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By: Kelly Crandall | January 18, 2019 6:00 AM Glen Wood, one of the founders of Wood Brothers Racing, passed away Friday morning at the age of 93.

One of NASCAR’s longest-running teams, WBR was formed by Glen and younger brother Leonard Wood. The organization has 99 victories in the NASCAR Cup Series and has fielded cars for some of the sport’s legendary drivers like Junior Johnson, David Pearson, and Cale Yarborough.

Glen Wood earned four wins as the team’s driver at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1960-1963. Throughout 11 years, Wood made 62 career starts. He also had five wins in 89 starts in the Convertible Series.

Glen Wood in 1967. (Image by NASCAR)

By 1964 Wood was finished driving and his focused shifted toward WBR ownership. Glen and Leonard are credited with developing orchestrated pit stops. As an owner, Wood and his family won the Daytona 500 five times (Tiny Lund 1963), Cale Yarborough (’6

, A.J. Foyt (’72), David Pearson (’76) and Trevor Bayne (’11).

Wood, who was named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998, was inducted in the third class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2012 (pictured, top).

“This is a difficult day for all of us at Ford Motor Company,” said Edsel B. Ford II. “Glen Wood was the founding patriarch of the oldest continuously operating NASCAR Cup Series team and we consider Wood Brothers Racing a part of our family, the Ford Family. The Wood Brothers race team, by any measure, has been one of the most successful racing operations in the history of NASCAR. Most importantly for our company, Glen and his family have remained loyal to Ford throughout their 69-year history.

“Glen was an innovator who, along with his family, changed the sport itself. But, more importantly, he was a true Southern gentleman who was quick with a smile and a handshake and he was a man of his word. I will cherish the memories of our chats in the NASCAR garage, at their race shop in Mooresville or the racing museum in Stuart. My most memorable moment with Glen was with he and his family in the No. 21 pit box watching Trevor Bayne win the 2011 Daytona 500 and the celebration that followed in victory lane.”

Len Wood, Donnie Wingo, Trevor Bayne, Eddie Wood, Glen Wood and Leonard Wood celebrate after Bayne’s Daytona 500 win in 2011. (Image by LAT)

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Glen Wood 1925-2019

Stuart, VA — Glen Wood, a pioneering driver and co-founder of stock-car racing’s longest-running team, died Friday (Jan. 1

at age 93. He had been the oldest living member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame after his induction in 2012.

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From humble beginnings in southwest Virginia, Glen Wood and his brother, Leonard, built a legendary racing operation that still competes in what is now known as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. The Wood Brothers Racing organization has 99 victories in more than 1,500 starts in NASCAR’s top division, fielding cars for an illustrious list of legendary drivers. Four of those wins belong to Wood, the team’s primary driver in its earliest years.

Wood scored all four of his triumphs in NASCAR’s top series at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. His success at the tricky quarter-mile track helped to earn him the title of “Master of the Madhouse,” a nickname that also acknowledged his dominance there in the featured Modified Division.

His driving days ended in 1964 as the sport continued to grow away from his favored short tracks to larger speedways. But he remained, with his younger brother, a savvy team owner, employing several drivers — David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Curtis Turner and A.J. Foyt among them — who would become legends in their own right.

The Wood Brothers team also became known for their part in modernizing the art of the pit stop, introducing a well-choreographed process for servicing their cars. The speed of their effort led to Ford Motor Company asking the Woods to staff the pit stops for the Lotus-Ford team and driver Jim Clark at the 1965 Indianapolis 500.

Their innovations reduced the time of the typical IndyCar pit stop at that time nearly in half, becoming a benchmark for how motorsports approached pit-road strategy. Clark won easily, leading 190 of the 200 laps.

Ford honored Wood in 1999 with its Spirit Award, the highest recognition in Ford Performance Motorsports, and was elected to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2002. He was also named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998, one of 20 drivers on that list to have driven for Wood Brothers Racing.