November 20 - After a heated year-long battle between reigning G2 Auto Racing Champion Griffin Motorsports and FBG Racing, G2 Auto Racing has a new Champion. With the help of a stellar year by Team Captain Tony Stewart, FBG Racing managed to hold on to a marginal points lead during the last few races of the season to become the 2005 G2 Auto Racing NASCAR Cup Series Champion. "I was on the edge of my seat until the final lap," says FBG Racing founder and CEO Frank Gordon. "Every week since the [NASCAR] Chase began, I watched Griffin Motorsports cut into an already meager points lead. I think it was as low as 10 or 11 points at one time, which can dissolve in a second in this sport. But Tony [Stewart] took it easy and Jeff [Gordon] stepped it up a notch, and in the end we came out on top. I'm really proud of my guys and can't wait until next season."

It was a season of ups and downs for both G2 Teams. Champion Griffin Motorsports was coming off of an extremely strong season, with Team Captain Dale Earnhardt, Jr. winning 6 races and driver Jimmie Johnson winning a record 8. In addition, 2004 NASCAR Champion Kurt Busch was added to the stable of talent. FBG Racing brought 4-time NASCAR Champion Jeff Gordon on board, who also came off a strong season with 6 wins. 2004 NASCAR ROTY Kasey Kahne and top-10 expert Jamie McMurray were picked up as well. After the first quarter of the season, however, it was sure to an unpredictable year. Due to internal structuring, Earnhardt's team seemed to have setback after setback, while FBG's Jeff Gordon recorded a career record number of DNF's. Changes in the Dodge areo-package brought a long learning curve for Dodge drivers Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne and Jamie McMurray, and Jimmie Johnson started and ended the season strong, but couldn't quite seem to get a rhythm going during the middle of the year. Both team owners had to adapt to a new style of racing new rules packages set down by both NASCAR and G2.

In the roughly two-month-long break before the 2006 season, team owners will keep a diligent eye on all active drivers who, with the exception of Team Captains Earnhardt and Stewart, become free agents again, as well as some of the NASCAR drivers who came into their own during the 2005 season and upcoming talent from the Busch Series. The G2 Auto Racing NASCAR Cup Series will begin again next February with the Budweiser Shootout
 

November 20 - With five wins, a record 25 top tens and an average finish of 9.9 this season, FBG Racing Captain Tony Stewart won his second NASCAR Championship. FBG Racing founder and CEO Frank Gordon was quoted as saying "Tony has always been the foundation of this team, and was the momentum for us this year in the G2 standings. It's only fitting for him to be able to take home a Nextel Cup to set next to his Winston Cup." Stewart was lauded as the best driver of his generation by his peers, and FBG's Gordon states that he just needs to take some time off and relax, although he's sure all Tony will do is race between now and Daytona. 

November 20 - Griffin Motorsports' Greg Biffle won a season-high sixth race on Sunday when he inched ahead of Mark Martin after a nose-to-nose battle during the closing laps of the Ford 400 in Homestead, FL. With the G2 Auto Racing Championship on the line, Biffle did what would help his team most...he took the checkered. 

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS... After 35 races, no one would guess that the final race would settle 2 Championships. It seems fitting that going into the Homestead Miami Speedway, both FBG Racing and its captain Tony Stewart are being chased closely by Griffin Motorsports and its most consistent driver, Jimmie Johnson. In the Owners Championship, FBG leads by 14 points and in the Driver Championship, Stewart is ahead by 52. In both cases, Lincoln Griffin realizes that something is going to need to happen for them to wind up on top, "when you look at the way we have run over the past month, the team overall has been very consistent. Yet even with that consistency, we have only been able to chip away a little of the lead. That just shows how consistent FBG has been, especially Tony. He has had a hell of a good year. It is going to take something out of the ordinary for us to win this thing". The 2005 season comes to an end Sunday in Miami. 

Busch Gone, Harvick Back In Griffin Motorsports announced that Kurt Busch was being released from his G2 Auto Racing contract for the remaining two races in the 2005 season. Busch, who was uncooperative during a traffic stop in Arizona and cited for reckless driving, will be replaced on the active driver list by Griffin Motorsports favorite Kevin Harvick. Harvick who had previously been a team stalwart, was bumped from the starting rotation in favor of Greg Biffle. Owner Lincoln Griffin stated, "it was a move that was very hard to do because I am such a fan of Kevin. The teams performance needed a boost, and that was the move that I decided to go with. I am thrilled to have him back though, and look forward to our future endeavours".