Threatening Weather Knocks Motorcraft/Quick Lane No. 21 Out of Coke Zero 400
- The Wood Brothers Racing Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion will not race in Sunday’s Coke Zero 400 because qualifying was cancelled at Daytona International Speedway due to threatening weather around the area.
- “We’ve been lucky,” said Eddie Wood, co-owner of the Wood Brothers Racing. “This is the first time this has happened since we started part time in 2009. We’ve dodged a lot of bullets, including last month in Michigan.”
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., July 4, 2015 – The Wood Brothers Racing Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion will not race in Sunday’s Coke Zero 400 because qualifying was cancelled at Daytona International Speedway due to threatening weather around the area.
When weather cancels qualifying, NASCAR sets the field according to the number of attempts teams make during the season. So far, the No. 21 has attempted and run in only six races in 2015.
“I really hate this for Motorcraft/Quick Lane and all of our guests,” said Eddie Wood, co-owner of Wood Brothers Racing. “We’ve been lucky. This is the first time this has happened since we started part time in 2009. We’ve dodged a lot of bullets, including last month in Michigan.
“This one got us,” Wood continued. “Even though it didn’t rain, it’s going to and lightning is a problem. Safety first.
“We’ll go ahead and get home a day early and get ready for Kentucky,” he said. “We control what we can control and we can’t control the weather.”
Driver Ryan Blaney echoed Wood’s comments. “Some stuff we can’t control and this is one of them,” he said. “This is the bad part about running part time. If this happens you’re out.
“It’s unfortunate we didn’t get a chance to qualify,” Blaney said. “We had a really fast Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion.”
Blaney’s machine was ninth fastest at 193.415 mph running alone in the second practice session on Friday.
“I was really looking forward to qualifying and getting into the race,” he said. “Our next race is Kentucky next week and I’m looking forward to that one.”
In the Blue Grass State for Saturday’s Quaker State 400 Presented by Advance Auto Parts, the Wood Brothers’s No. 21 car will be sporting Snap-On Tools livery for the first of two races this season. The next time it will be running in Motorcraft/Quick Lane colors is the Crown Royal 400 at the Brickyard, July 26, when it will be running the design of 8-year-old Maryn Winters of Basehor, Kan., who won the Race Car Design Contest for JDRF Presented by Motorcraft & Quick Lane.
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Wood Brothers Racing
Wood Brothers Racing was formed in 1950 in Stuart, Va., by Hall of Famer Glen Wood. Wood Brothers Racing is the oldest active team and one of the winningest teams in NASCAR history. Since its founding, the team won 98 races (including at least one race in every decade for the last seven decades) and 117 poles in NASCAR’s top-tier series. Fielding only Ford products for its entire history, the Wood Brothers own the longest association of any motorsports team with a single manufacturer. Glen’s brother, Leonard, is known for inventing the modern pit stop. The team currently runs the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion driven by Ryan Blaney in the famous number 21 racecar.
