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Virginia State Motor Sports Museum

Wood Brothers Racing Museum and Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame

Patrick County

Adopted in 1995

§ 7.1-40.2:2. Official motor sports museum.
The "Wood Brothers Racing Museum and Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame," located in Patrick County, is hereby designated the official motor sports museum of the Commonwealth.
(1995, cc. 12, 180.) Commonwealth

One of the most successful racing teams in NASCAR history, Stuart's Wood Brothers have won races on every major track in the country. Their Race Shop and Museum are located in the heart of Stuart. Adopted in 1995 as Virginia's State Motor Sports Museum.

Wood Brothers Racing Museum

Performance Drive, just of US Route 58 in the Town of Stuart in the Central portion of the County

Telephone: (540) 694-2121
Email: woodbrothers@neocom.net

Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame

Exerpt from
January 9th, 2003
Web posted by Charles Knapp

SOUTH BOSTON, VA --

The Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame will hold its first induction ceremony during the 2002 Big Daddy's South Boston Speedway Awards Banquet, scheduled for 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 25 at the World of Sports in South Boston, Va. The first inductees will be Virginia motor sports legends, the late Ray Hendricks and the late Wendell Scott. Both men will be represented by their families at the induction.

Hendrick, a legendary driver known for his hard-charging driving style, recorded hundreds of wins at South Boston during his storied career, many of them coming when he was piloting the famous winged No. 11 Modified coupe fielded by Jack Tant and Clayton Mitchell. The Richmond star won five track championships at South Boston, four of them while competing in the NASCAR Modified division and one in the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman division.

Danville, Va., native Scott was the only African American driver to regularly participate in the NASCAR Grand National (now Winston Cup) series. On Dec. 1, 1963, he became the first and only African American driver to win a Grand National race, with the victory coming in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1999, Scott was inducted into the International Motor Sports Hall of Fame in Talladega, Ala.

The Speedway announced its plans for the establishment of the Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame in early 2002 following Ward Burton's Daytona 500 victory. Burton's win marked the first time a Virginian had won the "Great American Race."

"After Ward's win at Daytona, we learned that Virginia did not have an organization that recognized Virginia's motor sports legends," commented Big Daddy's South Boston Speedway General Manager Cathy Rice. "Recognizing this void, we announced that we would organize a Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame to recognize and preserve the history of Virginia's motor sports legends, and at the same time, help Virginia's next generation of motor sports heroes."

The activities of the Hall of Fame will surpass just the induction ceremony, including the establishment of a Virginia Motor Sports Walk of Fame at Big Daddy's South Boston Speedway. Throughout the year, the Speedway will initiate numerous fund-raising events, with the proceeds distributed to up-and-coming Virginia racers. The Danville (Va.) Register and Bee will assist the Hall of Fame in its fund raising efforts.

The advisory board of the Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame includes four Virginia natives: Atlanta Motor Speedway General Manager Ed Clark; Barbara Bass of the South Boston-Halifax County Museum of Fine Arts and History; motor sports artist Garry Hill; and legendary Winston Cup car owner Junie Donlavey.

State Symbols

State symbols represent things that are special to a particular state.

symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun

Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century

1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.