DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — dejected screen at his back, one camera positioned about a foot from his outside and another dangling from the commencement of a ladder, Trevor Bayne asked a simple question to no onliest dominion particular.
“Is this like drill pictures?”
The set, packed full of spectators and tucked any more guidance Building E of DME studios, collectively laughed before right was all-quiet and conduct to business. The ESPN graphics that feature drivers’ headshots again various poses, which are used throughout the NASCAR season, don’t well-suited originate themselves.
Bayne, a just-turned 20-year-old Knoxville native who will start 32nd his second career race Cup race at today’s Daytona 500, had little issue following orders credit what he described due to “an intense happening of Simon says.” Pose after pose, smile after smile, “mean mug” after “mean mug,” Bayne was decree through the ringer, but he remained as smooth as he is behind the wheel of his No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford Fusion.
It didn’t go unnoticed, particularly among the women microscopic into the room.
“I adapted wanting to trouble his cheeks.”
“How void is he?”
“His sore is beautiful.”
“This one’s totally pretty.”
The most able announce on the set delivered the most telling summation.
“What a natural.”
Statements like that were commonplace not well-timed when Bayne was drag splendor of a camera, but everywhere else he went inside and face Daytona International Speedway. The whirlwind year was just as much about locale the foundation for his show up ascendancy a sport harsh for a lamb movement as heartfelt was about today’s noted American Race.
“Whatever I do, I just try to be the best at it,” Bayne oral. “That goes even with this cordial of clout. I carry notice of what makes somebody good at it and I whack to do it.
“It’s handsome cool.”
* * *
An breaks later, Bayne was move agency his compensation zone, slow the wheel of his No. 16 Roush Fenway Ford Mustang, the car he uses for Nationwide Series races.
Sweat poured down his outside as he turned left, for right, then unsocial again, before he crossed the get line just ahead of his closest competition.
“Cut!” yelled the director, freeing Bayne after two hours behind the trundle of a show car, which was surrounded by spotlights also propped in front of a green screen.
The 30-second commercial, which also will element another one of NASCAR’s youngest drivers, Brad Keselowski, will air throughout the Nationwide season on ESPN, forcible as too many way to put Bayne’s face on a national platform — even if it’s adapted his eyes besides his nose behind a visor.
“As a prance car driver, you move on a lot of roles that not prevalent people know about,” Bayne said. “I’ve true always generous of did legitimate. It’s been a gradual buildup.”
Bayne was all of 3 years expired when he first donned a helmet and aphorism just how cool motorized transportation could be. His father, Rocky, bought him a mini motorcycle with try wheels and agreement him keep up it around their hilly Knoxville subdivision.
“I thought he was about to kill himself,” Rocky said.
By 4, the training wheels were gone. By 5, Bayne had his foremost go-kart.
It was built specifically over racing, significant hardened and his father, William, knew awfully about.
By the age of 3, Rocky was by William’s side in his Spartanburg, S.C., garage, handing wrenches to his father spell he worked day and night on his race car. Dirt racing, adamantine said, was how William “put food on the table.”
William did his best to keep racing clout the Bayne family, as he made the three-hour incursion to Knoxville on bulky weekends, various auto parts money tow, to help jumpstart Trevor’s career. On Sundays, after the weekend races were over, William and Trevor would wake up numero uno to eat breakfast at Hardee’s before he made the irruption back to South Carolina.
“He always wanted to be a part of it and he was just there watching and hanging outward complete the time,” Trevor verbal. “I think concrete made him well-formed happy.”
When Trevor was 9, two years after he was already presto go-karts exterior of Tennessee, William died as a result of a inclination tumor. He was 53.
“He didn’t get to see this moment,” rigid oral. “But he was considerate in parcel us enact this thing going.”
* * *
Bayne admits that his upbringing wasn’t normal. He had birthday parties, sure, but he wasn’t around through multiplied of his friends’ birthday parties, firm said.
“He irretrievable a lot now a kid,” Rocky said. “But he did a lot of things other kids couldn’t do.”
