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By Team Release
January 30, 2008

HARRISBURG, N.C. -- Wood Brothers Racing announced it's partnership with The Barnhill Group, LLC as a primary sponsor of the No. 21 truck for eight races commencing in February at Daytona International Speedway. Jon Wood, third generation driver for Wood Brothers, will be driving The Barnhill Group Ford F-150.

The Barnhill Group, headquartered in Orlando, Fla., is a general contracting company that focuses its efforts on new construction and expansion of manufacturing plants, distribution centers, schools, and sport arenas among many other projects. TBG self performs all concrete services for major projects around Florida and the southeast and specializes in tilt-up concrete services.

Their relationship to NASCAR is not entirely new. TBG designed and built the fan zone viewing area above the garages at Daytona and built the concrete placements for suite additions at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The company plans to utilize this partnership with Wood Brothers Racing to continue building relationships with other tracks.

"I enjoy the sport and working with the tracks. I plan on gearing my business towards being a specialty type contractor for all of a NASCAR track owner's needs," Randall Barnhill, president of TBG said. "It's a privilege to be a small part of one of the most respected teams in NASCAR and I'm truly excited about working with the Wood Brothers."

"The Barnhill Group is a welcome addition to our team. We are elated to have them on board and have high hopes to help them achieve their business goals," team owner Eddie Wood said.

In addition to the eight races as a primary sponsor, The Barnhill Group, LLC will also be an associate sponsor on the No. 21 Ford F-150 for all other 2008 Truck Series races.

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PCGCampbell For Ford Racing, Press Release

The No. 21 Ford has been a fixture at the Daytona 500 since co-founder Glen Wood ran the inaugural race in 1959.

It’s amazing, in a sport that has experienced so many changes, that a few things have stayed the same. Fifty years ago, on February 22, 1959, 59 cars lined up two-by-two to take the green flag at NASCAR’s inaugural Daytona 500 run on Bill France’s brand new 2.5-mile super speedway.

Starting eighth, behind the wheel of a No. 21 Ford, was Glen Wood, brother of Leonard Wood and co-founder of Wood Brothers Racing. Fifty years later, that same Wood Brothers Racing team is competing in the 2008 Daytona 500, fielding a Ford Fusion with the familiar No. 21 emblazoned on the door panels.

The Wood Brothers are legendary in the sport of stock car racing and the longest continuously operating team in NASCAR history. Founded in 1950, the Woods have earned 97 victories, the fourth highest total among Sprint Cup teams. True Ford Motor Company loyalists, they have raced nothing but Ford, Mercury and Lincoln vehicles from day one.

Glen Wood recalls the first time he set eyes on the Daytona International Speedway. Wood had cut his racing teeth on NASCAR’s quarter- and half-mile dirt and asphalt bullrings, his only speedway experience was a single run at the 1.4-mile Darlington Raceway, which was nothing like Daytona.

“Well, I thought we were running around the county,” said Wood. “It was unbelievably large at the time. You could see all the way from the tunnel through to the first and second turns, without anything – like buildings – being in the way. It was quite a shock to walk in there and see that big of a track.”

The Wood Brothers first raced at Daytona was 1953 on the old 4.1-mile Daytona Beach and road course, competing in the sportsman and convertible division races until the February event was moved to the new track in 1959.

“I liked the beach course,” said Wood. “For some reason or another, we finished every race we ever ran there. You just ran down the highway, it was like driving fast on the street, and, of course, you had to slow down, and it was like a dirt track at both ends. Then you got out on the ocean and just breezed down that for two miles, looking around at the birds and whatever, and you passed cars who threw sand and water on your windshield.”

The Daytona International Speedway was different. With its steeply banked corners, drivers could run their cars wide open at speeds of better than 140 miles-per-hour. Glen Wood ran the ’59 race in a 1958 Ford convertible, one of 19 convertibles that ran alongside the hardtops in the combined race.

“You didn’t know how fast the car would run on what was really an open highway,” said Wood. “The stock cars were in the 140-something bracket, and the convertibles, with the top off and just the windshield sticking up, were about 10 miles an hour shy of the hard tops. I had the fastest convertible. I sat on the pole for that. But, it was such a difference in the two – it was like running a Legends car against the others, almost.”

Glen Wood went on to finish 34th in the inaugural Daytona 500, dropping out after 149 laps with a clutch problem, marking the end of his superspeedway driving career.

“I just didn’t like it,” said Wood. “Maybe I would’ve liked it better had I been in a hard top. But with the wind, it was like riding a motorcycle, as far as the wind blowing around, and I didn’t particularly like it. I never drove there again.”

Wood Brothers Racing continued to field cars at Daytona for drivers like Speedy Thompson, Joe Weatherly and Curtis Turner. The team earned its first 500 win in 1963 with driver DeWayne “Tiny” Lund. They won three more Daytona 500 trophies; in 1968 with Cale Yarborough; in 1972 with four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt; and in 1976 with three-time NASCAR Champion David Pearson, in what Wood, and many others, still consider the most exciting Daytona finish ever.


Pearson’s Wood Brothers Mercury passed Richard Petty’s Plymouth on the backstretch of the last lap of the ’76 race. As Petty tried to move around Pearson coming out of turn four, as they raced to the checkered flag, the two cars touched and turned sharply into the outside retaining wall, skidding back across the track and into the infield.

As Petty tried frantically to re-start his Plymouth, Pearson limped his badly damaged Mercury across the finish line to win the race.

“One of the reporters asked David afterward if he was mad,” Wood remembers, “and he said, ‘No, but I was fixing to be if I hadn’t won.’”

The Wood Brothers have signed on two-time Daytona 500 winner and 1988 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Bill Elliott to pilot their No. 21 Ford Fusion when the green flag drops for the 50th running of the Daytona 500. And Glen Wood will be there, just like always.

“I have been to Daytona every year since 1947,” said Wood. “And I would kind of hate it to miss this one.”


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