Bayne, Osborne starting to come together after 18th place finish

Trevor Bayne and Bob Osborne worked together for the sixth time on Sunday afternoon in Martinsville and the two seemed to have found the right chemistry during the first short track race of the season.  After qualifying 36th on Friday, Bayne began to steadily move forward until Alex Bowman ran into the side of Bayne's car cutting the tire and making him spin out.

Bayne battled back to an 18th place finish with a damaged car

Bayne returned to the track in 43rd after the crew did a few minor repairs on the car.  The race resumed on lap 16.  Bayne was able to work himself up to 29th as Osborne decided to keep him on the track after the second caution flag fell on lap 21.  Bayne worked his way into the top-25 for the first time before the 100th mark of the race.  He was able to keep up with the track and remain in the top-25, and cracked the top-20 for the first time following a lap 171 restart in the race. 

Bayne and Osborne seemed to have figured out the new in car track bar adjuster out, as Bayne would move it to .6 on the meter and as the race went on, he would drop it down as the track tightened up.  Osborne used more strategy to help Bayne move forward in the race.  Bayne would move into the top-5 and maintained a position amongst the top-ten until he was shuffled on the outside of the track. 

Bayne was shuffled outside the top-20 but the driver and crew chief remained upbeat, as Osborne kept telling him he was doing a great job keeping his car in one piece. He was able to overcome two incidents not of his making late in the race to come back and finish in 18th position.  It was the first race this season that the team has been able to stay on the lead lap throughout the whole race.  Bayne is now 26th in the points standings 36 points behind 16th.