Trevor Bayne

Trevor Bayne
Bayne at the 2015 Toyota/Save Mart 350
Born	(1991-02-19) February 19, 1991 Knoxville, Tennessee
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Achievements	2011 Daytona 500 winner (youngest ever, 20 years & 1 day)
NASCAR Cup Series career
166 races run over 8 years
Car no., team	No. 6 (Roush Fenway Racing)
2017 position	22nd
Best finish	22nd (2016, 2017)
First race	2010 AAA Texas 500 (Texas)
Last race	2017 Ford EcoBoost 400 (Homestead)
First win	2011 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 16 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
152 races run over 7 years
2016 position	102nd
Best finish	6th (2013, 2014)
First race	2009 Scotts Turf Builder 300 (Bristol)
Last race	2016 Zippo 200 at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
First win	2011 O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge (Texas)
Last win	2013 DuPont Pioneer 250 (Iowa)
Wins Top tens Poles 2 73 7
Statistics current as of November 19, 2017.

Trevor Bayne (born February 19, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 6 Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing.

Bayne began his racing career racing go-karts at the age of five. After eight years, he moved to Allison Legacy Series, where he became the youngest top rookie. Two years later, he moved to the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Southern Division. In 2008, he signed a contract with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. to race in the NASCAR Camping World East Series, where he recorded one win, six top-fives, and seven top-10 finishes. One year later, he recorded Sunoco Rookie of the Race honors after participating in the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway. Also in 2009, he began racing in the Nationwide Series for Michael Waltrip Racing. After about two years with the team, he moved to Roush Fenway Racing, at the late end of the season, and began racing in the Sprint Cup Series for Wood Brothers Racing. For that team, he won the 2011 Daytona 500, becoming the youngest driver to ever win the race at the age of 20 years and 1 day.

Racing career

Beginnings

Bayne was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in February 1991. He began racing go-karts at the age of five. He continued to race the go-karts for eight years, during which he recorded three World Championships with more than 300 feature wins and 18 total State and Track Championships.

In 2004, Bayne moved to the Allison Legacy Race Series, where he became the youngest top rookie. In 2005, he became the series' National Champion. During the two years he raced in the series, he won 14 races, earned 19 pole positions and recorded 30 top-five finishes in only 41 starts. When Bayne was 15 years old, he moved to the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Southern Division, in which he received the highest rookie honors.

In 2008, Dale Earnhardt, Inc. hired him under their driver development program. During the same year, he began racing in the NASCAR Camping World East Series, and won his first race at Thompson International Speedway. Also in that season, Bayne recorded six top-five and seven top-10 finishes and finished fourth in point standings. One year later, he participated in the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway, where he received Sunoco Rookie of the Race honors.

Xfinity Series

2010 Xfinity car

2009–2010: Entry into the Xfinity Series

After DEI merged into Chip Ganassi Racing's shop following 2008, Bayne was inherited as a development driver by Ganassi. However, as Ganassi had shut down its Nationwide Series program after 2008, Bayne made his first Xfinity Series start in 2009 at Bristol Motor Speedway driving a Ganassi car carrying the No. 52 of Means Racing. Bayne finished in the 23rd position. He then signed a contract with Michael Waltrip Racing for a limited race schedule. In his first start for the team in the Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway, he qualified 2nd and finished 28th. He got the pole position at the Kroger 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park and finished 7th at that race and the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond.

During the 2010 season, Bayne drove the No. 99 Out Pet Care Toyota Camry for Diamond-Waltrip Racing in 28 races before moving to Roush Fenway Racing. While with Michael Waltrip Racing in 2010, he recorded three pole positions, five top-fives and nine top-ten finishes. After announcing his departure from MWR after 2010, he was released and replaced with the Truex brothers Ryan Truex and Martin Truex, Jr..

2010–2014: Roush Fenway Racing

Racing for Roush Fenway in 2011

In October 2010, Bayne signed a multi-year contract with Roush Fenway Racing. For the rest of 2010, Bayne drove the No. 17 Ford in the Nationwide Series. Over the complete 2010 season, Bayne ended up recording three pole positions, six top-five and eleven top-ten finishes, and finishing seventh in the final point standings.

