“I signed my contract yesterday, so I’m staying with Roush,” Edwards said Friday afternoon at Richmond International Raceway. “I looked at everything and I talked to everybody, and, for me, the number one thing is looking into the future and saying, ‘Where can I win the most races and have the most success?’ I was honored at the people who I got to speak with, and I just feel like for me personally this is where I want to be for the near future, and we got it done.

“It’s good. I’m real happy about it. It’s a huge relief. It really wasn’t that painful. [Roush Fenway Racing President] Geoff Smith and I get
along really well, and we just pretty much sat down, and he’s really easy for me to deal with.  It took us about a week and a half of going back and forth with just little things, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world for the contract I got.”

Edwards negotiated his contract without any input from an agent, an experience he deems as “neat.” He said that might have been a problem if he’d been dealing with someone he didn’t trust, but that he has a good relationship with Smith and that talks went smoothly.