Kyle Busch no longer thinks the COT 'sucks'

Kyle Busch has changed his view on NASCAR’s Car Of Tomorrow it seems.

Busch, one driver known for speaking his mind, made no secret of his distaste for the car even after he scored the first victory with it when the car made its debut at Bristol in March 2007.

“I said that I wanted to go out and win this race so I could tell everybody how terrible this thing is to drive,” Busch said at the time. “I can’t stand to drive them. They suck.”

But now over two years and 11 victories later, Busch’s hard line on the COT may have softened a bit.

"It's not bad, it's not what I would have designed, it's not what I would want to race but it's what we got,” Busch said Wednesday. “We make the most of the effort and try and fix it and try to make it better. I think there are some things that NASCAR can do to help with it.”

Busch went on to list a slew of changes he’d like to make.

“Whether that is fixing some aerodynamics, take some weight out of the right of the car to make it a little bit lighter,” Busch said. You know all the safety advances with the car are great but ultimately it comes down to competition. I feel like that's how fans feel and have seen it in what the grandstands look like. If they get bored and they don't come back to the racetrack you have a problem. It's not like all of us are riding around not doing anything.”

“I think there are some aerodynamic things we can work on and change with the front end of the cars,’ he added. “The wing ok, I mean it doesn't bother me. They had good intentions with it. What they wanted instead of a spoiler was that the air would hit the spoiler and go up which doesn't allow any of the air on the car to go behind it. Which now with the wing the air has to go under it in order for a wing to work. I mean its airplane technology. They had good intentions with air going under the car to get on the nose of the car behind. But the noses of the cars are so dead because actually when you travel more you affectively lose down force. So it's a catch 22. How much do you want to get the nose down and sealed and when you don't get it sealed it feels worse.

So you don't know where to go that's why a lot of people have been confused with these things so wind tunnel tells you one thing but the drivers on the race track tell you another and when you're in traffic that tells you another thing. So I think less right side weight, you can just get some weight out of the cars, so that Goodyear has an easier times building tires. That's not a blow to Goodyear; it's just these cars are tough to work on for anybody. And fix the noses a little bit to add some character. A little more manufactured differences and a little more aerodynamics.”

According to Busch, his stance two years ago when he won that first race with the COT had a lot to do with the confusion during the transition from the old racecars to the new ones.

“With everybody now fully concentrating on this car to make it better, not like two years ago when we were back and forth between the two cars, man that was the worst thing ever,” Busch said. “We would drive the old car and be like man this is so great it drives like a Cadillac and we would get in that new thing and it would drive like an 18 wheeler going down the highway. It was hard to correlate between the two and now that we are in one which most of the Cup drivers are driving that one.”

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