A Salute to Wood Brothers
Submitted by NASCAR Eclectic
Glen & Bercece Wood.
Glen Wood founded the legendary Wood Brothers Racing team in 1953, he’s been awarded one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers and was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2002.
What’s so interesting about this organization is they are the oldest continuously team owners in NASCAR. Glen’s brother Leonard came on and guided this team through the 70’s and 80’s with driver’s like Donnie Allison, Neil Bonnet, Cale Yarborough and even open wheel sensation A.J. Foyt. Today the likes of “Awesome” Bill Elliot drives for them as well as funny guy Ken Schrader.
Not much is heard about this team today with so much focus on the big 5, HMS, RCR, DEI, JGR and ROSOX, but it’s quite possible that this oldest team in the garage may have some big muscle left towards the future. Glen Wood’s grandson, Jon Wood is an up and coming driver as well as Marcos Ambrose and Kelly Bires. These 3, if they stay at Wood Brothers/ JTG Racing, could be a powerful force in the near future. The organization manages to maintain good sponsorship with Little Debbie, Ford Motorcraft and the Air Force and I like some of those Motorcraft and Airforce paint schemes alot!!
I just wanted to give this group a salute and hope the best for their whole organization into the future, afterall they are up against some big guns that are only getting bigger.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 4:01 am
Wow! Now I know! Well, good luck to them and may these grandchildren of Wood be a successful NASCAR drivers someday