Success is back at Roush, and the owner is loving it

Remember when Jack Roush complained that he was going to need a baseball bat to fend off the charge Toyota was mounting in Sprint Cup Series racing?

Remember when Roush was all up in arms over a part supposedly swiped and presumably copied by Michael Waltrip Racing?

Remember when Roush was upset with NASCAR in general for, he said, misleading him on testing rules and regulations heading into the "new car" era? And at Hendrick Motorsports in particular for bending said rules and regulations every which way to pave a repeated path to Victory Lane en route to Jimmie Johnson's second consecutive championship in 2007?

Well, Captain Jack is all smiles these days -- and with good reason. Greg Biffle's victory in last Sunday's Camping World RV 400 at Dover was the second in a row for Biffle's No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford.

Furthermore, Biffle finished just ahead of Roush Fenway teammates Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards, giving Roush his first 1-2-3 finish since the final race of the 2005 season when his cars swept the top four spots in the season finale at Homestead. Of course, that did little to take the sting off losing that 2005 points championship to Tony Stewart and Joe Gibbs Racing -- as Biffle, despite a series-high six wins that season, finished second in the final standings, a mere 35 points behind Stewart.

Roush joked later that Sunday's duel down the stretch between the top-three cars in his swollen five-car stable was at times difficult for him to watch. In what comes as a surprise to absolutely no one, he actually feared the worst.

"It's just hard not to lose your mind when you've got as many opportunities as there are with the multiple cars to be involved in something that's just going to break your heart," he told the media after the race. "You're just holding your breath, breathing too fast -- both at the same time -- as you watch it unfold."

Victor's spoils

In the end, Roush had nothing to fear but victory itself.

In winning for the second week in a row, Biffle made history. He is the first driver to win the first two races in the Chase -- and in doing so, he has vaulted himself from the back of the playoff field to the front.

Heading into this Sunday's race at Kansas, where Biffle is the defending champion, The Biff is only 10 points off the first-place pace being set by Edwards, his Roush Fenway teammate. These guys are looking more and more like their Red Sox brethren every day, even if Edwards, by his own admission, doesn't know the difference between a curveball and a cut fastball. (Continued)