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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 will make his open-wheel debut early next year. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n
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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 will make his open-wheel debut early next year. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n
The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver has landed a $40,000 scholarship from the Tony Quinn Foundation that will see him run the full four-weekend season of CTFROT.<\/p>\n
That includes the famous New Zealand Grand Prix at Highlands Motorsport Park.<\/p>\n
The deal will mark his first proper taste of open-wheel racing, his previous experience having been in Toyota 86s, Porsches and then Supercars.<\/p>\n
He is the latest Supercars driver to dabble in the series after Will Brown and Broc Feeney both made CTFROT appearances earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always been eager to compete in CTFROT ever since I first watched it back in 2014,\u201d said Wood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came really close in 2021 before COVID, so it\u2019s awesome to finally get a deal done this year with great backing from the Tony Quinn Foundation and so many others.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be competing in the New Zealand Grand Prix is a real bucket list race for me. I never thought I\u2019d get the opportunity, so it\u2019s super special to be racing in New Zealand\u2019s most iconic event.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also really cool to link back up with TQF \u2014 I\u2019ve been lucky enough to have their support before, but to now be racing in New Zealand at Tony\u2019s circuits with TQF backing is super special.<\/p>\n
\u201cDriving the FT-60 will be a whole new experience \u2014 I\u2019ve only driven an open-wheeler twice before \u2014 so learning something new will really help me in Supercars.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoing it in a Toyota before transitioning into the Supra for 2026 makes this an exciting way to start that relationship.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s about learning and making myself a better driver on and off the track for 2026 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Wood will make his open-wheel debut early next year. Image: Supplied The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,13401,1058,213,22210],"class_list":{"0":"post-112158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-ryan-wood","12":"tag-slot1","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112158","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=112158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}