Changes may be coming to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition package next season, according to NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France.

During a Sunday interview on Fox Sports 1, France said his office is always looking for ways to improve competition and keep teams guessing. The comments were made a month after NASCAR vice president Steve O’Donnell suggested that the rule book may stay largely unchanged due to the lack of testing for possible 2016 options.

But France says his office will not become stagnant just because they are satisfied with the on-track product.

"Well, we’re not done yet," France said. "That’s the No.1 thing. I realize it’s easy to say, 'Well, stay where you are. Things are pretty good.' But our job is to make things better and have closer, tighter racing, where some teams that don’t have the budget of the size of some of the bigger teams have a better shot to win and compete. That’s what we’re trying to do.

"Are we happy? We’re never happy because whatever package that we come with, the drivers and teams are trying to take that package and gain an advantage on that. That’s what they do. They’re great at it. But my sense of it is, we’ll be coming with some things that just keep marching toward our goal of tighter, closer, lower-cost racing, and that’s what our fans want."

France also addressed the driver council that met with NASCAR officials for the first time last weekend at Dover International Speedway. While France wasn’t at the meeting, he said he welcomes additional dialogue between the league and its various participants.

"The first thing is, we’ve been doing a lot of that in the last four or five years anyway," France said. "We’ve got an OEM council, we meet with the car manufacturers, we have track meetings that we didn’t have before, we have owner meetings that we didn’t have before.

"So, needless to say, the most important stakeholder in our sport, besides our fans, are our drivers. That's a good thing for us to hear in a more formal setting some of the things that are on their mind. It was a good meeting. It was a good discussion."

While the communication is a net benefit for NASCAR and the teams, France says the biggest challenge in these meetings will be how much the drivers disagree with each other. Because while a specific change may benefit one team or driver, those same changes may drastically disadvantage the other.

"They just can’t agree," France added. "They can’t agree because they're competing with one another, and so what feels good to one driver in terms of the style of racing doesn’t feel as good to another.

"More downforce, less downforce, more grip, less grip. All those things they may agree while they’re sort of talking quietly, but once they get with us, it's 'Whoa, don’t do that. Do this. Do that.’ We make the decision on what’s good for everybody, but we need their input. That's what the council and the better collaboration is about because whatever decision we make, we can’t get enough good information."

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