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The Wooden Brothers usually are not simply surviving, however thriving with Berry
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The Wooden Brothers usually are not simply surviving, however thriving with Berry

By Miles Cooper March 18, 2025
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Wooden Brothers Racing is the oldest lively staff in NASCAR, having competed within the sport’s high stage because the early Fifties. They have been there as the game transitioned from a small native collection to a nationwide spectacle, racing on the seashores of Daytona and later the excessive banks, however the iconic No. 21 automobile almost disappeared from the observe fully not so way back. Throughout the Nice Recession (2007-2009), they have been pressured to run a partial schedule simply to remain in enterprise, at one level solely doing 13 races via the 12 months and popping out with little to point out for it. However as an alternative of fading into the pages of historical past like each different staff from their period, they persevered. They remained. 

Sadly, it looks like persevering and surviving was nearly all of the single-car staff has been capable of do lately. However not. With Josh Berry behind the wheel in 2025, they’re shortly turning into a legit contender amongst a aggressive subject. Sunday’s win in Vegas did not really feel like one other one-hit surprise. It felt like this family-owned and operated staff discovered Victory Lane, and is able to discover it just a few extra occasions.

Berry is an ideal match for the Wooden Bros

It is the primary time since 2017 that the Wooden Brothers claimed a win on a non-drafting observe, and the primary time since 1986-1987 that they’ve gained in back-to-back seasons. And the important thing to all of it was the choice to rent Josh Berry, who took the exhausting path to the Cup Sequence and has a humble background appears to slot in completely with this underdog staff.

“I feel Josh suits us,” stated staff co-owner Eddie Wooden in an interview after Sunday’s victory. “Miles [Stanley, crew chief] suits us. All the things simply suits. I used to make enjoyable of individuals years in the past once they would discuss chemistry. Soccer groups, baseball, all that. Then it sort of bled over into racing. This goes again just a few years.

“When issues click on, they click on. I have been doing this since I used to be a child. I used to be there when David Pearson and Leonard Wooden, my uncle, connected. That clicked immediately, like proper off the bat.” 

The Wooden Brothers usually are not simply surviving, however thriving with Berry

Josh Berry, Wooden Brothers Racing Ford, Eddie Wooden

Picture by: Jonathan Bachman – Getty Photographs

It is fairly the comparability to make, as Pearson is liable for 43 of the staff’s 101 victories together with 11 throughout a single season [1973].

“This seems like the whole lot is clicking,” continued Eddie. “It feels good to win the hundredth one final 12 months with Harrison [Burton]. It was good for him, good for us to get that one, really to get it. Now to get the subsequent one is only a actually large deal to us. Actually particular.”

Not simply one other Penske automobile

And whereas some equate the No. 21 to simply one other Penske automobile resulting from their technical alliance, Jon Wooden [son of Eddie, grandson of Glen] takes subject with that perspective. Because the social media admin for the staff, he sees all of the feedback from these able to pile it on when issues go fallacious and fast to offer credit score elsewhere once they go proper.

“After we suck, it is our fault,” stated Jon. “However after we do good, (they are saying) we had nothing to do with it. It is 100% Penske or one thing. I feel that is [the] irritating half. These are our guys which might be doing this. We sat in a room and debated who our subsequent driver can be for 2025. It is Josh Berry. These are choices that we made collectively. It is our race staff and our determination.

“I am most likely hypersensitive as a result of I am not simply an admin that, like, laughs it off and would not care as a result of I acquired my paycheck for the week for doing social media. It hurts somewhat bit once I see that stuff. However then this occurs and the outcomes converse for themselves. I have never actually needed to be tremendous crappy on social these days, defend ourselves. He is simply doing it. That is the neat half.”

Josh Berry, Wood Brothers Racing Ford; Daniel Suarez, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Josh Berry, Wooden Brothers Racing Ford; Daniel Suarez, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Picture by: Chris Graythen – Getty Photographs

A brand new golden age for the No. 21?

The outcomes actually do converse for themselves. In simply 5 races, Berry has equaled or surpassed the season totals for high fives and high tens earned by the No. 21 throughout every of the final three seasons. Berry has additionally led extra laps in these 5 races than the No. 21 staff did within the earlier three seasons mixed. Vegas definitely would not appear to be a fluke, however a part of an upward trajectory that instantly correlates to bringing this grassroots racer to the staff.

“Via the years we have been via so many ups and downs,” stated Eddie. “This sport’s identical to each different sport: There’s extra downs than there’s ups. Once you do get in place to be lucky sufficient to have the ups, you actually respect it.

“In racing, it is all the time subsequent week. You bought one other week. You bought one other alternative to show issues round in the event you’re not doing nicely.

“That is how I feel we have survived this lengthy, is simply you by no means surrender, you by no means stop, and also you simply hold going to the subsequent race. Rapidly issues will begin constructing. You keep on the nook lengthy sufficient, will probably be your flip ultimately. That is sort of the way in which we’re.”

Josh Berry, Wood Brothers Racing Ford

Josh Berry, Wooden Brothers Racing Ford

Picture by: Jonathan Bachman – Getty Photographs

It definitely seems like Eddie is correct and that the No. 21 goes via a resurgence of kinds. It is uncertain they’re going to be shortly written off as a first-round exit on this 12 months’s playoffs like they have been one 12 months in the past, and it is doubtless not the final we have seen of them contending for race wins this season both. And that may be the subsequent achievement to unlock because the Wooden Brothers have not skilled a multi-win season in 44 years. Neil Bonnett was the final to drag it off, successful three races, over 4 a long time in the past, in 1981.

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