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Wood Brothers Family Named Grand Marshals For Goodyear 400

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Wednesday, 02 April 2025 07:26

DARLINGTON, S.C. Darlington Raceway announced the family of the Wood Brothers Racing team will serve as the grand marshals for the Goodyear 400 this Sunday.

Celebrating their 75th anniversary alongside the Track Too Tough to Tame, the pioneer team of the NASCAR Cup Series will say the most famous words in motorsports ahead of the main event of The Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR.

As we celebrate 75 years of racing at The Lady in Black, its only right we also recognize the same achievement for one of the most storied teams in our sports history with the Wood Brothers, said Darlington Raceway President Josh Harris. Few organizations have garnered as much success throughout NASCAR, and particularly at Darlington Raceway. Were grateful to celebrate each other and fire off the Goodyear 400 with a family of legends.

Since their first of 104 starts at Darlington in the spring of 1961, the Wood Brothers stand as one of the most successful organizations to have ever competed at the 1.366-mile venue. The team has amassed a total of eight wins across three drivers in three different decades.

David Pearson, a native of Spartanburg, S.C., captured four of those wins in the tracks spring event in 1972 (his first start for the team), 1973, 1974, and 1976 along with two Southern 500 victories coming in 1976 and 1977. Fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer and Timmonsville, S.C. native Cale Yarborough scored one Southern 500 win for the Wood Brothers in 1968 while Neil Bonnett notched the teams most recent win at Darlington in 1981.

Wood Brothers Racing, founded in 1950 from Stuart, Va., sits as the oldest active team in NASCAR while holding one of the winningest resumes in the sports history. The organization currently sits at 101 total wins after Josh Berrys victory earlier this year at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

They have been accustomed to visiting Victory Lane across eight decades while winning 120 pole awards in the process. A grand total of 22 of NASCARs 75 Greatest Drivers have at one point driven for the famed team.

Founder, owner, and former driver Glen Wood began working alongside his brothers Leonard, Delano, Clay and Ray Lee building race cars under a giant beech tree on the family homestead in Buffalo Ridge, Va. His sons Eddie and Len have taken over as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the team, respectively, while their younger sister Kim serves as the Chief Financial Officer. Eddies son Jon Wood was named Team President in 2024, and his daughter Jordan Hicks works as the Chief Marketing Officer. Lens son Kevin Wood is the Team Executive Vice President and ensures the No. 21 Ford is ready for competition each Sunday.

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