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High Series
Vaynes made his High Series debut in 2003 for Su Motorsports in the No. 84 car. He drove at Bowman Gray, Canadian Tire, Richmond and Rockingham. Vaynes was dominating at Rockingham before, with 34 laps remaining, his engine blew. The team fixed the engine but by then they were already 20 laps down and had no hope of winning. Vaynes drove the car up to 30th from 34th in 14 laps, even unlapping himself once. He finished 30th, 19 laps down. At Richmond, he got his one and only career High Series pole, but fell early, and, by the halfway point, he was 7th. However, they made an adjustment to his car on lap 300 and were able to get to 4th with 20 to go. He had race-winning speed but didn’t have enough time to catch eventual race leader Bryan Borsch, and finished 2nd. At Bowman Gray, he got dumped by Bob Post and finished 39th. At Canadian Tire, Vaynes led 55 laps and finished 3rd. He was 2nd when on the final overtime restart, got the lead and was leading with 1 lap to go before getting the bumper from Stevie Johnson, who won the race. Vaynes got put in the wall and finished 3rd. Vaynes returned to the team in 2004 for Richmond. Vaynes struggled all day and finished 11th. In 2005 he attempted a race for Byron Racing Enterprises at Daytona, but rain washed out qualifying and he DNQ’d. He was absent the next five years to focus on Low Series. In 2011 he returned to Su’s team for Auto Club, Iowa and Bowman Gray. He only finished in the top 10 once, a 3rd-place finish at Iowa. At Auto Club he got collected in a wreck; the same happened at Bowman Gray. Vaynes had set himself as a fairly insecure driver who usually crashed cars and did not get a ride for 2012 or 2013. In 2014 he ran Charlotte and Watkins Glen for KD Motorsports. He finished 10th at Charlotte and 2nd at Watkins Glen, his home track. In 2015 he was to return to KD for the full schedule but was released due to sponsorship problems after 6 races and the team folded. His only two top 10’s were at Daytona and Pocono, finishing 5th and 9th. Vaynes and Michael Lawrence Motorsports partnered up to make ML’s High Series debut at Watkins Glen. Vaynes was out due to engine issues after 80/90 laps (while leading) and finished 29th. Vaynes and MLM teamed up for the 2016 Daytona 500. After starting 40th and finishing 14th, Lawrence announced a tentative schedule for Vaynes & the team in the #81 and #94. It included: Atlanta (#94, CarQuest Auto Parts) Kansas (#81, CarQuest Auto Parts) Nashville (#81, Lucas Oil) Talladega (#94, PEAK AntiFreeze) Auto Club (#81, Lucas Oil) Canadian Tire (#81, CarQuest Auto Parts) At Atlanta, Vaynes started 5th and finished 10th. At Kansas, he started 9th, led 15 laps and finished 7th. At Nashville, he wrecked early to finish 38th. At Talladega, he finished 2nd only behind Mike Emory. At Auto Club he led early and finished 5th and at Canadian Tire he made contact with Kirk Shaman and had to get repairs. When back on the racetrack, he intentionally wrecked Shaman, leading him to get parked. He finished 37th. In 2017, Vaynes only entered 3 races, all with MLM. Those were Talladega, Daytona and Auto Club. He made it up to 2nd at Auto Club, 21st at Talladega and 14th at Daytona. In 2018, Vaynes announced he would not be returning to High that year, and MLM has not entered any races since. In 2020, he drove the #79 Ford in replacement of Oliver Cobb at Richmond, finishing 13th. In 2021, Vaynes announced that he would be on standby for the #12 Chevrolet driver of Ryan Braun at the second Dover race, as Braun was experiencing sickness. Vaynes ended up getting in the car on lap 14 after Braun pulled into the pit lane; whoever starts the race in NASCAR is credited with the finish. Vaynes finished 16th, 2 laps down, scored in Braun’s favor.