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Ryan Wood faces Supercars Finals elimination after Gold Coast race
Ryan Wood finished 14th at the Gold Coast 500, a rain-hit Supercars Finals race, after losing pace in its second stint.
The Walkinshaw TWG driver started 10th and ended a lap down, leaving him 60 points behind the elimination cut-line.
His teammate Chaz Mostert won and secured a place in the next Finals round at Sandown.
Walkinshaw TWG suspects differences between wet-tyre batches may have caused the pace swings, though the team has not confirmed the cause.
CEO Bruce Stewart said the team will examine whether the tyres or a car setting was responsible.
Wood must reach Sandown either through points or by winning to stay in contention.
Ryan Wood faces possible elimination from the Supercars Finals after finishing 14th, a lap down, in the Gold Coast race.
He is ninth in the standings and 60 points behind the elimination cut-line.
His team suspects differences between wet tyre batches may have contributed to his loss of pace in the second stint.
Teammate Chaz Mostert won the race and secured a place in the next Finals round at Sandown.
Wood started 10th after hitting a kerb sensor in the Top 10 Shootout.
- Who
- Ryan Wood, driver for Walkinshaw TWG.
- What
- He finished 14th in the Gold Coast race and faces possible elimination from the Supercars Finals.
- When
- Saturday, October 24, 2026.
- Where
- The Gold Coast; the race was the opening event of the Gold Coast 500.
- Why
- He lost pace in the second stint. His team suspects differences between wet tyre batches may have contributed.
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Wood hit a kerb sensor in the beach chicane and started the race from 10th.
Wood held his position at the back of the top 10 in the rain-hit race.
Wood lost pace and eventually finished a lap down in 14th.
Mostert secured a place in the next Finals round, while Wood remained ninth and 60 points behind the elimination cut-line.
- Wood’s finish
- 14th, one lap down
- Wood’s standings position
- Ninth, 60 points behind the elimination cut-line
- Wood’s starting position
- 10th
- Race winner
- Chaz Mostert
- Next Finals round
- Sandown
What people are saying
I don’t know if it was a bad batch or something, but he just couldn’t switch the tyres on.
In the second stint, pressures were in the zone and temp was pretty good. But he was a second half off what Chaz could do.
We’ll have to forensically go through and understand what’s happened there, if it’s a batch or we had a setting wrong.