Bayne-Osborne could help revive Roush's No. 6

Trevor Bayne and his newly assigned crew chief Bob Osborne might have a lot more in common than many really know.  Osborne was put on the back burner midway through 2012 when he was replaced by Chad Norris on Carl Edwards' team.  Bayne has had setbacks of his own, dealing with MS, having to wait the last few years for a sponsor to finally come along that would fit in with his style.

Advocare has stepped up to the plate and sponsored the team.  After just half a season together last May, Advocare and Roush Fenway Racing announced with Mark Martin away from the track that the No. 6 was returning to the track in the Sprint Cup Series full-time in 2015.  Bayne has worked mostly with Chad Norris through his career at Roush Fenway and Donnie Wingo with the Wood Brothers organization, neither are quite the style crew chief that Bob Osborne is.  He is an engineer turned crew chief, one of Roush's long-time employees, as he was once the head engineer on Mark Martin's No. 6 Fords with crew chief Jimmy Fennig.

Osborne has a lot of experience on top of the pit box, as he won 18 races with Carl Edwards from 2004-20012.  He made a comment with Claire B Lang a couple of weeks ago that his intent was always to return to the top of the box and accomplish somethings he wasn't able to do so before, like winning a championship.  Bayne was interviewed a week later and said "it was great to have a veteran guy around that has worked with young drivers before."

Bayne said before he was used to his teams thrashing to get the car, and Osborne's approach was different to run things like a test.  Bayne said he hoped it worked, and felt that Osborne brought great calling to the box, and compared Osborne to Brad Keselowski's crew chief Paul Wolfe.  Bayne felt that his experience in the NASCAR Xfinity Series cars would pay off with all the changes that the officials made to the cars to slow them down.  He has combined experience in both the series with Roush and the Wood Brothers, and as Osborne stated he is very technically experienced with the cars and what they need. 

The two have a lot to prove together, as many naysayers are already counting on failure between the two.