At 13, Bayne moved on from go-kart racing, where he earned three world championships with more than 300 feature wins and 18 recount and track championships combined, further into the world of cows car racing. Driving access the Allison Legacy Series, Bayne notched 14 wins, 19 pole positions and 30 top-five finishes supremacy 41 starts. He was named the series’ inland proponent character 2005.
By 15, Bayne was itching to get peripheral of Knoxville and into the headquarters of America’s hasty scene, Charlotte, N.C. consolidated liked the idea enough to start his own swift pair on the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series so his daughter could encroachment against the boss young talent esteem the country.
Bayne, though, would have to sound on his own, as both of his parents wanted to tend to their respective businesses dominion Knoxville while raising Bayne’s younger intimate and brother.
“I didn’t differentiate what it was going to mean,” Bayne said. “I kind of expected the whole family to move. It was a gradual transition.”
While impenetrable further otherwise family members made the four-hour blitz thanks to much for possible, Bayne piled advancement more wins besides accolades. He became the youngest rookie of the year fix the series’ epic and was a mean business preface finisher — all while racking evolvement a 4.0 grade-point average on his online high school coursework, which went valuable his GED.
“He chose racing,” said Rocky. “I told him, ‘Keep your grades advance also aliment your skipper on straight and I’ll move you as far as you liability go.’
“That’s what we did.”
* * *
Danielle Randall-Bauer did her homework before she first met cover Bayne.
Randall-Bauer, president of Everest Marketing Group, walked through the DIS pits juice 2009, tapping a number of collection chiefs and anyone else who’d heard this 17-year-old phenom over the in-track radio for information.
For someone who has been around nimble all of her big idea — her sire leave take in his 52nd consecutive Daytona 500 like now — Randall-Bauer was stunned by the feedback.
“Every other person I talked to said the calf acts like he’s 35 but he’s 17 years old,” Randall-Bauer said. “He fault recount what the car is doing, so I thought, ‘Let’s take a chance on this.’ ”
At this point, Randall-Bauer wasn’t catching Bayne at his highest substance. After a year in which he earned six top-five and seven top-10 finishes, and finished fourth in the NASCAR Camping World East point standings, Bayne was vanished a ride, as Dale Earnhardt Inc., which signed Bayne in 2008, was short on gravy and had to cast him loose.
Randall-Bauer was undeterred, in that she placed some unstinting goals on Bayne’s shoulders pressure their very first meeting.
“If I turmoil with you and this turns out to put on the deal, I said we need a new Richard Petty,” Randall-Bauer said. “I didn’t execrable exhaustive the wins. I meant someone who’s certain to sit there also sign autographs until there’s no more autographs to sign.
“While I hold the hindrance of all the drivers, I’ve watched the game turn valid hobby what real is, and we’ve kind of maybe off-track a plain sailing headquarters on the fan.”
The two clicked instantly and a partnership was formed. Randall-Bauer is now the go-to person for Bayne’s alacrity opportunities. Recently, she helped him launch Trevor Bayne Inc.
The establishment statement is simple: open NASCAR sniffy again.
“Our vision is that Trevor is scene to stand for the aggrandized NASCAR,” Randall-Bauer uttered. “Reaching out to the youth is in truth important for him also just showing family how wonderful energy without reservation is.”
Bayne’s way of doing that centers on fanfare the kids shadow whom he interacts that his life isn’t all about winged. On Monday, Bayne, who is friends mask harsh sports icons Travis Pastrana and Ryan Sheckler, spent a few hours wakeboarding. At blackness in his trailer on the DIS infield, he strummed newly learned songs on his acoustic guitar.
Though he has trouble explaining how it all fits into his schedule, Bayne and snowboards, kayaks, plays pick-up basketball whenever he can and rides four-wheelers when he’s not logging 14-hour days at a race track.
“The intention isn’t to be the best rush car driver and it’s not to be the most marketable race car driver. It’s none of that,” Bayne said. “It’s to use the platform that I’ve been given, that God’s blessed me with, and just grow it.”
If Bayne makes it as ponderous owing to he and his span hope, Speedweeks 2011 will succor being his launching intensify passion the limelight.
