Trevor Bayne

Bayne finished in the 23rd position.

He then signed a contract with Michael Waltrip Racing for a limited race schedule.

In his first start for the team in the Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway, he qualified 2nd and finished 28th.

He got the pole position at the Kroger 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park and finished 7th at that race and the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond.

Trevor Mitchell Bayne (born February 19, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver, dirt racing driver, team owner, and businessman.

He is currently the Competition Advisor for Legacy Motor Club.

Bayne was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in February 1991.

He began racing go-karts at the age of five.

He continued to race go-karts for eight years, during which he recorded three World Championships with more than 300 feature wins and 18 total State and Track Championships.

In 2003 he moved to Allison Legacy Series, where he became the youngest top rookie.

The next year he became the series' National Champion, the youngest person ever to win the title.

During the two years he raced in the series, he won 14 races, earned 19 pole positions and recorded 30 top-five finishes in only 41 starts.

In 2005, When Bayne was 15 years old, he moved to the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Southern Division, in which he received the highest rookie honors.

In 2008, he signed a contract with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. under their driver development program, racing in the NASCAR Camping World East Series, where he recorded one win, six top-fives, and seven top-10 finishes and finished fourth in point standings.

One year later, he recorded Sunoco Rookie of the Race honors after participating in the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway.

After DEI merged into Chip Ganassi Racing's shop following 2008, Bayne was inherited as a development driver by Ganassi.

However, as Ganassi had shut down its Nationwide Series program after 2008, Bayne made his first Xfinity Series start in 2009 at Bristol Motor Speedway driving a Ganassi car carrying the No. 52 of Means Racing.

Also in 2009, he began racing in the Nationwide Series for Michael Waltrip Racing.

After about two years with the team, he moved to Roush Fenway Racing, at the end of the season, and began racing in the Sprint Cup Series for Wood Brothers Racing.

During the 2010 season, Bayne drove the No. 99 Out Pet Care Toyota Camry for Diamond-Waltrip Racing in 28 races before moving to Roush Fenway Racing.

While with Michael Waltrip Racing in 2010, he recorded three pole positions, five top-fives and nine top-ten finishes.

After announcing his departure from MWR after 2010, he was released and replaced with the Truex brothers Ryan Truex and Martin Truex Jr..

In October 2010, Bayne signed a multi-year contract with Roush Fenway Racing.

For the rest of 2010, Bayne drove the No. 17 Ford in the Nationwide Series.

Over the complete 2010 season, Bayne ended up recording three pole positions, six top-five and eleven top-ten finishes, and finishing seventh in the final point standings.

He is the youngest person to ever win the Daytona 500, the largest event in NASCAR, doing so a day after his 20th birthday in 2011.

The win came in only his second race in NASCAR's top series, and was his only victory in 187 total Cup Series starts.

For the 2011 season, Roush moved him to the No. 16 Nationwide Series car.

He then went on medical leave for much of the spring.

After recovering from his illness, Bayne made his return to racing at the STP 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on June 4, 2011, finishing third.

He won his first Xfinity Series race at the Texas Motor Speedway on November 5, 2011, by edging out Denny Hamlin on a late race restart.

Despite only competing in 29 of the 34 races, Bayne finished eleventh in points, recorded five top-five finishes, and fourteen top-ten finishes to go along with his Texas win.

For 2012, Bayne was moved by Roush to the No. 60 Ford in the Nationwide Series, however a lack of sponsorship sidelined the team after the first five races.

Bayne came back to run one more race later in the season.

In 2013, Bayne replaced Ricky Stenhouse Jr.. in the No. 6 Nationwide Series car, with Stenhouse moving up to the Sprint Cup Series full-time.

On June 9, Bayne got his second career Xfinity Series victory by winning the DuPont Pioneer 250 at Iowa Speedway after Austin Dillon's handling went away.

Bayne returned to the No. 6 and RFR for the 2014 season.

Advocare, previously a sponsor in the Cup Series and primary sponsor of Austin Dillon the prior two years, came on to sponsor the full season.

After losing his ride with Roush in 2018, Bayne opened Mahalo Coffee Roasters in Knoxville, Tennessee as well as starting in 2021 driving a 602 Crate Late Model on a part-time basis for his own team that he shares with his younger brother Trey Bayne in the American Crate All-Star Series presented by PPM.

At the end of 2022, he sold Mahalo Coffee Roasters as he was on the verge of signing a full-time deal with Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2023 (which did not end up happening).