April 15, 2026 • 11 mins
Ryan Wood's eager to prove success his in Taupō was no fluke when he gets back behind the wheel of his Toyota at the maiden Supercars event in Christchurch.
Four races will be staged across the weekend, including a postponed race from last week's weather hampered stop in Taupo.
Wood picked up his second career victory and a third placing across the two races that were completed.
Wood told Mike Hosking they’ll find out tomorrow if his momentum from last Saturday will pull through to this weekend’s races.
“If there is momentum, then I’ll be trying to use it. I’ve still got confidence, so we’ll see how it goes.”
“At the end of the day, I don’t overthink it, just go out there and drive.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Upside of the Supercars is that the rude weather interruption
of last Sunday will be put right this weekend in
christ Jurich. We got four races to make up for
at first ever races of course for the South Island,
which is super exciting. The man going into the weekend
with all the momentum is of course Ryan Wood, who
has won his second ever Supercars race in Tapo, his
first in New Zealand and the first win for Toyota itself.
(00:20):
So all in all, it was very good weekend. Then
came Sunday and it was all off. So hopefully things
change this coming weekend. Ryan Woods with us anyway, Ryan morning.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good morning mate, how are you very well?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Indeed, how's your season gone so far? I mean the
weekend itself was good, a third in a win. You
couldn't have asked for a lot more than that, could you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, Look, it was a great weekend, great points which
is really important for us. And yeah, obviously a win
at home was really cool and really focused on this
weekend now, so yeah, got to make the most of
the opportunity at hands.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
How big a deal was it for Toyota.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Massive, I guess you know, they're the biggest OEM in
the world and they've got to Yeah, they've got to do,
you know, a good job when they bring out a product,
and that's that's what they've done. And yeah, I'm so
proud to represent them, and the package that they've given
us has been really good, and yeah, so cool to
(01:23):
get the job done for them. And there's success I've
had straightaway is yeah, pretty impressive to be honest, talk
us through.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So for people who don't follow supercars, toya to have
come into it for the first time. You've got a
new car, you got to emuligate the whole thing, et cetera.
How do you sort a new car out from what
you had previously, which was a Mustang?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It obviously starts with a lot of design work and
from then on it it's just it's vision. It's putting
in what they think is right into into real life.
And look, everyone's done a great job at that. And yeah,
very proud to be driving the car that we are
(02:08):
and look it's been pretty fast straight away, So yeah,
I've done an amazing job. Obviously a lot of work
goes to the wind tunnel, a whole engine program and
a lot of that was done in the UK, so
they've done a massive job.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I don't know if this makes any difference to you,
but I reckon the Toyota is the best looking of
the three cars on the track. What do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I might be a little bit biased, but yeah, so
do I reckon? The Super looks pretty pretty angry and
stands out very well. So they've done an amazing job
of keeping that road car to race car. Feel about it?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
What did you make of Sunday when the weather came
through and they can't well on Saturday they can Sunday?
Were you disappointed in that because you're on a roll?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Looked they had to do what's right for you know,
everyone safety, and I think they made the right call.
So at the end of the day, there's you know,
people's lives that could have been at risk, and that's
more important than going going racing, So I think they
made the right call. And yeah, I'm glad no one
got too hurted. You know, obviously what ended upcoming wasn't
(03:17):
probably as bad as we thought, but at the same time,
you would rather be safe than sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
How did the whole movement of the city. Do you
pay an interest to ask questions about this. How did
the whole movement of the supercar stuff go from Taupo
to Christy, you know, the containers, the ships, the whole thing.
How's that gone? Has that gone smoothly?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well? Everything's here, so I don't know too much about it,
but yeah, I think everyone's found it quite a cool experience.
Obviously a lot of work for all the teams, but yeah,
at the end of the day, that's why we were
like a traveling circus.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, is it vastly different? You're out of a container
really when you're on the road, aren't you. Has there
two styles in New Zealand being that much different from
any given weekend or any two weekends in Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Not really, it's just racing as usual. We just don't
have our truck, so we'd just going the container and
work out of there and that's about the only difference.
