Roush Fenway puts three cars in the top-12 in Charlotte Qualifying

Trevor Bayne's patriotic paint scheme for Sunday
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For the first time since August 2014 at Michigan Roush Fenway Racing put all three of it's Ford Fusions inside the top-12 in Sprint Cup Series qualifying.  The last time RFR put all three cars in the final round of qualifying was at Michigan Speedway on August 17, 2014 when Carl Edwards, Ricky Stenhouse and Greg Biffle all three made the final round but did not all make the top-10 in the session.

In recent weeks, Trevor Bayne has enjoyed the most success of the Roush Fenway drivers scoring three top-ten finishes in the last five races and making the Sprint All Star race last weekend.  Bayne seemed to take it easy on his tires through the first round of knockout qualifying and was 22nd at the end of the session, but came back in the second round and put his AdvoCare Ford solidly inside the top-12 to make it into the final round of the session. 

Bayne then turned in the 10th fastest lap of the session in the final round in a special AdvoCare paint scheme.  Teammates Ricky Stenhouse and Greg Biffle qualified 3rd and 6th. 

"We're 10th again and like I said a couple of weeks ago we're kind of disappointed with 10th," said Trevor Bayne after his run.  "That's a refreshing thing to be disappointed with and all our teammates - third, sixth, and 10th - that's a pretty good day for Roush Fenway Racing.  That's kind of back to where we were in 2011, '12 when things were looking up for us.  We're glad to be heading the right direction.  We just missed the balance a little bit in my car.  It has speed in it and it definitely had enough to be a pole car today if we just hit the balance right.  We maybe over-adjusted a little bit and expected too much out of the race track with cool temps.  We were just overall too tight and didn't have enough adjustment in the car.  We got it too free trying, but it's a really good day for our AdvoCare Ford.  We can see the front from there and hopefully we can work our way to it."