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Official page of Wood Brothers Racing. Longest active NASCAR team w/a Guinness World Record to prove it. 72 years strong. Account run by @_JonWood , so blame him

Stuart, Virginia
Joined April 2009
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
For IMMEDIATE release. Release it far and wide. Wrote a poem about it. Here ‘hit goes: Put on your shoes, Put on your hat.. Take a big deep breath, SURPRISE! We’re keeping MATT
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
It’s with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of team founder and family patriarch Glen Wood this morning. We want to thank family, friends, our small-town Virginia community of Patrick County, as well as everyone in the NASCAR community for their unwavering support.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Here’s one you weren’t expecting: Paul is stepping away from full time competition at the end of the season and @mattdracing will be taking over our @MenardsRacing @MQL_Racing Mustang, starting in 2020. Surprised eh?
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Wood Brothers Racing
7 years
IT HAPPENED !!! IT HAPPENED!!! PLAYOFFS !!! WE DONE IT
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
We surprised the Strader family with a once in a lifetime trip to the track. See their experience here! Enter here , for a chance to win a trip to Ford Championship Weekend in Miami. No purch nec. U.S. resident 21+. Ends 11/5/18. Click for rules #ad
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Skipping the update to reflect the penalty because as far as we’re concerned Matt finished 2nd. Semantics
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
We want to thank everyone for their messages of concern and support. As was mentioned yesterday, our Pa (Glenn Wood) isn’t in the best of health at present. He’s at home resting and we again just wanted to thank everyone for their kind words. It means the world to us! 🤝🙏
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
EIGHT THOUSAND LIKES. EIGHT..... THOUSAND..... last time we had EIGHT THOUSAND likes for a post was never. Granted, we had upwards of EIGHT THOUSAND messages/tweets/DMs/replies saying ‘keep matt’ but this is different because it’s EIGHT THOUSAND at once. EIGHT THOUSAND
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
For IMMEDIATE release. Release it far and wide. Wrote a poem about it. Here ‘hit goes: Put on your shoes, Put on your hat.. Take a big deep breath, SURPRISE! We’re keeping MATT
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Unbelievably sad day today after hearing of the passing of (one of) THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST #nascar drivers. We wouldn’t be here today without him and we’re thinking of the entire David Pearson family tonight.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
really proud of Matt. Proud of Paul for helping us pick him, proud of the crew and greg for making perfect calls today.
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Oh. My. God. What a race. What a drive by @mattdracing . Absolutely incredible. Just no other way to put it
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Well the bad news. We let you down. The good news is, you didn’t let us down. This is just impossible to believe. Thank you thank thank you. We’ll get there. 👍🏼
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Playoffs
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Matt fits in well with us. No plane, no motorcoach, just regular like we are. He’s out here in the TSA-like line with the common folk.
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
P2 WHATTTTT
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
Four generations of Wood Brothers Racing Seven generations of NASCAR race cars One @FordPerformance family
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
not a single bad thing to say about what just happened. they force us to race this way by having the final reg season race at a plate track. Matt did all he could and didnt give an inch getting blocked for the lead. proud of his effort. (we got bad damage)
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
We often times are told how incredible it is that our family all gets along. We owe the credit to family matriarch Bernece Wood so it’s with profound sadness that we had to say goodbye to her today. These things are never easy and we all experience grief, but it’s still hard.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Just gonna throw this out there and then call it a day. Nobody hates this worse than we do. We were on the receiving end last weekend and it sucked just as bad. Paul races cleaner than anybody and we sure hate to have been all up in this one. Real sorry it ended this way
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Probably should go ahead and issue our statement of regret for letting emotions run high and getting a touch mouthy over ‘the call’ Official Statement: We state our regret
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
Quick update on team co-owner Eddie Wood. He had a tiny little thing done called open heart surgery yesterday. It was a planned deal to repair a prolapsed mitral valve. He’s gonna shoot me for mentioning it, but he’s doing fine rn & we wanted to pass it along
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
So absolutely proud of this bunch. Trying to come up with all the right words. Great call to catch that caution, just a super good night and couldn’t be prouder of the race Matt drove. We came up short OF A WIN. So all in all, a good night
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Wood Brothers Racing
1 year
Which channel would you watch? FOX Discovery CBS ABC PBS TLC FX
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NASCAR on NBC
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Doing a little picture taking and video making up here at Wood Bros North. This is Gen 1 thru Gen 6. There’s 1 team that’s fielded the same number in every one. We might’ve felt like 🤡🤡 at some points but we made it work.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
More pics
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
September is a big month for @NASCAR . It’s also #SuicidePreventionMonth . Everyone has been touched by mental illness and there’s no reason we can’t talk about it. We’ll be running this scheme for the Vegas race. #BeThe1ToHelp and read more here:
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
the good news is Harrison's ok. nothing at all he could've done about that. brad was just trying to push and we all got a little aggressive. really hate it but glad he's ok.
