Wood Brothers reveal Blaney's No. 21 Virginia Tech car

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Ryan Blaney‘s No. 21 car will feature a special Virginia Tech football paint scheme this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, and Wood Brothers Racing unveiled the look on the gridiron Monday morning.

Racing’s “Last Great Colosseum” is host to the Tennessee-Virginia Tech college football game on Sept. 10., and the No. 21 team is helping get the party started early.

Hokies coach Bud Foster poses with Leonard Wood and the VT car Friday.

“Virginia Tech has been a big part of the Wood Brothers for a long, long time,” said Leonard Wood, who helped his brother, Glen, found the race team in 1950. “We’ve been friends with Coach Foster and just met the new coach [Justin Fuente]. I never dreamed when my daughter was going to Virginia Tech that we’d have a race car on the practice field here at Virginia Tech. It’s just awesome.

“That ‘VT’ on the hood just jumps out at you and I love the color combination. It’s one of my favorites.”

The Virginia Tech scheme also will run at the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 held Oct. 30 at Martinsville Speedway, and Hokies junior wide receiver Cam Phillips likes the Ford’s look.

“You’ve got colleges and you’ve got football teams, but Virginia Tech is our hometown college team. We pull for them all the time,” Leonard Wood said. “Hopefully they’ll win. We’ll be racing in Richmond on the night of Sept. 10, the night that they’re playing in the Battle at Bristol, so we won’t be watching the game, but we’ll be paying attention. We’ll be watching Twitter.”