Q&A: Greg Biffle

Q: Any concern that the Chevrolets appear to be a little ahead of you guys in the Car of Tomorrow so far?

Biffle: Well, to be honest with you, Chevrolet has been ahead of us for probably the last year, or last year and a half, since 2005.

Three and four of the Chevys were a little bit ahead of us. We managed to win championships in those years as a manufacturer. But really competitive-wise they were better than us. 2005 we were better as a group. We were probably the best in 2005 as a manufacturer. And then in '06 and '07, Chevrolet is back on top, where they've been most of the time. And it's not really a surprise to us to see them running as well as they are. They've got a bunch of great teams, [Joe] Gibbs, [Rick] Hendrick, [Richard] Childress, just off the top, are very, very strong race teams.

There's only technically one of us, if you will. We have [Jack] Roush and [Robert] Yates over in the Ford camp, so if you were to say we had three Roush conglomerates all running Fords, then the tables might be balanced a little different. But they've got three strong, strong teams, three strong teams of good drivers driving Chevys, and that's something we know we have to battle.

They've been a little bit better at it, and let's face it, you take Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and all those guys, and feeding a little bit of information back to Chevrolet, it'll trickle around to those teams a little bit faster. Within our organization, all we have is us. We have our five teams to gather that information and use it within ourselves. You know, it's tough to beat the odds, and the odds are there's more Chevrolet teams and better cars.

Q: How do you think the Car of Tomorrow is going?

Biffle: I think it's going to go really well. We've learned a lot about the car in the last two races. Definitely there are some things that we've picked up on, some scenarios that we've learned a little bit about and have made changes to.

I think the car is going fairly decent right now. This is going to be a big deal here to see how it turns. You know, we knew about the car a few years ago, and what we've learned last year and this year is the car doesn't turn as well as the old car. The car doesn't have the front downforce and isn't all sloped and kicked out like the regular car is.

It's a little bit harder to get it to turn around the corner, and because of that, the higher speeds here, this is going to be a place where we're going to have to work on it and working toward getting that front grip to get the car to go around the corner. (Continued)