DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR is discussing with drivers and team owners Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway the possibility of changing its "one-shot" green-white-checkered rule to allow a variable number of attempts at finishing Sprint Cup races under green.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said a decision could be made to allow the procedure to be in place for Thursday's Gatorade Duel 150 qualifying races. He wasn't sure if it would also be mandated for the Nationwide and Camping World Truck series, which also open their seasons this weekend.

"Nothing's been done yet, but we've been kicking around the idea of having more than one attempt at a green-white-checkered prior to the white flag coming out," Poston said Wednesday afternoon. "If we can find a way to have more green-flag finishes I think that's a good thing for the drivers and for the fans.

"Obviously we've done this before in other series and the [control] tower will be in control to make sure that it doesn't get out of hand. But we think that giving the drivers more than one attempt at the green-white-checker is a good thing."

Poston said it was too early to know if a set number of attempts would be mandated, but his opinion was it would be a variable number based on the race directors' discretion.

"[The number of attempts] will likely be in the judgment of the tower, in terms of what's happening and what the circumstances are," Poston said. "We have it currently in other series that it's multiple attempts so I doubt that it would have to be necessary to nail down that it would be X number for any one race because that may not be the logical conclusion, depending on what's happening."

Poston cited Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout at Daytona, in which an accident occurred in Turns 3 and 4 on the first lap of a green-white-checkered finish as an incentive for the possible change. Race winner Kevin Harvick had to complete the last lap-and-a-quarter under a caution before taking the checkered flag.

ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett, the 1999 Cup champion and a three-time Daytona 500 winner, said enabling more than one attempt at a green-white-checker might be a plus.

"As long as we don't get out of hand with it," Jarrett said. "Obviously these guys know that it would be never-ending until the end so we might not have enough cars to go on the last one [laughing].

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"But I think that tweaking it a little bit we'd come to that point in time, to give the fans what they want and that's a race that finishes under green-flag conditions."

Obviously, several drivers were aware of the tack NASCAR was taking on Wednesday morning. At least two of them frowned on the change.

"I'm hearing they're talking about that," three-time Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon said. "Unfortunately, my schedule didn't allow me to be at the safety meeting this morning, otherwise I'd have voiced my opinion on that and said, 'One green-white-checkered and one green-checkered. ...'

"They can do 10 green-white-checkereds and we're still not going to make it to the checkered. It just needs to be a one-lap, take the green and finish, after we attempt a green-white-checkered. I just think that after you do one attempt at a green-white-checkered and you have a caution, there's no reason to do another one and another one and another one."

Mark Martin, who was part of a wild scramble coming to the finish of the 2007 Daytona 500 in which he and race winner Kevin Harvick finished neck-and-neck ahead of multi-car crash, echoed Gordon's sentiments.

"At this level, I feel like we have to try to hold on to some sort of integrity," Martin said. "And for me, [late-race restarts] can get a little bit like a circus."

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