Drivers show support for Cup car

Kevin Harvick, who runs second in the standings but has yet to win a race, believes it is too early to call for changes as Johnson has said. He says the intermediate tracks such as Texas will always be tougher to drive and to find the right balance with the car.

"I think after watching Michael McDowell flip several times and drive straight in the wall, the mission was accomplished as far what everybody wanted to accomplish from that car," Harvick said.

"As you look back and you go to those types of race tracks, the high-banked 1.5-mile race tracks have been the toughest on the COT car and it's been that way with the old car as well, those types of tracks are a little less conducive to the racing it seems for whatever reason.

"But being the first time that we went to Texas I don't think anybody wants to throw up a red flag and say we need to change everything because we had a tough race at Texas."

Jeff Gordon, who struggled all weekend at Texas, said he is following Carl Edwards' advice of concentrating on driving and learning how to get the most out of the car. Edwards said after his win last week that drivers should stop complaining to the media about the car's handling.

"I am going to follow Carl Edwards' advice, shut up and drive," Gordon said. "Obviously he is not having those issues with his car, so we have to go to work on ours. I am really trying not to focus on that anymore, it is what it is, we are stuck with it whether we like it or we don't like it."

Three-time winner this season Carl Edwards obviously wants the new Cup car to stay the way it is, and said teams struggling with it are missing on something that his team has probably figured out.

"I'm well aware that it takes everything being perfect in these cars to go fast," Edwards said. "And we've got to stay on top of that because some of the guys that are struggling, it's not because of the way they're driving the cars, it's because it's something they haven't got figured out, and that could happen to us just as well."

His Roush Fenway teammate Greg Biffle said drivers should concentrate on simply doing their best behind the wheel and working with crew chiefs to work out the best set-up.

"I don't think you're going to fix this car," Biffle said. "One, is how the windshield is stood up. And the size of it. It's what NASCAR wanted. This is what NASCAR wanted. NASCAR built this car, and it's our job to race it, race it the best we can, get it to handle the best we can and do what we can with it.

"That's out job, so that's what we're going to focus on and we're going to work on, and we'll just let nature take its course."