NASCAR is in Las Vegas this weekend for the fifth of 10 races in the Championship Chase. 2-time champion Kyle Larson of Concord-based Hendrick Motorsports leads the standings after winning two of the first four races. He’s 26 points ahead of Denny Hamlin of Joe Gibbs Racing in Huntersville. The Chase comes to Charlotte Motor Speedway the following weekend, on October 11th.
Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.