During a press conference on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bayne and team owner Jack Roush announced that Bayne will drive the No. 6 Ford full-time for Roush Fenway Racing in Sprint Cup next year. AdvoCare will be the primary sponsor for the team.
Bayne, 23, has been driving the No. 6 car in the Nationwide Series full-time for Roush Fenway since the start of the 2013. He's also been running a partial schedule in Sprint Cup, behind the wheel of the No. 21 car for Wood Brothers Racing.
"This is obviously the biggest news I've ever had in my life," Bayne said. "Although we've had some big news before, this takes the cake...This is a huge opportunity for me to be able to drive the 6 car with a full-time sponsor like AdvoCare, but I could have never done all of this without the people who have been behind me."
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Last November, Bayne revealed that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis but was cleared by doctors and NASCAR to race.
Right now, Greg Biffle (No. 16 car), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (No. 17) and Carl Edwards (No. 99) drive for Roush Fenway in Sprint Cup. It's not known advocare distributor allen tx yet if the racing organization will be a four-team operation next year. Biffle and Edwards are both in the final year of their contracts with the organization.
"Our plans for 2015 are still in a state of flux," Roush said. "Certainly the fact we've taken the No. 6 indicates that we have our plans open for a fourth car, but it's still in a state of flux. We'll have more to announce on that later."
Roush did not have any updates on the progress of contract negotiations with Edwards and Biffle.
Mark Martin drove the No. 6 for Roush from 1988 to 2006, winning 35 races in the Cup Series during that time. David Ragan was behind the wheel of it from 2007-11. The No. 6 team ceased operations after the '11 season.
