Green Wins Busch Race at Bristol

Jeff Green outlasted a battered field Saturday to win the Channellock 250 at Bristol, Tenn., a race that ended with Kevin Harvick and Greg Biffle at odds again.

Green survived a record-tying 14 cautions and a final shootout after a red flag to win his 15th career Busch series event. Mike McLaughlin was second and was followed by Scott Wimmer, Jimmy Spencer and Biffle.

The race was stopped with nine laps to go after Biffle and Harvick got into each other in Turn 4. The crash wrecked Harvick’s car.

The two were racing for fifth place and fighting for track position when Biffle bumped the back of Harvick’s left rear, sending his Chevrolet hard into the outside wall, then back across traffic before he came to rest on the front stretch.

As he headed to the care center for a checkup, Harvick let it known he wasn’t happy.

“I’ve always said Greg Biffle was a good guy, but he’s the most impatient thing I’ve ever seen,” said Harvick, who won the Busch series title last season. “He comes and just rams me in the [rear], pretty much puts us in the fence and ruins a brand-new race car.”

Biffle claimed he wasn’t at fault for the accident.

“He was getting really loose,” Biffle said. “I was back on him there, and he just got loose. He had to check out of the throttle. He knows he did, and I bumped him a little bit.”

It’s not the first time the two have had a confrontation and some of their run-ins were highlights of the Busch series last season.

Mark Green, brother of the race winner, was taken to a nearby hospital with a foot injury after his wreck on the final lap of the race.

Ricky Carmichael won his fifth consecutive 250cc EA SPORTS Supercross race, beating Nathan Ramsey in Houston.

“Nathan made me work for this one,” Carmichael said. “I tried to get by cleanly, but I knew I was going to have to mix it up if I wanted to take over the lead. I dove inside of him and it paid off.”

Carmichael, who rides a Honda, leads the season standings with 234 points. David Vuillemin, fourth Saturday, is second with 217.

Matt Walker won his first 125cc Western Regional Supercross race.