The third race in the 2007 Chase for the Championship will be remembered more for what went wrong off the track rather than what happened on the track itself as NASCAR appeared to give victory to a car that had stopped before taking the chequered flag, a flag that waved some six hours after the green flag originally dropped.
When the dust, or should that read spray, had settled it was the #16 Roush-Fenway Ford of Greg Biffle that was sitting in an increasingly dark victory lane having completed 210 of the originally scheduled 267-lap Lifelock 400 at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway.
Despite being one of the most ultra modern Nextel Cup venues Kansas Speedway does not have floodlights and on this day floodlights could have been the one thing that saved the race from turning into something of a farce with serious championship implications for more than half of the 12 Chase for the Championship contenders.
The chaotic scenes that marred the end of the race seemed so far away when the green flag dropped to signal the start of the race and Matt Kenseth sprinted past promoted ‘polesitter' Scott Riggs. Kenseth simply drove away from the field in the early laps before rain, a recurring theme on this unusually inclement afternoon in the heart of America's Midwest, stopped proceedings after just 15 laps.
Three quarters of an hour later the track was deemed dry enough to restart the event although with another band of heavy thundershowers in the area everybody was keeping one eye on lap 134, the halfway point after which the race would at least be declared official.
However the fact that the racing at the front of the field would be of the highest quality most of the day was largely forgotten amidst a series of incidents and controversies that would befall the majority of the Chase for the Championship contenders.
![Greg Biffle - 3M/Ameriquest Ford [pic credit: Ford media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/297694.jpg)
