The low point was three years ago at this very place, when the Wood Brothers failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 for the first time in more than four decades. They were outside the top 35 in driver points, they lost a gear in pole qualifying, and they didn’t finish high enough in their qualifying event to make the sport’s biggest race. It felt, team co-owner Eddie Wood said, like somebody had died. Walking around the garage area afterward, other competitors would drop their gazes rather than look him in the eye.
“Until you go through it,†he said, “you can’t put it into words.â€
For a proud organization that predates NASCAR itself, it was a devastating moment, and  … More
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