For the 2011 season, Roush moved him to the No. 16 Nationwide Series car. He then went on medical leave for much of the spring. After recovering from his illness, Bayne made his return to racing at the STP 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on June 4, 2011, finishing third. He won his first Xfinity Series race at the Texas Motor Speedway on November 5, 2011, by edging out Denny Hamlin on a late race restart. Despite only competing in 29 of the 34 races, Bayne finished eleventh in points, recorded five top-five finishes, and fourteen top-ten finishes to go along with his Texas win.

For 2012, Bayne was moved by Roush to the No. 60 Ford in the Nationwide Series, however a lack of sponsorship sidelined the team after the first five races. Bayne came back to run one more race later in the season.

In 2013, Bayne replaced Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. in the No. 6 Nationwide Series car, with Stenhouse moving up to the Sprint Cup Series full-time. On June 9, Bayne got his second career Xfinity Series victory by winning the DuPont Pioneer 250 at Iowa Speedway after Austin Dillon's handling went away.

Bayne returned to the No. 6 and RFR for the 2014 season. Advocare, previously a sponsor in the Cup Series and primary sponsor of Austin Dillon the prior two years, came on to sponsor the full season.

Bayne came close to many wins in the spring of 2014. He almost won at Dover and was edged by Kyle Busch for the win. In an interview he said "My team's improved significantly. This series is so tough this year and we've been on our game. But you want to be greedy and ask for more." He finished second again at Chicago after leading a few laps. He then took home $200,000 in the Dash-4-Cash program at the Iowa race and split it between him and a randomly chosen fan.

Monster Energy Cup Series

2010–2014: Wood Brothers Racing

Bayne's 2011 Daytona 500 winning car

Bayne's 2013 Cup car at Texas Motor Speedway

Bayne moved to the 2010 Sprint Cup Series and raced for the Wood Brothers Racing team in the Texas 500, starting 28th and finishing 17th. He returned to the Wood Brothers in 2011 for a limited schedule. He won the first race of the season, the Daytona 500, to become youngest winner in Daytona 500 history, at the age of 20 years and one day. This was the Wood Brothers' first win since the 2001 season when Elliott Sadler won at Bristol. Despite the big win, Bayne finished 40th the next week at Phoenix. The Daytona 500 win also granted Bayne eligibility for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race in 2011 and 2012. However, the Wood Brothers originally didn't have the sponsorship to run the non-points event or Talladega. The team later announced that Bayne would run the All-Star as well as the spring Talladega race with sponsorship from Camping World and Good Sam Club. After the Samsung Mobile 500, Bayne was hospitalized for a spider bite but was released that Wednesday. Bayne raced at Talladega, but was caught up in an early crash. However, Bayne's illness returned after racing at Nashville Superspeedway, and was hospitalized for five weeks, with his Nationwide ride being taken over by Chris Buescher, Kevin Swindell and Matt Kenseth. Bayne's Cup Series ride for the Coca-Cola 600 was driven by Roush Fenway teammate Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.. The illness was originally thought to be Lyme Disease but later that same year it was announced that Bayne had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Bayne would return to the seat of the No. 16 and would win his first Nationwide race in Texas. For 2012, 2013 and 2014, Bayne returned to the No. 21 for a limited schedule.

2015–present: Roush Fenway Racing

On May 24, 2014, RFR announced that Bayne would be running the No. 6 full-time in the Sprint Cup Series for the 2015 season. Near the end of the 2014 season, Bayne intended to run the No. 6 Advocare Cup car in a few races to get a head-start on his 2015 campaign. However, the plan was aborted after he failed to qualify in his first race at Charlotte in October. Bayne was not eligible to run for Rookie of the Year consideration having spent four years running in several races.

Bayne qualified 15th in a controversial qualifying session for the Daytona 500. However a crash during the first Budweiser Duel forced Bayne to a backup car. He got collected in a late-race accident involving Jeff Gordon, Reed Sorenson, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and A. J. Allmendinger but nonetheless finished the race on the lead lap.

