Editor's note: Chris Rice, crew chief for the No. 99 Rheem Toyota for RAB Racing and driver James Buescher in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, has joined NASCAR.com as a guest writer for the 2014 season. Here is his first-person analysis on the top storylines from Sunday's Daytona 500: The No. 3 car of Austin Dillon sat on the pole and Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Daytona 500 in the 13th year since Dale Earnhardt Sr. passed away. None of that would've been possible without how hard NASCAR worked on the race track, how much money they spent on the Air Titans and how they worked through the storms to allow us to race after the six-hour delay. More...