By: Toby Christie – Follow on Twitter @Tobalical

Greg Biffle hasn’t won in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series since Kansas in the fall of 2010 (49 races ago), but Friday Biffle mentioned that he likes his chances at finding victory lane in the coming weeks.

“Any time is a good time to win a race. These are some good opportunities for us in Texas and Kansas which are two great tracks for us,” Biffle said during his weekly press conference. “We ran, in our standards, fairly well at Martinsville being top-10 most of the day. Unfortunately there at the end with the 10 car and the way the cautions fell and the lucky dog we ended up 13th. This is a race track and we have a great lineup all the way through Darlington and Dover, all these race tracks, that we think we can win at. It is important for us to win. We are trying and we were off a little bit at Vegas. Hopefully we will be on the money here.”

Biffle has come on like gang-busters since the 2012 season began, and it caught most of us by surprise after his lackluster 2011 effort. Through six races in 2012 he has an average finish of 6.8 — his average finish in 2011? 16.8. Matt Puccia has become an unsung hero at crew chief, and he is seemingly the only change on the No. 16 team since last season. Biffle has no worries just yet of reaching victory lane, but how much longer can he go before he starts to get nervous about not finding victory lane?

“Considering we are only six in this year and I am not too nervous about it yet. We get halfway through the season and we haven’t won, then I will be.”

For “The Biff” it appears that with the way things are going he is a lock to be in The Chase again after last year’s absence. However just simply making the Chase isn’t enough for Biffle or any NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver. The reason they race is to take home a championship. Biffle came oh-so-close in 2005 and 2008 when he finished second and third in the standings, if he can find a way to capture the Sprint Cup he will be the first driver to ever win a championship in all three of NASCAR’s National Series (Sprint Cup, Nationwide, Camping World Trucks). What would a championship mean to Biffle?

“I sit and think about it every once in awhile. I think about what it would mean to win one for me personally and then what we have to do to win one. It gives me great confidence when we go to Martinsville, a place that is kind of a little bit of a nemesis for us as a company and me as a driver and we ran respectable there. That is one race out of the 10 Chase races, you have to be good at all 10 to win the title, and we can be pretty competitive at like eight of nine of them and that has always been a little bit of an Achilles heel for me.

“The last few trips to Martinsville have been pretty good for us. That is the key in me winning a championship. I need to run good there and get through Talladega, which everybody wants to do that. I have thought about it and it would be something special for me to be able to do that and I think that we have the team that can do it, whether this year is the year we will just have to wait and see.”

Is their a Sprint Cup Series championship in the cards for Biffle in 2012? Only time will tell for sure, but for now he is focused on the task at hand — winning the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, a track he won at back in that nearly magical 2005 season.

– Toby Christie is the lead Motorsports writer for Sicknissified.com, and he can be reached via twitter or email. Tweet him @Tobalical or email him at tobalical@sicknissified.com. You can also find his work at TheFinalLap.com this weekend.