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
We got a fun one this weekend. Our @MQL_Racing Mustang looking like an oldie.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Our @TooToughToTame throwback A hat tip to 1963’s 500 win and owner championship
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Next up on the agenda
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Here’s the Steve Kinser inspired @QuakerState scheme for this weekend. Getchasome 🔥🔥
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
One final shout out. Paul Menard gets the credit for coming in and helping build this team. It has only gotten better and better as time has gone on and there’s no way we’d be in this position to be excited about this season if not for him and what he’s done for us.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
STATEMENT ON THE COINCIDENCE OF OUR STALL FROM 2019 AND THE INVESTIGATION
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
hey. solid day. wasn't meant to be but you cant get bent over how that one shook out. really proud of Matt and this entire bunch. really fun one to watch. P6
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Leonard is happy. Lol
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4 years
This is Matt not keeping his head on his shoulders
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
For our @TooToughToTame #Throwback we will rewind back to when Harrison was minus 8 days old when papa @JeffBurton last ran these colors in the great state of Martinsville. The year was 2000 and we had all barely survived Y2K. Close one. A neat @deximaging scheme fosho
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Daytona time
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Hello. It’s Damndest Sight Wednesday. Here’s you’re damndest sight for today
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@woodbrothers21
Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
In a @Dickies @MenardsRacing scheme this week. So silky smooth
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
2nd week in a row a backmarker affects the race. Hope the dudes ok but that was a mistake you don’t make in cup
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Close. But no cigar. Missed it by 19 years. 🤔
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Daytona International Speedway
5 years
The longest running, continual team in NASCAR. 50 years. Wow! Congrats @RCRracing . We can’t wait to celebrate this milestone at the #DAYTONA500 ! #RCR50 | #DAYTONA500
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Wood Brothers Racing has purchased the remaining interests in GGRWB, LLC, holder of NASCAR Charter the No. 21 Mustang has used since 2017. We look forward to 2021 and want to thank Archie for being such a great partner.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
One of the original Wood Brothers, Ray Lee Wood passed away overnight. Brother to Leonard and the late team founder Glenn Wood, Ray helped shape our team to become what it is today. We’re all in trying times but please remember his sister Crystal and the rest of our family.
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Wood Brothers Racing
7 years
And we did it like a bunch of backward a** cavemen. Lol. Radios? We don't need no stinking radios!
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Proud and honored to have David riding with us one last time. #nascar
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
2 points to make. 1. Happy Newman is seemingly bouncing back to normal B. We finished 19th, only 2 laps down with this very wrecked and very damaged and very barely rolling Mustang 3. @mattdracing is a blast to work with and did a great job for us D. We somehow finished 19th
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
probably best for the safety of the drivers and fans and everyone at home that we just go ahead and call this one complete. we dont need anyone getting hurt or killed. or worse.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Happy 85th to the smartest guy you know or don’t know. Makes no difference, still the smartest. You done good @Leonard_Wood . 💥🍺🎈🎉🎊
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2 years
Definitely not the most idealest of places to put a yellow and blue flag but it is there, nonetheless. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
It’s not enough that Leonard can build some amazing things, he has to test drive them too. This is a mini-replica of my @MartinsvilleSwy race winning truck. The body was a scale carbon fiber wind tunnel body used by @FordPerformance . He’s 84 by the way.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Just not gonna be the same without this guy. He had such a unique and special history with Daytona that absolutely nobody will ever come close to attaining (71 consecutive Speedweeks). The coolest part though is he wouldn’t tell you about it unless you asked.
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
Mannn. Proud of how Harrison ran that race. 42 should be scraping concrete off his eyelashes if karma worked but sometimes it don’t
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
Waited until we knew fosho we didn’t have any issues with the crash repair. We’ll start 8th on Sunday and not need a backup or drop to the tail at the start. 👍🏼
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
One last thank-you and send off to this guy. We’ve been blessed these last few years and hate to see him go. That said, we’re excited to start our next chapter in #nascar racing. We have a few, that’s for sure. (The most in the sport, but who’s counting)
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
It’s strange too how much we hoped this would work out, now feeling bad for Jimmie. And truly, right now I feel bad for Jimmie
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
. @Blaney I told Leonard what you tweeted. Haha
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Matt DiBenedetto was going to win that race or bring back a pile of pieces. I’m convinced. We just cannot help 800 caution laps past the regular distance. No way to have predicted this
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
We see the Darlington throwback weekend a little differently. For us, we’ve got endless schemes to pick from. It’s more about honoring the driver and not a rainbow, so for that reason, we chose Cale Yarborough’s 50th anniversary win scheme for this year’s Southern 500!
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
how did we finish 444444th./???? wow. I know how but still. This one was a hard fought day. had good stops, we made our Dickies Mustang faster, NOW GO BUY THE DIECAST SO IT GETS MADE !!! lol
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY UNREAL... Matt D is absolutely unreal. he restarted 20th. 4 wide and 2 laps later is running 10th. P8 right now but that was the most impressive driving that none of us have ever seen (they didnt show it lol).
