Hampton, Ga. — Although it was his Roush Racing teammate Carl Edwards who surprised everyone today at Atlanta Motor Speedway with his first NEXTEL Cup win, it was Greg Biffle who held spectators’ attention throughout the majority of the race. Biffle led 151 laps and dueled with Jimmie Johnson for virtually every lap of the race. His third-place finish today marked his second top-five of the season and the first time in his NEXTEL Cup career that he earned three-straight top-10s. The finish also advanced Biffle to second in the standings, 82 points behind first place Johnson.

Also advancing in the points standings with a top-five finish at AMS was another Roush Racing pilot. Mark Martin finished fourth, giving Roush and Ford Racing three of the top-five positions in today’s race. The finish gave Martin his third top-10 finish of the season.

Unfortunately, not all went well for a few Ford drivers. Kurt Busch headed into the race with the points lead. But on the first lap, Busch and several other drivers were caught up in a multi-car wreck that started with Casey Mears. The front-right corner of Busch’s Taurus took a little damage, but he managed to stay on the lead lap and in the front of the pack until lap 158 when a damaged tire took him out of contention for the win. Busch had to take the No. 97 behind the wall for repairs. He returned to the competition on lap 181, 20 laps off of the lead. Busch finished 32nd and as a result, he dropped to fourth in the standings.

Matt Kenseth’s on-track woes continued as well. Kenesth was also caught up in the first-lap melee that damaged his No. 17 Taurus. Kenseth was unable to fully compete with the damaged car and finished 31st.

Ricky Rudd also had a disappointing finish after running in the top 10 for 130 laps. After 210 laps, Rudd suffered brake problems to the No. 21 Taurus and finished 33rd.

GREG BIFFLE - NO. 16 NATIONAL GUARD/SUBWAY TAURUS (FINISHED THIRD)
"I just got beat out of the pits. These cars go aero tight and it's so hard to pass. I just got stuck behind my teammate and the 48. I was better than them, but I was too aero tight. With the aero package you just can't pass."

MARK MARTIN - NO. 6 VIAGRA TAURUS (FINISHED FOURTH)
"I worked pretty hard today and so did all of my Viagra team. We had this Taurus pretty hooked up, but it wasn't good enough to pull it off there at the end. It was a good run and I'm awfully proud of all these guys. Our Roush-Yates Engines, Kraft, Pennzoil and everybody that supports us. I'm ready for some Gatorade."

ARE YOU GOING TO DO A BACKFLIP AS PART OF YOUR SALUTE TOUR?
"I'm too old."

HAPPY WITH THE RUN?
"Yeah, we didn't quite have what we needed to win. We were awfully good on the long runs. We did good to come out where we did with that short a run at the end. Our car was really good on long runs and gave up some on the short ones."

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ROUSH RACING SO STRONG AS A WHOLE BEFORE?
"I don't know. I'm just happy we are."

MATT KENSETH - NO. 17 TREX USG SHEETROCK/DEWALT TAURUS (FINISHED 31ST)
"Somebody wrecked way up front and we just got collected in it. The rest of the day all we could do was make some laps, burn some gas and wear out the tires. There's nothing you can really do."

IT'S JUST THE WAY THINGS HAVE GONE FOR YOU LATELY ISN'T IT?
"Yeah, I don't know how much to elaborate on it but it's been bad so far. A lot of things have been out of our control. Maybe a little bit has been in our control, but most of it has been out of it. We obviously have the equipment to get it done at Roush by what everybody else is doing. We just have to get some runs together and start getting some finishes."

KURT BUSCH - NO. 97 IRWIN/SHARPIE TAURUS (FINISHED 32ND)
"There's nothing you can do. We weren't that aggressive on right fronts, but we kept blowing them. We got involved in that accident on the first lap and then poked a hole in another right-front tire, so it was just a bummer day."

RICKY RUDD - NO. 21 MOTORCRAFT GENUINE PARTS TAURUS (FINISHED 33RD)
"It's pretty frustrating. We've had good race cars every week, we just haven't had a chance to show it. Today was the longest we ran without having some trouble. It was kind of a freak deal with the wheel bearing or something. I don't know. I think we got up to fourth or fifth and Fatback [Michael McSwain, crew chief] was just tweaking the car and tweaking the car. I think we would have had something there at the end."

BIFFLE PRESS CONFERENCE
"I think our Post-It/National Guard car was one of the best race cars - us and the 48. Carl beat us out of the pits there at the end and he had a pretty good car all day too running third. We were just a little bit too tight. We were behind those cars. I mean these cars get so aero tight that it's terrible, but I just got too tight behind those two race cars there at the end and couldn't do nothing. If I would have known coming in the pits I was gonna leave third, then maybe I would have made an adjustment, but you just never know how you're gonna end up on the race track so that's what we got."

CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TODAY?
"It's the worst day of my life. We had a great race car and we were in position to win. We could beat the 48 for sure and Carl got up there and blocked enough air. With two race cars in front of me I couldn't do nothing. I felt like I could beat the 48. I'm pretty confident I could beat the 48, but I couldn't beat Carl. I mean, I didn't plan on him being there, so that's the way it goes."

ANYTHING ABOUT THE LAST PIT STOP THAT PUT YOU BACK IN THIRD?
"It was just the race off pit road. Man, I was so excited. My guys, you watched the broadcast. I don't know if they had us going down pit road on TV, but I'd beat them out of the pits by 20 car lengths on every stop. And then the second-to-last stop the 48 beat us and the last stop the 48 and 99 beat us and that's the way racing is."

WAS YOUR CAR TOO TIGHT BECAUSE IT WAS BEHIND TWO OTHER CARS OR BECAUSE IT WAS LATE IN THE RACE?
"No, I was too tight because I was behind two other cars. These cars are just so poor in traffic. It's unbelievable. It's really tough and hard to explain, but they're hard to race. I mean, they're not hard to race, but they don't make a lot of downforce now. When you're behind other cars they just won't turn at all and with two cars in front of me they were just blocking too much air. I made a run at them early and got tight coming off the corner two or three times and had to have the front wheels turned pretty hard and just burned the right-front off of it after about four laps and I was finished."

HOW IMPRESSIVE WAS CARL'S PERFORMANCE?
"I guess it's pretty good for him. I mean, his pit crew got him off pit road first and he must have freed the car up a bunch on that pit stop and his car was right. He was turning it way sideways coming off the corners, but that's what he needed to do for that short run at the end. He might have brought the tire pressures up, but he wasn't a factor all day. I know that."