{"id":10916,"date":"2025-09-09T03:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/10916\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:53:09","slug":"supercars-news-king-of-blow-ups-helps-ryan-wood-move-on-from-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/10916\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: \u2018King of blow-ups\u2019 helps Ryan Wood move on from spat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRyan Wood. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Wood is moving on from a highly publicised Ipswich spat with Will Brown, which involved two in-race clashes, cool-down lap contact and a string of fiery radio messages.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver was penalised for spinning Brown during the race \u2013 an incident that appeared an over-zealous attempt at a retaliatory bump following earlier contact.<\/p>\n

While Brown was the instigator of the post-race clash, Wood clearly lost his cool, at one stage yelling across towards his rival before adding the driver \u201cgot what he deserved\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the saga via the Formation Lap ahead of the AirTouch 500 at The Bend, Wood said the experience of his mentor Murphy has once again been invaluable.<\/p>\n

\u2018Being a peanut\u2019: More details of fiery Wood, Brown clash emerge<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to learn and improve and there\u2019s no better person to lean on when it comes to hot head conversations,\u201d said Wood of Murphy, whose career was peppered with confrontations.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe definitely gave me a reminder and I definitely said, \u2018well that\u2019s a bit rich coming from you Murph\u2019. [But] it\u2019s been good to have him in my corner and be able to pull me up on stuff like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the king of blow-ups but I feel like he\u2019s probably taken a lot away from that and been able to try and pass some of that knowledge to me to handle those situations a little bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clash with Brown overshadowed a Queensland Raceway event in which Wood scored a pair of podiums and cost crucial points as he fights to remain in a Finals slot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got it wrong. My reaction was probably moreso frustrated with myself and took it out with words that probably shouldn\u2019t have been spoken,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ll look back on and try and better myself for next time. It\u2019s always nice when you can speak your mind but at the end of the day, I feel like a few things were uncalled for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Greg Murphy and Ryan Wood. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Brown indicated in the days after the event that he\u2019ll look to settle the score with his rival at a later date, noting that \u201cif you let it slide, he\u2019s going to think he won.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Although keen to move on, Wood admits what happens next might be out of his hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess he\u2019s got the next move, to be honest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe obviously said a few things after QR, which is fair enough. It cost him valuable points, and it cost myself valuable points, so it\u2019s more frustrating for both of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a few convos, probably just one convo that we both took something out of, which is good, but at the end of the day, I hope me and Browny and can move on from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were good mates and I feel like we still are. He\u2019s an awesome rooster and someone I get along with on and off the track.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, racing\u2019s racing. Especially when you don\u2019t mean to do something on purpose, I feel like sometimes it makes it a bit more easy to get over.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see what the next state of play is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wood currently sits ninth in the Supercars standings ahead of the Endurance Cup, where he\u2019ll share the #2 Truck Assist Mustang with Jayden Ojeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Wood. Image: Supplied Wood is moving on from a highly publicised Ipswich spat with Will Brown, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13400,111,139,69,13401,1058,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-10916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-greg-murphy","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-ryan-wood","13":"tag-slot1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}