Dale Earnhardt Jr. saw the showgirls and the Victory Lane celebration in the middle of the Neon Garage area, and thought about how much fun it must be to win at Las Vegas. "We took a gamble that wasn't supposed to make it," Earnhardt said, looking back at his runner-up finish a week ago. And yet, with a Daytona 500 race victory in his hip pocket and a virtually guaranteed berth in the revamped Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, it seems pretty clear -- despite the hurt, he'd do it all over again. Earnhardt's fuel wager a week ago at Las Vegas, where he ran dry on the backstretch of the final lap and saw Brad Keselowski storm past to win, may have been just the first such gamble by drivers who have punched their tickets to the playoff. More...