Bayne deserved better at Roush

 You can sit and argue this with me until you are blue in the face and I am too, I have followed the working surroundings of Roush since the day this team was formed in 1988.  The fact is, Jack Roush has always had a surrounding piece where one car runs better than the other.  It was that way in his sports car operation, it moved through his stock car shop when they went to two cars in 1992 and it has always remained that way. 

The jest of this comes from a decision made last week to take Trevor Bayne out of the 6 for a majority of the races and part him with Matt Kenseth for the races that appears his sponsorship AdvoCare isn't on the car.  Let us just sit here an analyze a few things for a minute to get a better apprehension of what I am saying when I mean Bayne deserved better with this company.

April 27, 2018 -  Trevor Bayne stands at Talladega during
qualifying
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1.  No Driver Deserves to Find Out from Family - Jack Roush let this out on SiriusXM that Bayne found out through a family member that this deal was going down last Monday night.  In no way shape or form should a driver have to find out from a family member that this is happening, and nor should a family member find out before the driver what is going on.  To me that showed the first true sign of Roush's true colors right there, and while they made a statement that they planned to take a flight to Knoxville and tell Trevor, I don't buy it one bit at all. 

2.  Jack Roush and Mark Martin set the deal up almost a month and half ago - If you listen to Mark Martin on several podcast he made the statement that Roush asked to call Matt Kenseth over a month ago and did so and got the ball rolling to get him back into a race car for the company.  So that left ample opportunity for them to notify Bayne of what was going on.  I believe that Roush and Martin played the biggest part in this deal and if you go back to when Martin says he made the first call to Kenseth, that's when the performance truly started to fall off the map of the 6 car totally.  I feel that Martin and Kenseth have more into the deal than what is being led to believe after you hear Matt Kenseth say he wants to have more of a role after he is done driving. 

3.  Stenhouse gets 4 crew chiefs since going full-time, Bayne two?  - Yeah, you read that right.  Ricky Stenhouse Jr., went through three crew chiefs before Brian Pattie was able to help him win two races last year.  Trevor Bayne has worked with Bob Osborne and Matt Puccia, and they have not been the pick of the litter in my opinion when it comes to making decisions on changes with the race car during the races.  You can't just make a simple air pressure adjustment and expect a car that is handling so negatively to go back to the positive.  I think that this is one of those moves that shows a motive of how Jack Roush either loves you or he hates you, and it's been that way since this company started. 

A crew chief is the leader of the team and Puccia has not been able to get the results, even with veteran Greg Biffle when he was his crew chief on the 16 car.  The basis is, the crew chief needs to be able to listen to the driver and make sure he pulls the right changes from the engineer.  But where I am getting at, when one driver goes through 4 crew chiefs and the other has gotten two and he's the one getting replaced, something just isn't right with this picture. 

Conclusion - I believe this company has been a let down to Trevor Bayne since he came here.  Bayne has been loyal, he's never thrown anyone under the bus, while I do feel there's been times he should have thrown the whole organization under but that is not his style.  Many fans didn't like how Trevor handled the situation with the media last week, I was proud of him.  He was at the toughest track on the schedule and he wanted to focus.  Then after being wrecked, he thanked AdvoCare and the people that supported him through this tough time, not one mention of Roush.  I was proud of how he handled that situation.  He didn't need to thank the team that had just pretty much handed him his pink slip and put someone else in his ride for a majority of his races.