Hot/Not: Jeff Gordon’s Daytona qualifying idea is pretty good

Welcome back to the first Hot/Not of this glorious new year. Since we last talked, Kurt Busch found a ride, Brian Vickers didn't and A.J. Allmendinger hit the the lottery. Oh, and we've had some honest-to-goodness rubber to the road at Daytona preseason testing. Let's jump in: HOT: It came to me amid one SPEED's 3,764 interviews about social media during their broadcast of last week's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series test at Daytona. Naturally, Jeff Gordon has been on it "for years". Even if he hasn't, I'll let the future Hall of Famer slide this time after he made my his point during a lunch break media session: NASCAR 'ought to open up qualifying, and only use the current restrictor plate/spoiler package during race scenarios. "I've been saying for years, I wish we could run a different restrictor plate or different spoiler for qualifying just because in single car runs we're able to go so much faster, and it's a lot different obv...