No surprises

Jeff Gordon on the outside of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup cutoff line entering the final regular-season race at Richmond?

Joey Logano relatively comfortable in eighth place with a victory as a safety net?

Greg Biffle, another driver on the Chase bubble, said the vagaries of the Chase battle haven’t surprised him.

“Nobody’s made it in that’s a surprise to me, because there are so many good drivers,” said Biffle, who is ninth in the Cup standings, 16 points ahead of Jeff Gordon in 11th.

“Kasey Kahne (who has clinched at least a wild card spot), you can’t say that he’s a surprise. You can’t say that Martin Truex is a surprise.

“I could list them all. None of them are surprises to me. Is it a surprise that those other guys are out? Maybe. But somebody has to be, you know. … A lot has to come down to luck, what happened on the race track and how your season went so far.”