While all eyes were on the Daytona 500, Greg Ives was at work. His JR Motorsports team had one car that had been wrecked in the Nationwide Series opener the previous day, and another that needed to be loaded for Phoenix. Occasionally he'd stick his head into the break room, where a television was showing the race. He heard bits over the radio feed piped into the shop. And he was home on his couch for the finish, when his former teammates on Jimmie Johnson's team celebrated their victory in NASCAR's biggest event.
