Bayne, Osborne starting to click

Trevor Bayne and Bob Osborne began this season with a lot of unknowns with each other as the two were paired together in the off season of 2014.  Up until a few weeks ago at Michigan, there were many people questioning whether or not Jack Roush had put the right crew chief with Trevor Bayne for his first full season in the Sprint Cup season.

After last weekend's race at Kentucky Speedway the questions are being answered.  Bayne and Osborne have began to click and it is showing in their results on the track.  The 13th place finish that the team ended up with didn't reflect how well they actually ran throughout the whole night.  Bayne fell behind early on and lost a lap to the leaders but was the lucky dog on lap 99 and from that point on, the No. 6 Advocare Ford moved towards the front of the field.  Bayne made it into the top-20 by lap 141 and only needed six more laps to make into the top-15.  By lap 156, he was into the sixth position and he would maintain his track position inside the top-10 through the late race run.

Bayne & Osborne talk during practice at Kentucky Speedway

The showed on Saturday night that they are finally understanding one another on the radio, as Osborne was able to make adjustments to the car to better fit Bayne.  It wasn't until the late race run when Bayne's car began to become loose that the car lost track position and he fell to 13th.

"We're making gains with this Advocare Ford Fusion and we've got to keep rolling with it," said Bayne after the race.  "  The 17 finished 11th, so that's good for our organization.  We're getting better and showing that it wasn't just a fluke to finish in the top-10 just once.  We're proving that we can be there every week and that's what we have to do."

As I look back over the last month and a half, I think winning the ARCA race at Pocono was a confidence booster for Bayne and getting the track position helped him.  Also this was Bayne and Osborne's 18th race together and the chemistry is finally beginning to click between the two of them.
It takes time to build team chemistry, however, as it has been shown in the last few weeks these two are clicking on all cylinders.  Also spotter Freddie Kraft deserves credit for keeping Trevor Bayne out of trouble and keeping him paced.  The pit crew has been on top of their game as of late, as they showed on Saturday by not losing any track position during the entire race.

This weekend the series will be going to Loudon where Trevor Bayne has never turned a lap in a Sprint Cup car.  Bayne, however, has four career starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with 1 top-five and 3 top-tens, leading 58 laps in the 2011 race at the track.