourself in for half an hour or so.

6. If you could trade places with anybody for a day, who would it be and why?

Biffle: That's another good question. I don't know. Maybe Paul Allen so I could go on his 400-foot boat, or his 250-foot boat, or whatever it is he has.

After a day I might not want to trade back. Either that or I would say Bill Gates from Microsoft, so I could go spend a little bit of his cash.

7. What's the most embarrassing moment you'll own up to, either in or out of racing?

	Greg Biffle celebrated a Busch Series at California. Credit: Autostock
	Inside the Numbers Biffle's 2006 Busch stats (30 of 35 races) Wins 1 Top-5s 9 Top-10s 18 Avg. Start 15.2 Avg. Finish 14.2 Poles 0 DNFs 4 Rank 9 Earnings $778,547 • Complete stats, click here CaliforniaGreg Biffle celebrates his Busch win at Fontana Sign up for TrackPass now BUY THE NEXTEL i836

Biffle: Well, I tell this story, but it's not so embarrassing for me -- but it is for somebody, I guess. We were under a red flag in a Late Model race at Tucson and I had to go to the bathroom, like, bad.

I was leading the race, and it was a long red-flag condition because they were cleaning up a bunch of stuff. So I was able to [wriggle around] and finesse the seatbelts and I went to the bathroom on the floor of the racecar.

And it started running out on the racetrack because we drilled holes in the [floor of the] car so when we pressure-washed 'em the water would run out of the floorboards.

So it was running down the floorboard and out onto the racetrack and a guy pulls over and hollers over to me, 'Hey, your car's leaking.' I was waving my hand out the window to him, so he came over and I explained to him I had to relieve myself.

So that was kinda funny.

8. What is your favorite recent movie and what's your favorite all-time flick?

Biffle: That's a tough decision, favorite all-time -- because I'm torn between some of the car movies, and a lot of the Steven Seagal movies are really good, you know?

But I'd have to say Gone in 60 Seconds was a pretty good movie. But it would be a tight run against some other movies that I've really enjoyed watching.

Recently, to be perfectly honest with you, I haven't been to a lot of the recent movies. But I'm trying to think, because I have seen a couple of them. Now, what was it that I saw?

I went and saw that Ricky Bobby movie [Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby], but I didn't really like it. I saw something else, but I can't remember the name of it. I'm not much of a movie buff, so that makes it hard.

Sometimes I forget halfway through the movie what I'm watching, but I like the movie. Some of the stuff I watch on the plane is pretty funny. I don't know if it's politically correct, but The 40 Year Old Virgin was a pretty funny movie.

9. What was your first job and your most vivid memory of it?

Biffle: Well, my first job didn't really count because I worked for my parents. Well, I did not. I was self-employed my first job. We lived in the Northwest, so wood was plentiful.

Being the era that it was, me and a buddy of mine cut firewood. Being that we were both sports-oriented people, we both wrestled and we both liked physical activity -- and I was an outdoors kind of person -- so that's what we did.

And we made damned good money. We were cutting and splitting and all that stuff by hand, and we made some serious money. I mean, for the time. We'd make 150 bucks a day apiece after school.

We could cut two, or maybe a little better, cords of wood a day. After we paid for all our stuff, we were each taking 150 bucks and that was 15 years ago. But we both enjoyed it. We liked being outside.

Yeah, we got to go racing some when we were cutting and hacking. We had this old beat-up truck that we used and it was fun. I mean, it was a lot of fun because we weren't at McDonald's or we weren't stocking shelves or whatever -- we were doing stuff we enjoyed doing.

We had a good time. I guess I would have been about 17. So I really miss that, because it was something that we really enjoyed doing.

10. What have you learned about yourself in the last year?

Biffle: I have learned some life lessons. Some of the people that helped me get started in racing, and people -- friends of mine -- that are fairly close to me, have passed away.

And that's kind of got me thinking about things, because you're always in a hurry, you're always going here, going there -- and you don't have time for this or that.

You might say, 'Hey, let's stop by and see ...' And you say, 'No, we really don't have time.' So one thing I've learned to do -- or I'm learning to do -- is to enjoy some of the opportunities that I have.

You know, like, wherever we might be, in the area around a racetrack, to go see things -- or to go to Jackson Hole, Wyo., and go snowmobiling or whatever.

To just take a couple or three or four days and just go do stuff in between races, or go a couple days early and go catch the sights -- maybe check out stuff or just go and visit people.

I've kinda learned to step back and take a look at things [and realize] there's more to life than just being 90 mph all the time. You need to stop and enjoy some stuff and thank the people that have given you good opportunities and to take the opportunities that are in front of you, and to do the best you can with them.