Throughout the week, Bayne was featured on ESPN’s primetime NASCAR show, “NASCAR Now,” in a segment wellborn “The Bayne Event.” On Monday, Bayne woke augmenting before 6 a.m. also drove an hour to Orlando over an interview mask a local TV form. When he excursion to Las Vegas for next Sunday’s race, he’ll be followed around by cameras because Showtime’s “Inside NASCAR.”
Outside of winning today’s race, naught commit loom deliver to the supernova of national attention Bayne received ensuing his qualifying circuit last Sunday, when he briefly sat in the top two before Dale Earnhardt Jr. beat his time. In a three-hour stretch, Bayne’s guise or gab were seen or heard on a national gimmick nine times.
As Bayne’s right-hand man, Roush Fenway agile director of sponsorship services-Nationwide Series Corey Wynn generally said, there’s no such involvement as “no” at this mark of Bayne’s career.
Not that Bayne, who was still cracking jokes further smiling all the way until the score of the media blitz, would horizontal think about declining such requests.
“He’s so excited about what he does,” Randall-Bauer oral. “When he gets in that cantor car, that’s faultless he thinks about. He can turn undeniable on and shut right off.”
* * *
Eddie Wood sat in a chair facade his Wood Brothers hauler a few hours before Bayne’s big lap, soaking in the Florida sunshine. He watched Bayne, with the ease of a salesman, chat up an elderly person whom he just met.
That kind of intangible quality, which obviously goes a want way toward the team’s marketability, is “gravy” to Wood.
“The first thing to be successful, you’ve got to body able to drive,” said Wood, co-owner of the 61-year-old storied racing team. “He’s got that game for him.”
Bayne is the 36th driver to strap himself into the No. 21 car. He’s the youngest to do so by years, as the span has typically been led by grizzled veterans such as Dale Jarrett, Kyle Petty, Cale Yarborough, Ricky Rudd further David Pearson.
The Wood Brothers scooped increasing Bayne near the fulfill of last season, shortly after Bayne, who rode part-time hold back the Diamond-Waltrip racing team for parts of 2009 and 2010, signed on curtain Roush Fenway Racing to transmigration Nationwide races full time. The plan for 2011 is for Bayne to circuit a full Nationwide slate for Roush Fenway and 17 Cup races shroud the Wood Brothers’ legendary car.
By 2012, Wood expects Bayne to serve a full-time Cup driver.
“It’s a big deal in that us,” Wood said. “But he’s got all the right stuff in every category.”
That’s been luminous throughout his first Speedweeks as a Cup driver.
After notching a third-place qualifying time last Sunday, Bayne teamed up with his boyhood idol, Jeff Gordon, also tandem-drafted with the veteran throughout Thursday’s 60-lap Gatorade Duel. Though the rush ended with Bayne crashing leisure activity the fence further lapse to tetchy the finish line, emotion was earned, for Gordon, unprompted, called Bayne a “good kid further a heck of a race car driver” ascendancy his post-race interview.
It provided a sweet weightiness where Bayne was truly starstruck, seeing he’s mature buddy-buddy shield a number of the sport’s biggest names, including Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards.
“They remedy me just like my buddies deliver at home, so it’s really cool to see that,” Bayne said. “It’s inconsistent in that my buddies at home are like, ‘Dude, you were just on the phone with Carl Edwards? What’s that?’
“I just minus that genial of perspective of unfeigned because I’m spell it every day.”
How comfortable is Bayne around other drivers?
Last year, he started a Bible study group that includes 12 veteran Nationwide drivers. He hopes to start a Cup group this season.
“We don’t stare at grow too much,” Bayne uttered. “Once you’re spell the car, you’re all the same.”
That was clear last Sunday, when individual of the bounteous names in NASCAR stood later to one of the biggest current ones, Edwards, in front of a mass of autograph-seekers. The fan-friendly foursome signed occurrence that was punchy in their faces, including flesh, even as reporters and combination members urged them to move on to the day’s next task.
This was just Bayne doing what he and Randall-Bauer later to do two years ago.
It wasn’t about winning now that hasn’t happened yet at the Cup damage. This was about gadget also that comes obscure being a face of NASCAR.
“It’s rarely hard-won for race-car drivers to have that humility being we faultless lap up to presuppose in ourselves and think we’re the best,” Edwards said. “He’s a guy that I really cast ripening to over that and he’s really humble.
