The youngest driver with the oldest team. A 20-year-old with a 60-year-old team. Who saw this coming? Trevor Bayne? Wait, doesn’t he drive Nationwide? We’re Facebook friends and I like his sponsor, OUT! Products for your doggies.
And this wasn't a bad way to celebrate his birthday, which was this week.
Jeff Gordon trusted him enough to hook up during the race and let him push the car. That says a lot for trust of a young kid on the track.
The young man has a pretty level head on his shoulders. He said he’s not going to splurge with the winnings and this isn’t the biggest thing that’s ever happened to him.
He said the biggest thing that’s ever happened to him was finding Christ. “He put me here for a reason, gives us purpose. These things (races and trophies) can go away, but He will never go away,” he told a room full of reporters after the race.
“I want to model myself after Jesus. I want to pattern my life after Him.”
“I’m not putting it (the money) up for retirement yet,” he said of the money. He mentioned Motor Racing Outreach and Back to Back Ministries in Mexico. “We’re going to them as much as we can.”
That’s commitment of his mind and his heart, and it’s nice to hear.
He’s not all seriousness, though. Hoping Mike Helton was listening somewhere, Trevor would like to discuss the possibility of changing that box he checked to get points in NNS, not the Cup.
“Jack (Roush) joked ‘You know if you win this, one of us is going to be mad.” Trevor races NNS for Roush Fenway and Cup for the Wood Brothers.
His popularity is already soaring. He gained 8,000 new followers in Twitter after the race. And he only packed a couple of things for the race, and drove himself to Daytona. Obviously, someone will take his ride home, because he’ll be on the talk show circuit for a day or two.
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