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 the team’s car in 1960 at Bowman Gray Stadium and took Wood Brothers Racing to Victory Lane for the first time. The team scored its 101st NASCAR Cup Series victory in 2025, when Josh Berry earned 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 its storied history, one that is well worth celebrating.
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This Wednesday’s content will feature two full races, both coming from EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway).
The first full race of the week will be the 1993 Motorcraft Quality Parts 500. This race was originally delayed by a major snowstorm and was postponed from Sunday, March 14, to the following Saturday afternoon (March 20).
The snow arrived after cars had already hit the track for the first round of qualifying, leaving the field set by all of the drivers’ first-round speeds.
Morgan Shepherd, who was behind the wheel of the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers Racing, started seventh. The 51-year-old driver entered the race with three career victories; two of them came at EchoPark.
The combination of Shepherd and the team’s previous success at the track paid off as Shepherd took the Wood Brothers team to Victory Lane. As the laps passed by, Shepherd heeded the advice from his crew and saved as much fuel as possible to stay out front.
It was the fourth win of Shepherd’s career and the team’s 12th checkered flag at the track.
The 1981 Atlanta Journal 500 from EchoPark will be the second full race available to watch. This race, the 30th on the 31-race schedule, saw Neil Bonnett take the No. 21 machine to Victory Lane for the third time that season.
Bonnett dominated the event, leading a race-high 200 laps en route to victory. The team showed lots of speed over the final seven races of the season, notching three wins and a fourth-place finish along the way. Bonnett led 135 laps or more in four of those seven races.
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