Austin Dillon officially unveiled as the driver of the No. 3 in the Sprint Cup Series in 2014

One of the worst kept secrets in NASCAR is finally offical. The No. 3 is back in the Sprint Cup Series.

Austin Dillon will drive a full-season for Richard Childress Racing in the No. 3 car in 2014. The No. 3 replaces the No. 29 car that Kevin Harvick drove since Dale Earnhardt's death at the 2001 Daytona 500. That was the final race that the No. 3 had been used in the Cup Series.

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At the announcement, Childress said that he had discussed with Earnhardt during his career the idea of the No. 3 continuing on after Earnhardt's career was over and said knew that Earnhardt was smiling about Dillon in the car.

Dillon, Childress' grandson, has driven the No. 3 in the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series and has won championships in both. He won the 2011 Truck Series title and the 2013 Nationwide Series title over Sam Hornish Jr. despite not winning a single race all season.

RCR also announced that Dow Chemicals would serve as the sponsor of the No. 3 for 16 races along with Cheerios, the other primary sponsor. Dillon's crew chief will be Gil Martin, who was the crew chief for Harvick last season. Harvick left RCR at the end of the year to move to Stewart-Haas Racing.

Plus the announcement allows us to use this picture again. It's the best ever.

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It?s Your 2013 Exit Interview: No. 8 Joey Logano

Welcome to From the Marbles' 2013 driver reviews. Here, we're going to critique, praise and bloviate about the top 30 drivers in the 2013 NASCAR season.

Did you find that you were well trained for the rarefied air of the Chase levels, Joey?

Congratulations on the promotion to the NASCAR playoffs. I know it may not have seemed like such a big deal because there have been CEO-level expectations since you first started full-time. Hell, they existed when you started part-time. Sweeping floors, we imagine. Though you haven't worked at Hendrick (yet), so maybe it's different in other departments.

That promotion also came a year after a transfer, which we can say fairly comfortably was a catalyst for your success. We're going to also go ahead and view it like one of those trades that benefits both teams. No regrets, right?

You excelled at intermediate tracks this year, which is a good building block given the dominance of 1-2 mile tracks on the Cup schedule. That win at Michigan proved to be handy, and you could have had the win at Fontana too, but we all know what happened there.

It looked like you were going to continue that theme in the Chase too. But no, your car went boom.

Your new surroundings brought some more feistiness, and that feistiness had some bite because of your success. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if your rivalries with an old teammate and the man you effectively replaced in your old department. Spice is good. And it can go well with sliced bread.

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Previous Reviews: No. 10 Kurt Busch, No. 11 Ryan Newman, No. 12 Kasey Kahne, No. 13 Carl Edwards, No. 14, Brad Keselowski, No. 15 Jamie McMurray, No. 16 Martin Truex Jr., No. 17 Paul Menard, No. 18 Aric Almirola, No. 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 20, Jeff Burton, No. 21 Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 22 Marcos Ambrose, No. 23 Denny Hamlin, No. 24 Casey Mears, No. 25 Mark Martin, No. 26 David Gilliland, No. 27 Danica Patrick, No. 28 David Ragan, No. 29 Tony Stewart, No. 30 Dave Blaney

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It?s Your 2013 Exit Interview: No. 13 Carl Edwards

Welcome to From the Marbles' 2013 driver reviews. Here, we're going to critique, praise and bloviate about the top 30 drivers in the 2013 NASCAR season. Chase Carl!

We'll always remember that you made the Chase, Carl. We'll always have that danged Jeff Gordon and Brian France-sized asterisk to remind us.

This year started off well enough, right? A win in the second race of the season is a nice three-Chase-points to have in your pocket, especially because you couldn't buy an incident-free moment at Daytona. Following that, well, you might have had one of the quietest "always in the top three in the points standings" seasons in recent memory.

The consistency that you showed last year -- we appreciate that, by the way. We always knew what to expect -- jumped up a notch and that was the reason you hung near the top of the standings so much. Between that Phoenix race and Bristol in August, your lowest finish was 29th and you finished below 20th just twice.

But Bristol was a harbinger of things to come in the Chase, unfortunately. After losing an engine there, it was forgotten two weeks later with a Richmond win. However, hindsight being 20/20 and all, we were blinded by that shiny thing.

A 35th place finish at Dover dropped you to 11th in the standings and you never got back to being in the top 10 again. You were consistent again, but it wasn't the same type of consistency. Your highest finish the final six races of the year was a 10th and you blew another engine at Texas. That cemented your status as the ugly 13th.

We're interested to see how fruitful the Roush and Penske partnership is next season. No one doubts that you're still a championship level driver. It just feels that you were missing justthatmuch consistent speed. Because we're inclined to think that the majority of the season was more indicative than the final 10 races.

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Previous Reviews: No. 14, Brad Keselowski, No. 15 Jamie McMurray, No. 16 Martin Truex Jr., No. 17 Paul Menard, No. 18 Aric Almirola, No. 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 20, Jeff Burton, No. 21 Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 22 Marcos Ambrose, No. 23 Denny Hamlin, No. 24 Casey Mears, No. 25 Mark Martin, No. 26 David Gilliland, No. 27 Danica Patrick, No. 28 David Ragan, No. 29 Tony Stewart, No. 30 Dave Blaney

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