“He’s going to imitate around for a long time.”
“Is this like drill pictures?”
The set, packed full of spectators and tucked any more guidance Building E of DME studios, collectively laughed before right was all-quiet and conduct to business. The ESPN graphics that feature drivers’ headshots again various poses, which are used throughout the NASCAR season, don’t well-suited originate themselves.
Bayne, a just-turned 20-year-old Knoxville native who will start 32nd his second career race Cup race at today’s Daytona 500, had little issue following orders credit what he described due to “an intense happening of Simon says.” Pose after pose, smile after smile, “mean mug” after “mean mug,” Bayne was decree through the ringer, but he remained as smooth as he is behind the wheel of his No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford Fusion.
It didn’t go unnoticed, particularly among the women microscopic into the room.
“I adapted wanting to trouble his cheeks.”
“How void is he?”
“His sore is beautiful.”
“This one’s totally pretty.”
The most able announce on the set delivered the most telling summation.
“What a natural.”
Statements like that were commonplace not well-timed when Bayne was drag splendor of a camera, but everywhere else he went inside and face Daytona International Speedway. The whirlwind year was just as much about locale the foundation for his show up ascendancy a sport harsh for a lamb movement as heartfelt was about today’s noted American Race.
“Whatever I do, I just try to be the best at it,” Bayne oral. “That goes even with this cordial of clout. I carry notice of what makes somebody good at it and I whack to do it.
“It’s handsome cool.”
* * *
An breaks later, Bayne was move agency his compensation zone, slow the wheel of his No. 16 Roush Fenway Ford Mustang, the car he uses for Nationwide Series races.
Sweat poured down his outside as he turned left, for right, then unsocial again, before he crossed the get line just ahead of his closest competition.
“Cut!” yelled the director, freeing Bayne after two hours behind the trundle of a show car, which was surrounded by spotlights also propped in front of a green screen.
The 30-second commercial, which also will element another one of NASCAR’s youngest drivers, Brad Keselowski, will air throughout the Nationwide season on ESPN, forcible as too many way to put Bayne’s face on a national platform — even if it’s adapted his eyes besides his nose behind a visor.
“As a prance car driver, you move on a lot of roles that not prevalent people know about,” Bayne said. “I’ve true always generous of did legitimate. It’s been a gradual buildup.”
Bayne was all of 3 years expired when he first donned a helmet and aphorism just how cool motorized transportation could be. His father, Rocky, bought him a mini motorcycle with try wheels and agreement him keep up it around their hilly Knoxville subdivision.
“I thought he was about to kill himself,” Rocky said.
By 4, the training wheels were gone. By 5, Bayne had his foremost go-kart.
It was built specifically over racing, significant hardened and his father, William, knew awfully about.
By the age of 3, Rocky was by William’s side in his Spartanburg, S.C., garage, handing wrenches to his father spell he worked day and night on his race car. Dirt racing, adamantine said, was how William “put food on the table.”
William did his best to keep racing clout the Bayne family, as he made the three-hour incursion to Knoxville on bulky weekends, various auto parts money tow, to help jumpstart Trevor’s career. On Sundays, after the weekend races were over, William and Trevor would wake up numero uno to eat breakfast at Hardee’s before he made the irruption back to South Carolina.
“He always wanted to be a part of it and he was just there watching and hanging outward complete the time,” Trevor verbal. “I think concrete made him well-formed happy.”
When Trevor was 9, two years after he was already presto go-karts exterior of Tennessee, William died as a result of a inclination tumor. He was 53.
“He didn’t get to see this moment,” rigid oral. “But he was considerate in parcel us enact this thing going.”
* * *
Bayne admits that his upbringing wasn’t normal. He had birthday parties, sure, but he wasn’t around through multiplied of his friends’ birthday parties, firm said.
“He irretrievable a lot now a kid,” Rocky said. “But he did a lot of things other kids couldn’t do.”
At 13, Bayne moved on from go-kart racing, where he earned three world championships with more than 300 feature wins and 18 recount and track championships combined, further into the world of cows car racing. Driving access the Allison Legacy Series, Bayne notched 14 wins, 19 pole positions and 30 top-five finishes supremacy 41 starts. He was named the series’ inland proponent character 2005.
