Biffle works hard for his second top-five in a row (cont'd)

"The thing is it's a delicate situation to talk about," Biffle said. "You can't say, 'Get out of my way, you can't race.' Although that's what Tony Stewart a lot of times does -- he doesn't put up with guys not getting out of his way when he's got a faster racecar, and he'll let you know it."

Biffle said a large problem is the continued battle teams face while trying to figure out a better way of navigating traffic in the new car.

"This car is so difficult, when you get 10 or 15 cars away from a guy it just stops, you can't get any closer," Biffle said. "It's not like you can get up, put some air on his bumper and move him out of the way. Carl and I spent 10 laps, eight laps behind one of our teammate cars and lost a tremendous amount of track position. That's where he lost all of his track position to the 18 car, I saw it happen. I was on Carl's bumper, and when I got by him, Carl was almost a straightaway ahead of me -- almost a straightaway.

"You just can't get to the guy's bumper, or I would have jacked his tires off the ground and sent him into the fence backwards. I would have done it in a second, but I just couldn't get there."

From that point, Biffle said, any shot at catching Edwards for second place was an afterthought.

Busch went through the same problem, only it was when he was trailing Biffle.

"He would pull away because he had fresh air," Busch said. "Myself, I couldn't really hold onto it. Once you get up into their wake, the car doesn't feel as secure, doesn't feel as comfortable without having the air going over it, the little amount of air that does go over it. So you know, it's kind of frustrating when you can't gain on somebody."

The way Busch did gain on Biffle was from a fast pit stop that put him in front of the 99 and 16 cars.

It was a frustrating moment for Biffle despite the top-five finish, his fifth of the season. The strong run, combined with an abundance of early-race attrition that involved four drivers inside the top 12 in points, moved Biffle up six spots in the Sprint Cup standings. He's now in fifth, 392 points behind leader Busch.

"Our team has been building really, really fast racecars," Biffle said. "We had a really, really fast car at Darlington. Then we came at Charlotte and had two really good cars. Then we came here and sat on the pole and had a great car the whole race.

"I really feel like we've sort of turned the corner and we're super competitive. Now we just need to get all the gremlins out of there that keep us from finishing good every week. It was pretty tough. It was a long day for us. We finished third and it's what we needed to do for points."