WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- Another road race, another controversy.

It wasn't quite like Kevin Harvick tailgating Robby Gordon at Sears Point a couple weeks back, but Gordon and Greg Biffle were involved in a minor tapping incident that had significant implications. But preceding that, Biffle was surprised to receive a NASCAR penalty.

"I'm not sure about the penalty NASCAR gave me. During the drivers meeting they told us we can't gain time or position by driving through the inner loop. Ron Fellows drove in (to the corner) pretty deep on the inside of me (on lap 46) and I felt that he wasn't going to make the corner, so I elected to go straight and I came out behind him.

"I led going into the inner loop and came out 20 car lengths behind Fellows, and (NASCAR) still wanted me to give up more time. So I pulled over and let Robby Gordon go by so I wouldn't get a stop-and-go penalty.

Biffle was particularly upset about that incident because he might not have trailed Gordon heading in to lap 52. Gordon claimed that he had hand-signaled to Biffle his intention going to pit on that lap, but Biffle said he didn't see it.

Biffle said he could have avoided tapping and spinning Gordon had he known Gordon was heading to the pits.

The incident brought out a caution. Biffle, then in second, had been confident he could track down and pass leader Ron Fellows. But the yellow was thrown in the middle of a pit cycle in which Biffle had yet to pit.

The impact itself didn't hurt Biffle's car, but the positions lost under yellow did. Biffle dropped to 16th.

"Both of us had to drive back up to the front, using up our brakes, using up our tires, passing lapped cars," said Biffle.

Kevin Harvick was a beneficiary of the yellow. Harvick had already pitted and moved from 12th to 5th as a result of the caution, saving him precious points in the championship race.

Double duty
Harvick again pulled a two-day, two-city trick. Harvick raced in the Pepsi 400 in Daytona on Saturday night before heading back to Watkins Glen for Sunday's Busch race.

"With the circumstances we were in, with a lot of travel, a lot of time in the airplane and in two different states, we pulled it off again," said Harvick, who finished third and lost only 10 points of his lead over Biffle in the points standings.

"(Recovery) is going to take a couple of days. I mean I'm tired right now, but that's why we cancelled all the appearances and all the tests this month. All we are going to do is race, so we're just going to go home and relax and lay around the swimming pool for a couple of days (before going) to Chicago."

Harvick finished 25th in the Pepsi 400.

Yellows make Green blue
Defending BGN champ Jeff Green had a tough day. Green started seventh and at one point led two laps before suffering engine problems.

"It just was not our day," said Green, who finished 31st and remained in fourth in the Busch points standings. "For some reason every time we get ahead, we get behind. We had a tire rub, got black flagged for that, and (while) a lap down my buddy Greg Biffle wouldn't give me a lap back.

"It was something with the motor -- it just blew all to pieces. A road course is hard on them but it's not supposed to be that hard. Something happened to it internally, now we just have to win races for NesQuik -- that's all we have to do the rest of the year. We can't worry about the championship. We just have to win races."