Wood Brothers Racing celebrates the start of their 1,000th race this weekend and will sport the colors of the team’s founder, Glen Wood. The solid red racecar flashes back to the 1950’s when Wood owned and piloted the famed Wood Brothers racecar. Glen Wood founded Wood Brothers Racing as a hobby, now it’s their life and has been for the past five decades. He and his brothers decided they wanted to go racing and nominations moved that Glen be the driver. Since the team’s origination, Glen has won as a driver, car owner and grandfather over the past 50 years. His list of driver’s speaks for itself with 17 of NASCAR’s 50 greatest drivers listed on the Wood Brothers Racing resume. Elliott Sadler currently pilots the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford and is delighted to be able to represent the team in such a memorable year(Cox Marketing Group), see an image of the car in the Paint Schemes Gallery(9-26-2000)
