Greg Ives, the crew chief for Dale Earnhardt Jr., won his first race in Sprint Cup, but he nearly missed the race. On Saturday, his eight-year-old daughter Payton broke her arm in a playground accident, requiring surgery. Earnhardt offered to fly Ives back to Charlotte to be with his daughter, but Payton talked her father into remaining at Talladega. "I wanted to give him that obligation to choose," Earnhardt said. "She's tough as nails and she told him not to come home. She was mad at him for the call he (made) in Richmond." Earnhardt related encountering a downcast Ives after that race, only to learn that "he's worried about what she's going to tell him when he got home. It's good she keeps him honest."(NASCAR Wire Service)
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