Wood steps back from Pickups and targets tin tops
Ex-british Touring Car racer Lea Wood could return to tin tops in 2019, leaving the Pickup Truck Racing Championship after three full years of competition.
Wood has finished second to Scott Bourne (2018) and Freddie Lee (2016) in the championship, and is now eyeing a new challenge.
Wood is looking at the Touring Car Trophy, a new series launched by Stewart Lines for 2019 aimed at 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 the Autosport Show 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 have had a chat about it.”
Wood praised the Pickup series, citing reliability issues as the reason why he didn’t 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.”