Being co-owner to a family operated race team, Len Wood whole heartidly comprehends Petty Enterprises deecision to take on an outside investor.

"We need a teammate," said Wood, who thinks it's imperative to grow his team beyond a single-car Cup operation and believes a cash infusion would only be part of the answer.

The recipe to getting a teammate is locating a partner that would fit. Wood is not sure as to what the precise fit would be, in opposition to the Pettys.

"I don't know what that looks like," Wood said. "I don't know that it needs to be an investor. I'll call it a teammate. … If it took an investor to put a couple of us together, that's OK.

"We need somebody we can share with. The hardest thing (in trying to be competitive) is we don't have anyone to bounce anything off — a teammate we can ask, 'What did your car do?' Someone you know what their suspension is, what their bump stops are, what spring and shocks they've got on it."

In 2001 Elliott Sadler collected the Wood Brothers last to date victory at Bristol Motor Speedway. Amassing a total of 96 victories in NASCAR’s top level, before Sadler’s in 2001, Wood knows the organization needs some production.

"I know our performance hasn't been where it needs to be," Len Wood said. "If we could find an arrangement, we'd be open to that. We talk to a lot of people all the time about what direction we should go and where we need to take our team. We've been around for 57-58 years. We want it to be around for our kids. Both Eddie's son Jon and my son Keven drive in the truck series and we want to continue that."