Late Sunday night, after a rain-delayed marathon of a Daytona 500 had finally come to an end, Austin Dillon was standing next to his car on pit road answering questions about his ninth-place finish when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rookie abruptly stopped speaking in mid-sentence. He turned and looked at the sight of Rick Hendrick sitting on the window ledge of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s race car, the two of them zipping down the frontstretch toward Victory Lane. "Very cool for Dale Jr." Dillon said. It was one thing for the No. 3 car to return to NASCAR's top level for the first time in 13 seasons, driven by the grandson of Dale Earnhardt's former car owner. More...