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
**PLEASE READ** We’re trying to buy up a bunch of tablets so our local nursing home residents are able to video-visit with their families. Read the attached note and the link to help/buy a signed thank-you from Matt & us is below.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
This is unrelated to anything, but pretty amazing. We’ve mentioned before that Leonard was in the Army during the early racing years and sent my grandpa (Glen) setup info in letters. This was I’m guessing for the @DISupdates 500. So much random history here.
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
Wishing a very happy birthday to superstar Leonard Wood. 270 years among these three siblings. It’s cause they eat green beans and healthy stuff. Example: spam, canned pork and beans, Lance crackers and the like
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Went on a field trip yesterday
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3 years
Turn 6 bleachers where the party’s at. No nudes but it’s early
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Loss for words. Just a total loss for words here. Had a 7th/6th going there until that at the end. Not taking the blame and not placing it either. We had a killer points day til that though. MAN
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
Exactly 61 years ago today, Leonard was drafted into the Army. He would write down ‘setups’ (if you call it that) and mail them back to brother Glenn. And here we are 61 years later.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
I mean rules is rules. Like getting nailed for running 67mph down the interstate. They didn’t catch us running 100 a mile before, so whatever. Y’all don’t care about the money, points don’t matter, so we can just pretend he finished 2nd and call it a day.
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Our Suicide Prevention Mustang looks even better in person.
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4 years
Lookie here
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
Out of the hospital and seemingly back to normal. As normal as you can be when you’re held together with wires and stuff. Thanks for all the well wishes and nice words over the past week.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
P11 for the day. Really proud of these guys. Matt drove a great race, Matt made good calls, Matt did a great job spotting, Matt did a great job changing his tires and he did a good job back at the shop. really proud of all these guys and the effort!
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Really sad to hear about the passing of Sam Bass. He was so much more than ‘just’ an artist. He made art that helped make the sport and he will be missed by so many.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Paul’s helmet for Speedweeks. It’s got the storied beech tree Glenn and Leonard originally worked under. You can see the engine hanging from a branch. (Bottom right)
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
That was an unreal string of laps Matt put together. Just can’t believe how he drove from 20th to 3rd in like 10 laps. Totally unreal. Pucker up time on the points situation. That’s gonna make it increasingly hard to make the playoffs but one thing at a time.
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
Also we ended up 5th, not 6th. So... first top 5 of the season and Matt’s 2nd top 5 consecutive talladega finish. (Yep, went there. Still salty over the last trip here)
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Wood Brothers Racing
7 years
Still shots of the throwback scheme for Darlington. You can make posters out of them, throw darts at them, whatever u want. 'Murica
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Back in the popular @QuakerState colors this weekend @ISMRaceway . Yessir
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Not something you see everyday. Lining up for the Stuart parade. That’s Leonard driving if you can’t tell. (Leonard being the badass) ((and the Backseater too I guess) 🚗🏎🚛
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Wood Brothers Racing
6 years
stenhouse gonna win this race tonight. one way or another.
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Jeff Gluck asking how this stayed quiet. we were just trying to make sure that today was the day to talk about it so once it got finalized we just didn't talk about it. it was fun keeping it quiet and fortunately it stayed that way.
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You know you’re a tough dog to keep under the porch when you’re the only (well plus me anyway but I’m a schmuck) one on the plane to go to vEgAs! Leonard Wood don’t play no games.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
I think a lot of people underestimate just how hard it is to run top 20 in a cup car. you can dominate in other series, and hopping to cup is a humbling experience. this isnt directed at anybody in particular, just a statement in general. cup racing is hard
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Wood Brothers Racing
7 years
BIG NEWS! We'll be back full time again in '18, with Paul Menard. We're excited about that, and our continued affiliation with @Team_Penske !
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
insane. an absolutely insane drive from like near Ohio on that restart to finish 5th. we had some bad ones today but the last one is the one that counted. congrats to Blaney too.
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Wood Brothers Racing
2 years
Little bit of old mixed with a little bit of new. We couldn’t get crazy, but we did have to make a few tweaks. Here’s our 2022 @MQL_Racing Mustang. @HBurtonRacing you ready?
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Been sitting on this one for a while but I think now is a decent time to roll it out. **soon**
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Wood Brothers Racing
5 years
Jordan bianchi asking if Matt was the first choice. We asked Paul who to get. Paul said Matt. so he was the obvious and only choice. most things drag on forever but this one fell together super quick
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Only comment we’ve really got on this whole single lug thing, it’s not the end of the world. There’s a video NASCAR did showing a pit stop with the lug and how the mechanics of the stop really don’t change much.
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
13th to close out the day. man we really came alive at the end. we did get fast so thats important moving forward. shame we missed it the first portion of the race but a 13th on a bad day aint that bad
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
One final time this year.
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Wood Brothers Racing
3 years
P12 with no sway bar and the right front damage, that’s something to be proud of. Really impressive how these guys stayed with it. 👍🏼
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Wood Brothers Racing
4 years
Another big surprise in store for later on this week. SHEEEEEET METAL!!!
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4 years
OMG IM DEAD!! 😂😂😂
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