Officers from Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta (MRRA) introduced at the moment that the legendary Wooden Brothers Racing household will function the Grand Marshals for this 12 months’s Mitty, which options Historic Inventory Vehicles on the forty fifth working of HSR’s oldest race, April 27 – 30.
Based in 1948, NASCAR marks its seventy fifth season in 2023, and the Mitty might be only one a part of the year-long NASCAR 75 celebration.
“It’s an unbelievable honor to have the Wooden Brothers be a part of us because the Grand Marshals of our milestone forty fifth HSR Mitty at Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta,” mentioned HSR President David Hinton. “Wooden Brothers Racing has been in existence practically so long as NASCAR itself, and we will’t consider a better option for Grand Marshal of the forty fifth Mitty than this household owned and operated crew that has raced constantly for greater than 70 years. Their presence as they preside over the forty fifth Mitty will put the crowning contact on a race weekend that might be one of the memorable in HSR historical past.”
Based and established over 70 years in the past by Glen Wooden, who partnered together with his youngest brother Leonard Wooden from the crew’s inception, Wooden Brothers Racing holds the Guinness World File for the longest lively NASCAR racing crew. Wooden Brothers Racing is the oldest constantly working NASCAR Cup Sequence crew and has received races in seven many years, together with the crew’s 99th and most up-to-date victory at Pocono in 2017 with Ryan Blaney.
After Glen retired within the late Eighties, the crew was taken over by his sons, Eddie and Len. The brothers will characterize the household as the first Grand Marshals on the forty fifth Mitty, with the likelihood that their now 88-year-old Uncle Leonard – who constructed engines and engineered the crew’s lightning fast and now legendary pit stops – may make an look. Glen Wooden handed away in 2019 on the age of 93.
“On behalf of Wooden Brothers Racing, we’re honored to function Grand Marshals for The HSR Mitty at Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta,” Len Wooden mentioned. “We’d wish to thank Jim France and Mike Helton in addition to everybody on the HSR employees. We consider ourselves as custodians of NASCAR’s and our circle of relatives’s historical past and The Mitty is a superb instance of showcasing that very same historical past.”
Included in Wooden Brothers Racing’s 99 profession wins is 5 victories within the Daytona 500. Tiny Lund (1963), Cale Yarborough (1968), AJ Foyt (1972), David Pearson (1976) and Trevor Bayne (2011) all drove a trademark No. 21 Wooden Brothers Ford to victory within the “Nice American Race.”
“Len and I first went to an HSR race a number of years in the past to look at Jim Farley, the President of Ford Motor Firm,” Eddie Wooden mentioned. “We had been fascinated by all the previous automobiles that we thought had been misplaced in historical past. We have now our personal museum in Stuart, Virginia that has classic race automobiles in addition to a number of replicas of our previous automobiles. Between our museum and our automobiles on the NASCAR Corridor of Fame, we now have greater than a dozen several types of race automobiles.”
Historic Inventory Vehicles have been a serious half the previous few years of every HSR weekend at Michelin Raceway, however this month’s seventy fifth NASCAR Anniversary celebration is drawing a big entry of iconic stars and NASCAR automobiles. Saturday’s Historic Inventory Vehicles Function Race is the on-track spotlight of the weekend’s full schedule of on and off-track occasions.
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