To celebrate 75 years worth of memories, the legendary Wood Brothers Racing team will be celebrated throughout the summer with “Wood Brothers Wednesdays” on The NASCAR Channel.
Wood Brothers Racing has been around since 1950, when Glen and Leonard Wood teamed up to pioneer a legacy that has transcended time.
Glen was behind the wheel of their car at Bowman Gray Stadium in 1960 and took the Wood Brothers Racing team to Victory Lane for the first time. The team scored its 101st NASCAR Cup Series victory in 2025 when Josh Berry took the checkered flag at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Bookending those victories were triumphs from Daytona to Darlington to Rockingham and everywhere in between. Twenty of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers have piloted a car for the team throughout their storied history, one that is well worth celebrating.
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This Wednesday’s content will feature two pieces of NASCAR original content, including “Untold Stories with Leonard Wood.”
With the NASCAR Cup Series visiting Dover Motor Speedway this weekend, the team’s history at the “Monster Mile” will be on the schedule, with “Survival of the Fastest: Wood Brothers Racing — Dover” airing.
The team has made 87 total starts at the track, and its success there was imminent with David Pearson behind the wheel. Pearson won three consecutive races at the track between 1972 and 1973. His dominance included leading 1,011 of the 1,500 total laps raced. He also won again in 1975 and 1978.
Neil Bonnett took over the No. 21 car and promptly won his first start with the team at Dover in 1979. Bonnett triumphed at the track once again in 1981 for the team.
The team’s first 14 races at the track resulted in six victories, four runner-up finishes, a third-place finish and a fourth-place finish. Wood Brothers Racing’s only two finishes outside of the top four over that span occurred after mechanical failures, both in races where Pearson started third or better and led laps (September 1974, September 1975).
Overall, the Wood Brothers team has led over 297 laps at Dover six different times.
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