Is it time Bayne shows a meaner side?

Bayne's car was just one of many demolished from Harvick's decision

There's just so much a driver can take until he learns to fight back, or in racing terms retaliate on the track.  We all can remember Joey Logano having his issues with Kevin Harvick and several other drivers before he learned not to take their crap on the track and he's grown into a winning race car driver.  I think that it is time that Trevor Bayne do the same thing with some of these drivers that he seems constantly have wrecking him, including Harvick.

In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Bayne had a run in with Austin Dillon at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2012 when he was running the No. 60 We Back Pat Ford Mustang.  Dillon wrecked Bayne while the two were battling for position, and at the end of the race Bayne showed some frustration toward Dillon.  The following year at Iowa while the two were battling for the win, I think had that incident not went on at Bristol, Trevor Bayne might have raced Dillon a little bit differently when they went for the race lead.  Bayne roughed Dillon up a bit to get around him for the lead, and that was the first time that I could remember him really showing that he would use his aggravation towards winning.

While the cars at Roush Fenway Racing don't seem to be competitive to compete with those of Harvick's, it might be time that Bayne gives Harvick a taste of his own medicine at one of these next few tracks even if it means keeping Harvick from making the final round in the Chase.  Bayne was on his way to probably a season best finish last weekend at Talladega.  Like I said earlier this week in my blog, all you have to do is watch Harvick's hand motion during the in car camera video and you can see him jolt his hands to the right when Bayne goes to the outside to make the pass for the position.

I guess in NASCAR's eyes it just didn't happen that way.  One of their major stars wrecks a young driver to stay in the Chase so to them it wasn't a matter of principle since Harvick has a major sponsor like Budweiser on his car.  I go back to a scene from the movie Days of Thunder  where Tim says "NASCAR don't see anything like that.  Harry responds "Oh I guess it ain't happening, then,  under the watchful eye of experts like you and NASCAR."  The fact is, it doesn't take a genius to see the hand motions of Harvick and know what he did.  He can defend himself, his crew chief can block fans like myself on twitter but there's going to be a question mark on Talladega no matter however you look at it.  Harvick wrecked Bayne.

He not only took Bayne out, he took away the chance for several drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Denny Hamlin to advance on by causing that wreck.  So I'm sure in the back of their heads their is a thought of a little bit of payback going on.  But maybe this will be a wake up call for Trevor Bayne to stop taking crap from people like Kevin Harvick on the race track.