Carl Edwards: Dover 'is going to be insane'

“This race is going to be insane, I mean Loudon, you saw how pressure-packed it was and how many folks were pushing it and making mistakes,” Edwards said. “At Dover, I mean you add about 30 to 40 miles-an-hour, a bunch of banking and double the pressure, it’s going to crazy.

“So we have discussed it, we know what we have to do. We just have to go there and get every spot that we can.”

With 15 wins across NASCAR’s national series at concrete tracks Dover, Bristol Motor Speedway and Nashville Superspeedway, Edwards looks forward to returning to the Monster Mile for the final race in the Challenger Round.

“Dover is a great place,” Edwards said. “People have called me a lot of things, but they actually called me ‘Concrete Carl’ for a while because we won a bunch of races on the concrete tracks including Dover.

“So for me, I like the way it races, I like the sensation of speed and we just have to hope that we hit everything just right.”

In his final season with Roush Fenway Racing, Edwards said the team didn’t want to get ahead of itself by testing Texas, a track that is two rounds away in the Chase, but the team can glean information that will help it this weekend in Delaware.

“It’s kind of a risk because this race is obviously not for a while, and we’ve got other things to focus on, but we do feel like things that we find here at Texas could apply at Dover, Kansas, Charlotte, all the mile-and-a-halfs,” Edwards said.

Sitting six points behind the 12th and final spot in the Contender Round, Biffle said the Texas test is important to improve the organization’s recent performance, and he hopes to survive and advance at the Monster Mile.

“We have not been running the way we need to at Chicago and Loudon,” Biffle said. “Of course that is why we are here at Texas testing, trying to figure out some things with our cars and speed.

“It’s going to be about the same thing for us at Dover, it’s going to be about survival.”

Edwards agreed and expects the same competitive beating and banging that was on display last weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

“…this is it, I mean it’s basically your championship and you know if you make a mistake, or you don’t do something that you should have, you don’t want to be thinking about that for the next seven weeks and the whole offseason so this, this is important for us,” Edwards said.

Tickets are still available for the AAA Texas 500 (3 p.m. ET, Sunday, Nov. 2, ESPN) — part of the Eliminator round of the 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup — by calling the Texas Motor Speedway ticket office at (817) 215-8500 or by visiting www.texasmotorspeedway.com.

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