Ryan Wood
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Nov 12, 2026
Dwayne RussellHOST
I was lucky enough to go out the other day out to Sandown and go for a hot lap with a couple of guys that are absolute legends.
Dwayne RussellHOST
They're from the Walkinshaw TWG racing team, of course, and one of them is the young gun, the superstar, Ryan Wood, joins me on the show.
Dwayne RussellHOST
Ryan, hello to you, mate.
Ryan WoodGUEST
G'day, mate.
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Ryan WoodGUEST
Thank you, mate.
Ryan WoodGUEST
Cheers.
Dwayne RussellHOST
Ryan Wood there, 22 years old.
Dwayne RussellHOST
22 years old, if you don't mind.
Aaron NoonanHOST
On part two, we talk a bit more modern stuff, a bit more current.
Aaron NoonanHOST
We talk about supercars racing and the supercars that he actually owns, how he came to back Ryan Wood and how he came to fly in to part of Walkinshaw TWG, as it's now known.
Aaron NoonanHOST
And we also will delve deeper into an event that's close to his heart, the biannual George Begg Festival.
Aaron NoonanHOST
That's where we're going to start this part two of my chat with Scott O'Donnell.
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Aaron NoonanHOST
So we should cover too, by the way, as part of this.
Aaron NoonanHOST
So you mentioned Mustang and a Commodore.
Aaron NoonanHOST
So the Mustang that Ryan Wood drove, we've got to talk the Ryan Wood story at some point here too.
Aaron NoonanHOST
The car that he's been racing in Gen 3 the last couple of years finished.
Scott PyeHOST
Everyone's going to have these conspiracy theories and it's the format.
Scott PyeHOST
And poor Ryan Wood, his integrity was brought into question last year because immediately everyone's like, shit, did he fence him? Because the format would have encouraged it.
Elliot BarbourHOST
Yeah.
Scott PyeHOST
So, yeah, I think our category doesn't really work like AFL does where there's only two people on the field.
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Scott PyeHOST
But that's worked out to be, I think I had 18 points.
Scott PyeHOST
Yeah, 18 points.
Scott PyeHOST
So when he was at Gold Coast and he backed off to help Ryan Wood, he gave up trying to pass Brodie for P2 at Gold Coast.
Scott PyeHOST
Had he passed Brodie for P2 and selfishly just driven his own race and they just went, you know, Chas, go for the win, he would actually be going into Adelaide with 18 more points and closer to the championship.
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And in silver, you come in and you're not going to race a Brock Feeney.
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You're not going to race a Ryan Wood.
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You're going to race the young and up-and-coming drivers.
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And you can go and race and race hard.
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all grow up.
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It's so cool.
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Ryan Wood was my second one.
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Really? Callum Hedge was my third
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
Motor racing is expensive, right? You know, these cars, they beat himself up on track.
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
You know, you look at Chas and, and Ryan Wood on the weekend at Bathurst, it was $500,000 worth of damage to those two cars.
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
So, um, you know, when we looked at investing in the sport, we realized we needed to own it a hundred percent.
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
We needed to, that would enable us to then create the strategy, invest in the growth and pay the teams to race.
Stephen McIvorHOST
Thanks, Robbie, and welcome Sidetrack into the Inside Line.
Stephen McIvorHOST
And speaking of Sidetrack, coming up next here on this week's edition of the Inside Line, brought to you by Mount Shop, our feature interview, it'll be owner of Ryan Wood's supercar team, Scott O'Donnell.
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Stephen McIvorHOST
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Best under pressure.
Stephen McIvorHOST
Well it's another critical weekend in supercars, Repco supercars because it's the Sandown 500 and as always we keep an eye on the Kiwis and of course Ryan Wood and the TWG Walkinshaw Supra.
Stephen McIvorHOST
Well one of the owners, and this is the cool part about it, is a Kiwi.
Andrew van LeeuwenHOST
The first session was topped by Jaden Ojeda, ahead of Brodie Kostecki, Thomas Randall, Matt Payne, James Golding, Cooper Murray, David Reynolds, Will Brown.
Andrew van LeeuwenHOST
Ryan Wood and Chas Mostert.
Andrew van LeeuwenHOST
And the second session was topped by Matt Payne, Brock Feeney, from Brock Feeney, Cooper Murray, Andre Heimgartner, James Golding, Ryan Wood, Anton DiPasquale, Ojeda, Will Brown and Brodie Gostecki.
Andrew van LeeuwenHOST
First session, what happened? What went on there? Ah, that was the Jack LeBrock...
Andrew van LeeuwenHOST
drop gear session so msr realized pretty quickly that they'd left the wrong drop gear in jack lebrock's car uh he returned to the pits after a couple of laps to have that rectified didn't go back out but you've breached the rules and he ended up being disqualified for it yeah it normally doesn't take them too long to work it out
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
Motor racing is expensive, right? You know, these cars, they beat himself up on track.
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
You know, you look at Chas and Ryan Wood on the weekend at Bathurst, it was $500,000 worth of damage to those two cars.
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
So, um, you know, when we looked at investing in the sport, we realized we needed to own it a hundred percent.
Barclay NettlefoldGUEST
We needed to, that would enable us to then create the strategy, invest in the growth and pay the teams to race.
James PaveyHOST
Mostert, he won his way through to Sandown with that victory on the Saturday.
James PaveyHOST
But Ryan Wood had a lot to do on the Sunday.
James PaveyHOST
And Chas Mostert was always going to have a role to play for Ryan to make it to Sandown.
James PaveyHOST
As it stood, Ryan was out.
James PaveyHOST
So Chas, in third, dropped back to the tune of about 11 seconds to try and let Ryan Wood get enough points to make it through.
James PaveyHOST
As it were, some pit stops helped Anton Di Pasquale get back ahead of Ryan in the points.
James PaveyHOST
But team order, Zach, it was a big call to make for Walkinshaw TWG Racing.
Zac DowdellHOST
And there's a very strong argument to say that it was to gap the field the way he did, but...
Jack PerkinsPANELIST
I don't hate it, but like I said, the optics of it when you're surrendering 10 seconds on track.
Jack PerkinsPANELIST
If you've not watched last year and you knew that Ryan Wood helped his teammate win the championship, you don't really understand why Chas is doing that.
Jack PerkinsPANELIST
It's a very tricky situation.
Jack PerkinsPANELIST
It's hard to ban it because the drivers can certainly take things into their own hands, but you just don't want it to get in the way of pure entertainment.
Aaron NoonanHOST
They are employees or contractors to the team.
Aaron NoonanHOST
So I think this is where you also, and you make a really great point, that there's kind of that two groups of audience that you're kind of wrestling with, dealing with.
Aaron NoonanHOST
You've got the hardcore tragics who absolutely know the Ryan Wood story last year and how he helped Chas Mosta to win the championship and he was rear gunner at Sandown and he did what he did at Adelaide and all the stuff that played.
Aaron NoonanHOST
Then you've got, let's call it the Bathurst audience that kind of just tune in once or twice a year and and go, car racing, this is interesting.
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