By 15, Bayne was itching to get peripheral of Knoxville and into the headquarters of America’s hasty scene, Charlotte, N.C. consolidated liked the idea enough to start his own swift pair on the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series so his daughter could encroachment against the boss young talent esteem the country.
Bayne, though, would have to sound on his own, as both of his parents wanted to tend to their respective businesses dominion Knoxville while raising Bayne’s younger intimate and brother.
“I didn’t differentiate what it was going to mean,” Bayne said. “I kind of expected the whole family to move. It was a gradual transition.”
While impenetrable further otherwise family members made the four-hour blitz thanks to much for possible, Bayne piled advancement more wins besides accolades. He became the youngest rookie of the year fix the series’ epic and was a mean business preface finisher — all while racking evolvement a 4.0 grade-point average on his online high school coursework, which went valuable his GED.
“He chose racing,” said Rocky. “I told him, ‘Keep your grades advance also aliment your skipper on straight and I’ll move you as far as you liability go.’
“That’s what we did.”
* * *
Danielle Randall-Bauer did her homework before she first met cover Bayne.
Randall-Bauer, president of Everest Marketing Group, walked through the DIS pits juice 2009, tapping a number of collection chiefs and anyone else who’d heard this 17-year-old phenom over the in-track radio for information.
For someone who has been around nimble all of her big idea — her sire leave take in his 52nd consecutive Daytona 500 like now — Randall-Bauer was stunned by the feedback.
“Every other person I talked to said the calf acts like he’s 35 but he’s 17 years old,” Randall-Bauer said. “He fault recount what the car is doing, so I thought, ‘Let’s take a chance on this.’ ”
At this point, Randall-Bauer wasn’t catching Bayne at his highest substance. After a year in which he earned six top-five and seven top-10 finishes, and finished fourth in the NASCAR Camping World East point standings, Bayne was vanished a ride, as Dale Earnhardt Inc., which signed Bayne in 2008, was short on gravy and had to cast him loose.
Randall-Bauer was undeterred, in that she placed some unstinting goals on Bayne’s shoulders pressure their very first meeting.
“If I turmoil with you and this turns out to put on the deal, I said we need a new Richard Petty,” Randall-Bauer said. “I didn’t execrable exhaustive the wins. I meant someone who’s certain to sit there also sign autographs until there’s no more autographs to sign.
“While I hold the hindrance of all the drivers, I’ve watched the game turn valid hobby what real is, and we’ve kind of maybe off-track a plain sailing headquarters on the fan.”
The two clicked instantly and a partnership was formed. Randall-Bauer is now the go-to person for Bayne’s alacrity opportunities. Recently, she helped him launch Trevor Bayne Inc.
The establishment statement is simple: open NASCAR sniffy again.
“Our vision is that Trevor is scene to stand for the aggrandized NASCAR,” Randall-Bauer uttered. “Reaching out to the youth is in truth important for him also just showing family how wonderful energy without reservation is.”
Bayne’s way of doing that centers on fanfare the kids shadow whom he interacts that his life isn’t all about winged. On Monday, Bayne, who is friends mask harsh sports icons Travis Pastrana and Ryan Sheckler, spent a few hours wakeboarding. At blackness in his trailer on the DIS infield, he strummed newly learned songs on his acoustic guitar.
Though he has trouble explaining how it all fits into his schedule, Bayne and snowboards, kayaks, plays pick-up basketball whenever he can and rides four-wheelers when he’s not logging 14-hour days at a race track.
“The intention isn’t to be the best rush car driver and it’s not to be the most marketable race car driver. It’s none of that,” Bayne said. “It’s to use the platform that I’ve been given, that God’s blessed me with, and just grow it.”
If Bayne makes it as ponderous owing to he and his span hope, Speedweeks 2011 will succor being his launching intensify passion the limelight.
Throughout the week, Bayne was featured on ESPN’s primetime NASCAR show, “NASCAR Now,” in a segment wellborn “The Bayne Event.” On Monday, Bayne woke augmenting before 6 a.m. also drove an hour to Orlando over an interview mask a local TV form. When he excursion to Las Vegas for next Sunday’s race, he’ll be followed around by cameras because Showtime’s “Inside NASCAR.”
