New challenge for Wood
Ex-british Touring Car racer Lea Wood is weighing up a return to tin-tops in
2019 after three years in the Pickup
Truck Racing Championship.
Wood, who finished second to
Scott Bourne last year and Freddie
Lee in 2016, is eyeing a new challenge.
One that has caught his eye is the
Touring Car Trophy, a series launched by Stewart Lines for two-litre turbocharged touring cars.
“I’m looking at my options for this year,” said the 2013 BTCC Jack Sears Trophy winner. “There’s a few irons in the fire.
I’ll be going to Autosport International to see what’s going on there.
“The only thing that strikes me as being quite interesting is the Touring Car Trophy. It does appeal to me and it’s had a lot of interest and I’ll certainly be looking at that closely. Stewart Lines has set all of that up and I know him well.
We’ve had a chat about it.”
Wood praised the Pickup series, citing reliability issues as the reason why he did not achieve his goal of taking the series title in 2018. “It’s a great championship and organisation, but I felt like I’d done my three years and we hadn’t won the championship like I hoped we would,” he added.
“It was disappointing with the
Ford engine, as that’s let us down badly this year. People who are in the Pickup Championship know that it cost us the championship.”