After bad performances throughout the spring, Bayne had a good run going at the GEICO 500. While running 3rd, he lost control of his car and triggered a massive crash. In an interview following, he would blame dirty air for causing him to lose control and cause the crash. At Dover on May 31, Bayne got into an accident involving Justin Allgaier and Michael Annett. After the race Bayne was called to the Oval Office and fined $20,000 for violating a race procedure made in wake of the Kevin Ward Jr. accident in August 2014, in which a driver must remain in their car until being permitted by officials to exit (unless fire or smoke engulf the car).

Trevor Bayne got his first top ten of the year at Michigan during the rain-delayed Quicken Loans 400. After an early speeding penalty, it looked like Bayne was set to finish a lap down. However, because several cars stayed out for the final yellow while the race leaders pitted, Bayne got his lap back and when the race was later called because of rain showers, Bayne had finished 9th. He picked up his first ARCA win at Pocono after starting first and dominating the race, and recorded another Cup Series top ten in the 2015 Coke Zero 400. Bayne's struggles would continue; he finished 40th in back-to-back races at Indianapolis and Pocono, being plagued by a major lack of speed at both tracks.

To start off 2016, Bayne would finish 28th in the Daytona 500. The next week at Atlanta, Bayne surprised many fans by qualifying 4th, but finished 22nd. In the following weeks, he finished 17th at Las Vegas, 23rd at Phoenix, 20th at Auto Club Speedway, 27th at Martinsville, 15th at Texas (after a fuel mileage gamble), and then a 5th-place finish at Bristol (getting his first top-5 of the year). The next week at Richmond he would finish 17th. The next week at Talladega, Bayne would have yet another strong race, he led several laps and finish 10th. The next week at Kansas he would qualify 10th but ended up blowing a tire and would finish 25th. The next week at Dover, his strong races would continue, when he finished 10th. The following week at Pocono, Bayne finished 25th place. The next week at Michigan, he finished 13th place. The next week at Sonoma, Bayne finished 15th place. The next week at Daytona, Bayne scored his third career top-5 finish as a 3rd place outing. The next week at Kentucky, it would come down to a fuel mileage race and Bayne would conserve enough fuel to finish 11th. The next week at New Hampshire, Bayne would finish 23rd. The next week at Indianapolis, Bayne would be involved in a wreck with Clint Bowyer on a Green-White-Checkered attempt and would finish 30th.

It was announced on November 30, 2016 that Liberty National Insurance would become a sponsor for Bayne and the Number 6 car.

In February 2017, Bayne picked up his first top ten finish of the season at the 2017 Daytona 500. He ran as high as third and finished 10th. At the 2017 Brickyard 400, Bayne had a fantastic race that ultimately was his nearest-miss of his entire career. Thanks to a strategy call by Matt Puccia, Bayne moved up in the standings to fourth and was in a position to take the lead from Brad Keselowski when Keselowski, Kasey Kahne, and Matt Kenseth pitted. His strategy was first thwarted by a caution that came out right as he took the lead, and after slipping in the standings from a pit stop found himself running fourth again. Bayne was about to take the lead on a restart, but got collected in an accident involving him, Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano and a few other cars. In a post-race interview, Bayne said, "I've never been more upset after a loss in my entire racing career. I say every week we give it all we have and we do it for God's glory and trust him with the results whether they're good or bad. It's hard to understand, but it hurts." Fellow driver Denny Hamlin blamed Bayne for the restart thoigh it shows it was not Bayne's fault and later saying to his crew that "He can't wait till his sponsorship money runs out".

Later in the year, he got two top 5's at Michigan and Bristol and was running as high as 2nd with two laps to go at Michigan until he got lose in the corner and fell to 5th. At Talladega in the fall, he miraculously finished 3rd after his car being beat to shreds from a couple late race accidents and pushed by 6 drivers on the last lap and nearly beating Ryan Newman for second. He got another Top 10 running at Martinsville by getting by a few cars on the last lap and finishing sixth sideways across the line on a multi car last lap crash.