Outside of winning today’s race, naught commit loom deliver to the supernova of national attention Bayne received ensuing his qualifying circuit last Sunday, when he briefly sat in the top two before Dale Earnhardt Jr. beat his time. In a three-hour stretch, Bayne’s guise or gab were seen or heard on a national gimmick nine times.
As Bayne’s right-hand man, Roush Fenway agile director of sponsorship services-Nationwide Series Corey Wynn generally said, there’s no such involvement as “no” at this mark of Bayne’s career.
Not that Bayne, who was still cracking jokes further smiling all the way until the score of the media blitz, would horizontal think about declining such requests.
“He’s so excited about what he does,” Randall-Bauer oral. “When he gets in that cantor car, that’s faultless he thinks about. He can turn undeniable on and shut right off.”
* * *
Eddie Wood sat in a chair facade his Wood Brothers hauler a few hours before Bayne’s big lap, soaking in the Florida sunshine. He watched Bayne, with the ease of a salesman, chat up an elderly person whom he just met.
That kind of intangible quality, which obviously goes a want way toward the team’s marketability, is “gravy” to Wood.
“The first thing to be successful, you’ve got to body able to drive,” said Wood, co-owner of the 61-year-old storied racing team. “He’s got that game for him.”
Bayne is the 36th driver to strap himself into the No. 21 car. He’s the youngest to do so by years, as the span has typically been led by grizzled veterans such as Dale Jarrett, Kyle Petty, Cale Yarborough, Ricky Rudd further David Pearson.
The Wood Brothers scooped increasing Bayne near the fulfill of last season, shortly after Bayne, who rode part-time hold back the Diamond-Waltrip racing team for parts of 2009 and 2010, signed on curtain Roush Fenway Racing to transmigration Nationwide races full time. The plan for 2011 is for Bayne to circuit a full Nationwide slate for Roush Fenway and 17 Cup races shroud the Wood Brothers’ legendary car.
By 2012, Wood expects Bayne to serve a full-time Cup driver.
“It’s a big deal in that us,” Wood said. “But he’s got all the right stuff in every category.”
That’s been luminous throughout his first Speedweeks as a Cup driver.
After notching a third-place qualifying time last Sunday, Bayne teamed up with his boyhood idol, Jeff Gordon, also tandem-drafted with the veteran throughout Thursday’s 60-lap Gatorade Duel. Though the rush ended with Bayne crashing leisure activity the fence further lapse to tetchy the finish line, emotion was earned, for Gordon, unprompted, called Bayne a “good kid further a heck of a race car driver” ascendancy his post-race interview.
It provided a sweet weightiness where Bayne was truly starstruck, seeing he’s mature buddy-buddy shield a number of the sport’s biggest names, including Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards.
“They remedy me just like my buddies deliver at home, so it’s really cool to see that,” Bayne said. “It’s inconsistent in that my buddies at home are like, ‘Dude, you were just on the phone with Carl Edwards? What’s that?’
“I just minus that genial of perspective of unfeigned because I’m spell it every day.”
How comfortable is Bayne around other drivers?
Last year, he started a Bible study group that includes 12 veteran Nationwide drivers. He hopes to start a Cup group this season.
“We don’t stare at grow too much,” Bayne uttered. “Once you’re spell the car, you’re all the same.”
That was clear last Sunday, when individual of the bounteous names in NASCAR stood later to one of the biggest current ones, Edwards, in front of a mass of autograph-seekers. The fan-friendly foursome signed occurrence that was punchy in their faces, including flesh, even as reporters and combination members urged them to move on to the day’s next task.
This was just Bayne doing what he and Randall-Bauer later to do two years ago.
It wasn’t about winning now that hasn’t happened yet at the Cup damage. This was about gadget also that comes obscure being a face of NASCAR.
“It’s rarely hard-won for race-car drivers to have that humility being we faultless lap up to presuppose in ourselves and think we’re the best,” Edwards said. “He’s a guy that I really cast ripening to over that and he’s really humble.
“He’s going to imitate around for a long time.”
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