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The Wood Brothers Racing Team was founded in 1950 by brothers from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Walter and Ada Wood, who owned a farm near Woolwine and Stuart, Virginia, had five sons—Glen, Leonard, Delano, Clay, and Ray Lee—and one daughter, Crystal. [1]
Panch was to drive a Wood Brothers car in the 500. [3] The win was Lund's first victory of the season. [4] Jim Cushman, Bubba Farr, Dick Good, Ted Hairfield, and John Rogers retired from professional stock car racing after this event. [5]
The 1963 Daytona 500 was won by Tiny Lund driving a 1963 Ford. Lund drove his number 21 to victory in three hours and 17 minutes. Lund, who was driving for Wood Brothers Racing, filled in for Marvin Panch who was suffering from injuries after a fiery crash.
Speedy Thompson was the first driver to wheel the famed No. 21 Ford to victory lane for Wood Brothers Racing way back in 1960 with a win at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The drought finally ended over ...
Wood Brothers Racing: Laps: 76: Winner; No. 21: Cale Yarborough: Wood Brothers Racing: The 1968 Daytona 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series race held on February ...
He returned to the Wood Brothers in 2011 for a limited schedule. He won the first race of the season, the Daytona 500, to become the youngest winner in Daytona 500 history, at the age of 20 years and one day. [3] This was the Wood Brothers' first win since the 2001 season when Elliott Sadler won at Bristol. [17]
Berry, who is a 33-year-old Cup series rookie this season, will drive the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford on a multi-year deal beginning in 2025. Berry drives the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford ...
Third-place finisher Jim Vandiver (and fourth-place Benny Parsons) was six laps/15 miles behind the winner, fifth-place James Hylton was 9 laps/22.5 miles behind, sixth-place Cale Yarborough was 12 laps/30 miles or 6% of the race distance behind, and 10th-place finisher Vic Elford was 18 laps/45 miles or 9% of the race distance behind Foyt.