48 THE OFFICIAL NASCAR 2020 PREVIEW & PRESS GUIDE TEAM PREVIEWS
WOOD BROTHERS RACING
2020
TEAM DRIVER
Glen Wood Eddie Wood Len Wood
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Wood Brothers Racing holds the Guinness World
Record for the longest active NASCAR racing team.
They are the oldest continuously operating NASCAR
Cup Series team and the team has always raced
Ford products.
2020 marks the sixth year of competition in the
NASCAR Cup Series for Matt DiBenedetto and his rst
year with the longest-running Cup Series team, Wood
Brothers Racing and the iconic No. 21 Ford Mustang.
Beginning in 2015, Wood Brothers Racing formed
a technical alliance with Team Penske and they will
continue that partnership with DiBenedetto at the helm
of the No. 21 while they compete for their 100th Cup
Series win.
By the age of 13, DiBenedetto had moved to North
Carolina and in the years following he competed on
several occasions racing late models, when he was
noticed by Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) in 2008. In 2009,
JGR gave DiBenedetto the opportunity to run in their
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East car in seven events for
the organization. DiBenedetto won two events that year
at Tri-Country Speedway and Loudon, along with three
poles in his rst year. JGR also put DiBenedetto in one
of their NASCAR Xnity Series (NXS) cars that year at
Memphis International Raceway. 2010 through 2014
saw the Grass Valley, CA native make 50 starts in both
NXS and the ARCA Menards Series.
Matt DiBenedetto