Editor's note: NASCAR driver Greg Biffle will document his journey through the Chase for the Sprint Cup in an exclusive online diary for USA TODAY:

We may not have gained as many points on Sunday at Texas as I would have liked, but it's a start and with two races remaining anything can still happen.

We're off to Phoenix this week and I absolutely love that race track. The very first time I ever saw it was 1989 ? a long time ago ? and we were running a Southwest Tour race called the Copper World Classic. Ever since then, I've been fond of that place. It's also kind of close to home for me. That was one of the closest tracks and then I raced at Tucson Raceway Park a lot, so I've always enjoyed going back to the Phoenix area. I love that area of the country.

It's a challenging place because the two turns are completely different, so it's a big challenge to brake hard into one, make a turn, and get back on the gas as soon as you can. And then three and four is a real long entry, a real long sweeping corner, so it's unique in how different it is from end to end. That's what makes that place so much fun is how different it is from end to end, and you drive the car a little bit looser there than you would at most places, and you kind of play with the throttle a lot. That's what I like about that place.

Another thing I like about Phoenix is the track hasn't changed much other than they have done some paving patches. They put the tunnel in and they paved a piece that was old coming off of four, so that's made it unique ? sort of like Pocono, where you know you can use that extra grip on that spot on the track, so that's kind of made it fun. But, overall, the surface has stayed the same over the year. Obviously, it's gotten older and older, which means less grip over the period of time, so that makes it definitely challenging as well.

Phoenix falls into the same category as Atlanta where they shouldn't do anything to the track until they absolutely have to. The problem with Atlanta is there's just no way we'll be able to run around Atlanta on a repave without a restrictor plate. We will go just entirely too fast at Atlanta because of the way it's shaped and the way the entry into one is and how long and wide open the place is. You would just be running 220 miles an hour probably there and that would just ruin the racing, so to speak. We understand that at some point you have to bite the bullet and say, 'We have to pave it.' But until then, leave them alone.

We've only got two races left, but I think you can say that regardless of how it ends, we've had a successful season. I think a successful season is making the Chase because you've got to make the Chase in today's day and age. You've got to make the playoffs in order to be successful and be in the spotlight every week for your sponsor, and your team, and your organization, and all the guys that work at the shop and come to the track, so making the Chase is really, really important in our sport today.

Secondly, there's almost a second set of goals. After making the Chase, it's win some races and be competitive and challenge for the championship. We've been able to do that. Obviously, we've come up a little bit short at a couple of mile-and-a-halfs that we feel is our strong suit, so that's a little frustrating.

In our eyes we had a decent run at Martinsville. We finished 12th, and with that not being my best race track, that was not too bad of a finish. But to finish 10th at Atlanta and seventh at Charlotte, those two races really weren't up-to-par for the 16 team.

I think to wrap it up, it would be easy for me to say a successful season would be, 'Just finish in the top five in points,' because it looks like we're headed down that track, but obviously we would be disappointed not to win the title. Right now, we still have an opportunity, but it's getting slimmer and slimmer.

We also have an opportunity to win the manufacturers' championship for Ford and we're going to do all we can to make that happen. We know if we win at Phoenix and Homestead, then Ford will win that title so that's our mindset. Ford has been great to me throughout my career and it would certainly make me happy to be the driver to clinch that championship for them.

If you get the chance, go to fordracing.com and check out my latest blog in the "I'm Driving One" program. It's been a lot of fun to drive the new Ford products and be able to share my thoughts, so I encourage all of you great race fans to go out there and just 'Drive one.'