Bob Osborne

For six months after he graduated, Osborne spent day and night knocking on doors trying to land a job with a NASCAR team.Osborne worked for the team for one year, never relying on his engineering degree but knowing that his time and patience would eventually pay off.Osborne started out as a general R&D data acquisition engineer where he worked at the shop traveling only to tests for the first two years of his Roush Racing career.Although both were rookies, the team never missed a beat and Osborne coached Edwards to a 10th-place finish in his first career Cup start at Michigan.2005 Osborne and Edwards picked up in 2005 where they left off in 2004, breaking into the win column in just the fourth race of the year in Atlanta.The duo also gave the competition a run for their money in the Chase finishing third in the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series points standings.On August 4, Edwards announced he had signed a multi-year deal keeping him at Roush with Osborne as his crew chief.2015 On January 6, 2015, Roush Fenway Racing announced that Bob Osborne would be returning to the top of the pit box to be crew chief for 2011 Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne in his first full-time season with the organization in the No.In 2016, Osborne joined Front Row Motorsports to be the crew chief of Roush development driver and 2015 Xfinity Champion Chris Buescher.
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