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an American NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series race car driver. He drove the number 21 Ford Fusion for Wood Brothers Racing in the Cup Series, and the number 16 Ford Mustang for Roush Fenway Racing in the Xfinity Series. Bayne was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and began his racing career racing go-karts at the age of five. After eight years, he moved to Allison Legacy Race 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-five, and seven top-10 finishes. In 2009, he began racing in the Xfinity Series for Michael Waltrip Racing. After one year with MWR, he moved to Roush Fenway Racing, driving in the NASCAR Xfinity series... and began racing in the NASCAR Cup Series for Wood Brothers Racing. Bayne ran just one event in the Cup Series in 2010, when he participated in the 2010 AAA Texas 500 for the Wood Brothers Racing team.

During the race he finished in the 17th position, after starting 28th. In 2011, he returned to Wood Brothers Racing for a limited schedule for the second consecutive year. In the first race of the season (and second Cup start of his career), the Daytona 500, he finished first, thereby becoming the youngest winner in the race's history at the age of 20 years and one day, (photo at right). The victory was his team's first win since the 2001 season. It was the Wood Brothers first Daytona 500 win since 1976 (David Pearson). Bayne joins some elite company. A list of drivers who wheeled a Wood Brothers car to victory in the Daytona include; Tiny Lund (1963), Cale Yarborough

(1968), AJ Foyt (1972), and Pearson. Just a few of the other notable drivers who have driven for the Wood Brothers include, Glen Wood, Banjo Matthews, Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, Speedy Thompson, Curtis Turner, Buddy Baker, Dale Jarrett, Neil Bonnett, Kyle Petty, Ken Schrader, and Bill Elliott. The Wood brothers were still reluctant to run a full series schedule concentrating only on tracks where they thought they could run competitively; and Bayne continued to be the driver through 2014. Bayne was offered a full time ride in 2015 for Roush racing. Roush Racing had been the dominate Ford team for years; but about this time Roush racing started to struggle with fielding competitive race cars. However, that season he posted two top ten finishes and in 2016 followed that up with five top ten finishes with two of these being in the top five. The

best being a third at Daytona. 2017 saw Bayne still struggle to have good finishes. It seemed like Roush-Fenway Racing had fallen a bit behind; along with veteran drivers Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards leaving left them as a weaker team. Bayne was only able to post two Top 5 finishes and six Top 10 finishing during the 2017 season; and finished 22nd in the points. At the end of the 2017 season Bayne had made 166 Cup starts with one win, five Top 5's, and 16 Top 10's. Bayne was back full time with Roush Fenway Racing in 2018 driving the #6 Advocare Ford. 2018 proved to be the end of the line for Bayne at Roush Racing. Roush Racing continued to struggle in 2018. Roush even hired "retired" Matt Kenseth to come back and drive part time to help figure out why the cars were not competitive. Kenseth found that Bayne had been correct in his analysis of the cars

problem for not having speed. The Roush group did manage to find some things to make their cars faster toward the end of the season. However, after Bayne was only able to post a season's best eleventh place finish he was released. Ryan Newman left Richard Childress to come and drive the #6 vehicle in 2019. Bayne was out of racing in 2019; but he came back for a few NASCAR races in 2020. In his free time that year, Bayne opened and currently operates Mahalo Coffee Roasters in Knoxville, Tennessee. He ran his first ever races in the Truck Series driving for Niece Motorsports. He got off to a rough start the first two races. Due to the covid virus all the NASCAR series had no practice; and since he hadn't raced in almost

two years; it took a while to knock the rust off. However, in his third start (Bristol) he ran great and finished fifth. But his truck failed post race tech and he was disqualified. The next race he almost pulled off the win finishing second at Talladega; and followed that up with a tenth place finish the following race. He did not race in NASCAR in 2021, but he convinced Joe Gibbs to give him a part-time ride in the Xfinity Series for 2022; in an effort to show team owners he still had what it takes to compete in NASCAR. He completed all but one lap in the races he ran; and finished second twice (both times to Justin Allgaier) and had five Top 5 and seven Top 10's in nine races. The only two

races he did not finish in the Top 10 were the super speedways of Talladega and Atlanta; where he finished in the lead pack. Bayne wasn’t able to land a full time ride in any series for 2023; but he did get to run a few events to show he still had the skills to be competitive. He ran three races wheeling the #19 for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Xfinity series. His first run came at Daytona where he ran up front; leading 26 laps and finishing in the top ten in the first two stages. He got involved in an accident late in the race. His second start came at Bristol where he started 12th; ran well and finished seventh. His final start came at Texas where he qualified second. He finished fourth in Stage one and was fifth at the end of stage two. He

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TREVOR MITCHELL BAYNE - 02/19/1991