Biffle remains optimistic despite COT struggles (cont'd)

"You're more nervous being the guy," Biffle said. "In 2005, every time I won I was like, this is awesome, but am I going to be able to win again? Is it going to be 20 races? A year? I'm always [concerned] when the luck is going to run out. And in 2005, it did 16 races in. We got off our game just a little bit.

"Ask Jeff Gordon how he was running in 2005. Heck, I was lapping him every race. He didn't make the Chase, wasn't even close. Look at him now. He knows that can change tomorrow, but that's why we love it so much."

Biffle believes in the Roush Fenway organization. He is involved in contract talks but we did not discuss that. He believes the hard work, long meetings and test sessions will pay off in the summer months. And you know what comes after the summer months, don't you? That's right, the Chase months. But to win it, you've got to be in it.

"By the time the Chase comes around, we're going to be bumping heads with those guys," explained Biffle. "Our plan is to get in, and we feel like we can be competitive enough to get in. We lost five spots at the end of the race at Darlington, we could have been top-five or at least top-ten at Richmond but the 66 took us out. If those things don't happen, we're probably 13th. Not stellar. But challenging."

And optimistic.

Biffle knows the schedule. He's seen the calendar. And he has one date circled on it, October 15th, the day he is getting married to his longtime girlfriend, Nicole Lunders.

Are you working on that?

"Nope."

Nothing?

"Not a thing."

Really?

"Really. I'm excited about it. We're getting married at a place in South Carolina we really like. But she is in charge of everything. I'm just going to show up on the 15th, come home on the 18th, and go to Martinsville on the 19th," Biffle said.

And you know what will be waiting for him there? A Car of Tomorrow race. Probably not the kind of honeymoon he was hoping for.