Bayne finished 22nd in points for the second year in a row while breaking a new record for most Top 5'a and Top 10's in a year with 2 and 6 respectively. Liberty National would leave the team for Richard Childress Racing at the end of the year.

Personal life

Bayne is an outspoken Christian. He has credited his faith for helping him handle both the overnight success he experienced by winning the Daytona 500 as well as the health scare that took him away from racing briefly during the 2011 season. He has been on several mission trips to Mexico with Back2Back Ministries including one in December 2011. Bayne also attended Passion 2012 at the Georgia Dome and was recognized for his faith in front of approximately 45,000 college students during the final session of the conference.

In December 2012, Bayne announced his engagement to Ashton Clapp. The couple were married on June 4, 2013, and had their first child in December 2015. It was announced on December 15, 2016, that Trevor and Ashton are expecting their second child, a boy, in June 2017.

On November 12, 2013, Bayne announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Though in 2017, he did announce he didn't have MS but that the doctors wanted to name something, six years later, Bayne isn't sure what he has. Though he did state it does not affect his driving at all.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Monster Energy Cup Series

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	MENCC	Pts
2010	Wood Brothers Racing	21	Ford	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	SON	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	MAR	TAL	TEX 17	PHO	HOM	66th	112
2011				DAY 1	PHO 40	LVS 20	BRI 34	CAL 30	MAR 35	TEX 17	TAL 40	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	KAN	POC	MCH 16	SON	DAY 41	KEN	NHA	IND 30	POC	GLN	MCH 24	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI 23	NHA	DOV	KAN	CLT 31	TAL 15	MAR	TEX 17	PHO	HOM 25	53rd	01
2012				DAY 35	PHO	LVS 9	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX 28	KAN	RCH	TAL 8	DAR	CLT 24	DOV	POC	MCH 43	SON	KEN	DAY 27	NHA	IND 17	POC	GLN	MCH 24	BRI	ATL 16	RCH	CHI 20	NHA	DOV	TAL 21	CLT	KAN	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM	59th	01
2013				DAY 27	PHO	LVS 23	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX 18	KAN	RCH	TAL 43	DAR	CLT 16	DOV	POC	MCH 15	SON	KEN	DAY 20	NHA	IND 28	POC	GLN	MCH 21	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	KAN	CLT	TAL 23	MAR	TEX 29	PHO	HOM 40	56th	01
2014				DAY 33	PHO	LVS 20	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX 19	DAR	RCH	TAL 41	KAN	CLT 20	DOV	POC	MCH 19	SON	KEN	DAY 38	NHA	IND 43	POC	GLN	MCH 41	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	KAN		TAL 32	MAR	TEX 39	PHO	HOM 42	58th	01
	Roush Fenway Racing	6	Ford																															CLT DNQ
2015				DAY 30	ATL 19	LVS 28	PHO 28	CAL 29	MAR 18	TEX 18	BRI 28	RCH 24	TAL 41	KAN 31	CLT 27	DOV 43	POC 24	MCH 9	SON 23	DAY 9	KEN 13	NHA 32	IND 40	POC 40	GLN 22	MCH 22	BRI 15	DAR 35	RCH 23	CHI 28	NHA 16	DOV 31	CLT 22	KAN 18	TAL 21	MAR 31	TEX 39	PHO 34	HOM 18	29th	655
2016				DAY 28	ATL 22	LVS 17	PHO 23	CAL 20	MAR 27	TEX 15	BRI 5	RCH 17	TAL 10	KAN 25	DOV 10	CLT 25	POC 13	MCH 15	SON 25	DAY 3	KEN 11	NHA 23	IND 30	POC 19	GLN 9	BRI 12	MCH 25	DAR 40	RCH 14	CHI 23	NHA 38	DOV 20	CLT 18	KAN 17	TAL 17	MAR 23	TEX 30	PHO 28	HOM 20	22nd	762
2017				DAY 10	ATL 12	LVS 13	PHO 19	CAL 23	MAR 13	TEX 13	BRI 11	RCH 13	TAL 37	KAN 10	CLT 16	DOV 21	POC 21	MCH 17	SON 27	DAY 23	KEN 37	NHA 20	IND 20	POC 20	GLN 35	MCH 5	BRI 7	DAR 35	RCH 25	CHI 22	NHA 24	DOV 24	CLT 14	TAL 3	KAN 20	MAR 6	TEX 28	PHO 38	HOM 19	22nd	660
2018				DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	MAR	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	KAN	CLT	POC	MCH	SON	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	DOV	CLT	TAL	KAN	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2011	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	32	1
2012			40	35
2013			33	27
2014			14	33
2015	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	37	30
2016			23	28
2017			11	10
2018

