Wood Brothers Racing, which fields the #21 Ford for Matt DiBenedetto in the NASCAR Cup Series, is the sole owner of the charter it has used since 2017. The race team bought the remainder of the charter from Archie St. Hilaire, owner of Go FAS Racing.
“Wood Brothers Racing has purchased the remaining interests in GGRWB LLC, holder of NASCAR charter the #21 Ford Mustang has used since 2017,” a statement from Wood Brothers Racing read. “We look forward to 2021 and want to thank Archie for being such a great partner.”
St. Hilaire’s team, which fields the #32 Ford, is scaling back to a part-time schedule of five or six races in 2021.
Charters guarantee full-time Cup Series teams starting positions in all points-paying races. Thirty-six charters are in existence.
Wood Brothers Racing, the oldest team in NASCAR’s top series returned to full-time competition after several years of partial schedules in 2016. The #21 team ran as an “open” or unchartered team in 2016 before leasing the charter it now owns from Go FAS in 2017. Wood Brothers bought into the charter the following year.
Matt DiBenedetto will drive the #21 for a second season in 2021 before 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Austin Cindric joins the team in 2022.
