{"id":21132,"date":"2019-06-03T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21132"},"modified":"2019-06-03T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:56:08","slug":"greg-biffle-makes-nascar-return-in-texas-truck-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/06\/03\/greg-biffle-makes-nascar-return-in-texas-truck-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Biffle makes NASCAR return in Texas truck race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/img_2756.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21131\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/img_2756.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/img_2756-557x418.jpg 557w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/img_2756-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/img_2756-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg Biffle reruns to NASCAR this weekend with a one race deal to drive the No. 51 Toyota Tundra of Kyle Busch Racing at Texas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to have Biffle, a former Gander Outdoors Truck Series champion, in the KBM truck and up at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">\u201cI\u2019ve always said that I would return to NASCAR in the right situation and when Kyle and I started talking about that KBM needed a driver for the June Texas race, I felt like this was the right opportunity to return to the track. I\u2019m thankful for the opportunity to be able to drive such good equipment,\u201d Biffle said in a team release in March. \u201cI started my career in the Truck Series and it was one of the greatest times of my life, so it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun to get back behind the wheel of a truck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Biffle&#8217;s last NASCAR race came in the Cup Series at the 2016 season finale in Homestead<\/span>.<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> He last ran a truck race in 2004<\/span>.<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Biffle reruns to NASCAR this weekend with a one race deal to drive the No. 51 Toyota Tundra of Kyle Busch Racing at Texas Motor Speedway. The plan to have Biffle, a former Gander Outdoors Truck Series champion, in the KBM truck and up at the end of March. \u201cI\u2019ve always said that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,788],"tags":[244,708,617],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-21132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-truck-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-greg-biffle","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-texas-motor-speedway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21132"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}