Harrison Burton carries latest hopes of the once-great team to reach Cup win No. 100.
, and the incomparable David Pearson. The losing streak is depressing enough, but there’s nothing to suggest it will end anytime soon with Cup newcomer Harrison Burton.Leonard, left, and Glen Wood, right, enjoyed a great run of 43 wins in the 1970s with driver David Pearson.After all, the team was winless with eight drivers in 298 races between Elliott Sadler at Bristol in March of 2001 and Trevor Bayne at Daytona Beach in February of 2011.
Owners with deeper pockets, massive technical resources, research and development assets, and willing sponsors rule stock car racing. Back in the day, when on-track success came mostly from hard work, ingenuity, and mechanical wizardry, the Woods were as good as anyone and better than most. But somewhere along the way the little team nestled away in the Virginia foothills lost its edge. Even so, its 10-year technical alliance with Team Penske has helped in every way.
“People not in racing—people on the outside—don’t know how hard it is to win one of these things,” Wood said. “However hard they think it is, it’s two or three times harder than that. There’s always somebody good you’ve got to beat, whether it’s the Petty crowd or Junior Johnson or Hendrick or Bobby Allison. And back in the day it was Holman-Moody.“Even when we had Pearson , we never went to a racewe were going to win.
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