By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—The Wood Brothers had fallen on hard times. The most venerable race team still operating in the sport, Wood Brothers Racing hadn’t seen victory lane since Elliott Sadler beat John Andretti to the checkered flag at Bristol in March 2001. In recent years, the Woods have been more concerned with qualifying for races than with winning them. But in winning Sunday’s Daytona 500 in a car painted like the machine David Pearson raced in the team’s glory days, Trevor Bayne provided both a glimpse of the past and the window to a brighter future. “We struggled so much in the past couple years just to make the Daytona 500, much less win it,” an emotional Eddie Wood, team … Read entire article »