Jimmie Johnson's phone started blowing up Sunday while he was sitting in his motorhome - nowhere near Victory Lane. Johnson was hailed as the Daytona 500 champion all over the place Sunday - he was trending on Twitter and even had friends congratulating him via text message - despite the race being in a rain delay. Fox Sports responded by showing a replay of last year's season opener, the one in which Johnson won his second 500 and Danica Patrick made history by becoming the first woman to lead laps in ''The Great American Race.'' Fox ran an intermittent crawl across the bottom of the screen, saying the 2013 race was being shown while Sunday's race was being delayed because of rain. ''I hear I won the (hash)Daytona500?'' Johnson posted on Twitter.
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