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NXSC	Pts
2009	Earnhardt Ganassi Racing	52	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI 23	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV																								32nd	1648
	Michael Waltrip Racing	99	Toyota													NSH 28	KEN 12	MLW 12	NHA	DAY	CHI 12	GTY 27	IRP 7	IOW 26	GLN	MCH 30	BRI 24	CGV	ATL 26						MEM QL†	TEX 13	PHO 14	HOM
	CJM Racing	11																												RCH 7	DOV	KAN	CAL 19	CLT
2010	Diamond-Waltrip Racing	99		DAY 41	CAL 11	LVS 6	BRI 30	NSH 12	PHO 32	TEX 14	TAL 13	RCH 21	DAR 16	DOV 29	CLT 17	NSH 32	KEN 11	ROA 10	NHA 5	DAY 27	CHI 32	GTY 3	IRP 4	IOW 5	GLN 29	MCH 11	BRI 6	CGV 10	ATL 24	RCH 3	DOV 6								7th	4041
	Roush Fenway Racing	17	Ford																													KAN 30	CAL 11	CLT 17		TEX 12	PHO 14	HOM 5
		16																																	GTY 11
2011				DAY 10	PHO 31	LVS 5	BRI 19	CAL 6	TEX 13	TAL 6	NSH 6	RCH	DAR	DOV	IOW	CLT	CHI 3	MCH 5	ROA 31	DAY 22	KEN 11	NHA 13	NSH 9	IRP 28	IOW 25	GLN 9	CGV 23	BRI 13	ATL 33	RCH 28	CHI 11	DOV 6	KAN 9	CLT 3	TEX 1	PHO 6	HOM 11		11th	893
2012		60		DAY 11	PHO 7	LVS 4	BRI 8	CAL 14	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI 16	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			32nd	308
2013		6		DAY 31	PHO 4	LVS 4	BRI 12	CAL 9	TEX 26	RCH 12	TAL 28	DAR 32	CLT 6	DOV 4	IOW 1	MCH 5	ROA 30	KEN 12	DAY 10	NHA 7	CHI 7	IND 16	IOW 10	GLN 10	MOH 9	BRI 6	ATL 6	RCH 5	CHI 15	KEN 15	DOV 9	KAN 9	CLT 8	TEX 11	PHO 7	HOM 5			6th	1086
2014				DAY 3	PHO 7	LVS 8	BRI 8	CAL 9	TEX 23	DAR 9	RCH 11	TAL 10	IOW 9	CLT 8	DOV 2	MCH 30	ROA 27	KEN 15	DAY 9	NHA 9	CHI 2	IND 9	IOW 3	GLN 13	MOH 9	BRI 13	ATL 12	RCH 15	CHI 5	KEN 15	DOV 9	KAN 8	CLT 7	TEX 36	PHO 9	HOM 11			6th	1086
2016		60		DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	IOW	GLN 5	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			102nd	01
† - Qualified for David Reutimann

^* Season still in progress.
¹ Ineligible for series championship points.

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Racing Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	ARSC	Pts
2015	Cunningham Motorsports	22	Ford	DAY	MOB	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL	NJE	POC 1*	MCH	CHI	WIN	IOW	IRP	POC	BLN	ISF	DSF	SLM	KEN	KAN	85th	245

External links

• Official website
• Trevor Bayne driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Achievements
Preceded by Jamie McMurray	Daytona 500 winner 2011	Succeeded by Matt Kenseth