So it's pretty normal. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do you believe in momentum? Giving your success Saturday? Do
you take that and move it into this weekend or
is the gap to you know another word, to start
from scratch again?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, I hope I believe in momentum. Will find out
tomorrow I guess if there is momentum, and then I'll
be trying to use it. I've still got confidence, so
we'll see how that goes. But yeah, at the end
of the day, I don't ever think it. Just go
out there and drive.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Good on you. What do you know about Ruepoona? How
much time on the simmer you spent?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Ah? Weep it, but drove here back in the day
and looking forward to getting that into it. About to
hit out to track this afternoon and you know, get
amongst it. It's going to be good. Can't wait to
get out there. Track's awesome, tight, and I can't wait
to see all the fans out there as well.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What's the forecast?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hopefully, Sonny, we'll be right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We had Ryan Matt Payne on last week and I
asked him, I'll ask you the same question. I asked him.
You've got to win, so it sort of discounts you
to a degree. Would you rather win a championship or
have some wins? In other words, if you could win
the championship without ever winning just podiums, would you do
that or would you rather have the wins?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Probably win the championship.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Even if you came second every time?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, I guess, so gives you the big trophy at the.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
End, I guess. So the places work me through how
this works. So so far I've got your twenty one, seven, five, seventh, third,
eight teenth, twenty first, third and one. So how come
some weekends it's eighteen, some weekends it's one.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Eighteen.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
There's been a few heck cubs the last couple of
bad ones, weren't they're not? I guess you know, real
if that makes sense, we we're probably running inside the
top ten when those happened. But honestly, it's just it's
it's so hard to be consistent each weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So you know, it's about just making sure the car's
in the window.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And yeah, it's a hard job, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's what makes the sports so exciting, because that's the
reason I asked. You just can never tell. And the
gap between first and third and eighteenth is next to
nothing at the end of the day. As far as
the A lot of people want me to ask about
Greg Murphy. What's he done for you? To explain easy meeting.
You've taken him on as a mental what's he done
for you?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
He's done lots. He's a realist.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
He's been straight up and down with me and he's
just helped develop me into a better driver on and
off track and understand what comes with all the success
and and you know, trying to work harder than your
opposition and making sure that you turn up to the
track fully prepared. So yeah, he's been massive and to
(07:27):
have him there on the weekend was really really special.
So he's going to come down this weekend and hopefully
I can make him proud again.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
What's his role in your Is it a day to day,
week to week thing or is he wants every now
and again you touch base thing? Well, how does it work?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's a bit of everything, to be honest, he's day
to day.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He's just my all rounder, to be honest. He's Yeah,
he's massive.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
He's he takes care of you know, conversations, all that
sort of stuff as well.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And yeah, he's been massive, physical.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Or mental or both. I mean, did you need to
kick up the ass? Is that was that the problem?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You needed a little kick up the jackson and Murphy
was the man to do it for you.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, one hundred.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
He's been great and at trying to steer me in
the right direction. And there definitely was a time where
I needed to have a good, hard look at myself
and yeah, he helped me with that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
So he's been massive.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And was that hard work for you to transform yourself
or not?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's always hard work, but it's what I needed and
if I wanted to be a better racing driver, that's
what I needed to do.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So yeah, because he's no nonsense, glad I did it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
He's no nonsense, no, no, no nonsense.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And yeah he's he's just you know what you've got
with Murph and he's very very straightforward.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, you lost it. And once again for people who
don't follow closely, you lost a tremendous amount of weight.
You dropped from one ten to eighty five. I didn't
realize it was quite that much. Just in terms of
getting in a seat in a car and in a race,
especially in an endurance race. What difference did that make?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It definitely helps with your concentration and being you know,
I guess, more confident in yourself, and yeah, it's just massive.
It's it's definitely something that helped me take my career
to the next level.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And yeah, it's been massive to help me.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Just know that when I do want to knuckle down,
and you know I always try and put one hundred
and ten percent, but that is extra a little bit
each day.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
It's really worth it. So it's it's pretty.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Cool, fantastic. Where's your growth trajectory? You got your third season?
Now are you on a trajectory to get better and better?
And bet? Over what period of time do you think
you're traveling? And how good can you be? Do you think?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I hope one day I can sit here and chat
to you as a batist champion and a champion of
the championship, and hopefully when the jar trophy this weekend,
hopefully that that's the conversation we have and yeah, I
feel like I could do those things.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, just see how it all goes.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Good on you mane well, good luck this afternoon and
looking forward to the weekend as well. Nice to catch up.
Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Go well, thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Good on you man. Ryan Wood, who is with Walkin Shaw,
comes off of victory. Brody Pisseki got the other win
of the two races last weekend. But we wish and
well and everyone at Ruapuna they say they're going to
break records this weekend. Normally a good weekend. At twelve
thousand a day, they think maybe up to twenty thousand
people are going to be going per day, which will
be good for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast Listen
(10:59):
Live News Talk Set B from six am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
Upside of the Supercars is that the rude weather interruption
of last Sunday will be put right this weekend in
christ Jurich. We got four races to make up for
at first ever races of course for the South Island,
which is super exciting. The man going into the weekend
with all the momentum is of course Ryan Wood, who
has won his second ever Supercars race in Tapo, his
first in New Zealand and the first win for Toyota itself.
(00:20):
So all in all, it was very good weekend. Then
came Sunday and it was all off. So hopefully things
change this coming weekend. Ryan Woods with us anyway, Ryan morning.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good morning mate, how are you very well?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Indeed, how's your season gone so far? I mean the
weekend itself was good, a third in a win. You
couldn't have asked for a lot more than that, could you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, Look, it was a great weekend, great points which
is really important for us. And yeah, obviously a win
at home was really cool and really focused on this
weekend now, so yeah, got to make the most of
the opportunity at hands.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
How big a deal was it for Toyota.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Massive, I guess you know, they're the biggest OEM in
the world and they've got to Yeah, they've got to do,
you know, a good job when they bring out a product,
and that's that's what they've done. And yeah, I'm so
proud to represent them, and the package that they've given
us has been really good, and yeah, so cool to
(01:23):
get the job done for them. And there's success I've
had straightaway is yeah, pretty impressive to be honest, talk
us through.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So for people who don't follow supercars, toya to have
come into it for the first time. You've got a
new car, you got to emuligate the whole thing, et cetera.
How do you sort a new car out from what
you had previously, which was a Mustang?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It obviously starts with a lot of design work and
from then on it it's just it's vision. It's putting
in what they think is right into into real life.
And look, everyone's done a great job at that. And yeah,
very proud to be driving the car that we are
(02:08):
and look it's been pretty fast straight away, So yeah,
I've done an amazing job. Obviously a lot of work
goes to the wind tunnel, a whole engine program and
a lot of that was done in the UK, so
they've done a massive job.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I don't know if this makes any difference to you,
but I reckon the Toyota is the best looking of
the three cars on the track. What do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I might be a little bit biased, but yeah, so
do I reckon? The Super looks pretty pretty angry and
stands out very well. So they've done an amazing job
of keeping that road car to race car. Feel about it?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
What did you make of Sunday when the weather came
through and they can't well on Saturday they can Sunday?
Were you disappointed in that because you're on a roll?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Looked they had to do what's right for you know,
everyone safety, and I think they made the right call.
So at the end of the day, there's you know,
people's lives that could have been at risk, and that's
more important than going going racing, So I think they
made the right call. And yeah, I'm glad no one
got too hurted. You know, obviously what ended upcoming wasn't
(03:17):
probably as bad as we thought, but at the same time,
you would rather be safe than sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
How did the whole movement of the city. Do you
pay an interest to ask questions about this. How did
the whole movement of the supercar stuff go from Taupo
to Christy, you know, the containers, the ships, the whole thing.
How's that gone? Has that gone smoothly?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well? Everything's here, so I don't know too much about it,
but yeah, I think everyone's found it quite a cool experience.
Obviously a lot of work for all the teams, but yeah,
at the end of the day, that's why we were
like a traveling circus.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, is it vastly different? You're out of a container
really when you're on the road, aren't you. Has there
two styles in New Zealand being that much different from
any given weekend or any two weekends in Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Not really, it's just racing as usual. We just don't
have our truck, so we'd just going the container and
work out of there and that's about the only difference.
So it's pretty normal. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do you believe in momentum? Giving your success Saturday? Do
you take that and move it into this weekend or
is the gap to you know another word, to start
from scratch again?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, I hope I believe in momentum. Will find out
tomorrow I guess if there is momentum, and then I'll
be trying to use it. I've still got confidence, so
we'll see how that goes. But yeah, at the end
of the day, I don't ever think it. Just go
out there and drive.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Good on you. What do you know about Ruepoona? How
much time on the simmer you spent?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Ah? Weep it, but drove here back in the day
and looking forward to getting that into it. About to
hit out to track this afternoon and you know, get
amongst it. It's going to be good. Can't wait to
get out there. Track's awesome, tight, and I can't wait
to see all the fans out there as well.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What's the forecast?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hopefully, Sonny, we'll be right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We had Ryan Matt Payne on last week and I
asked him, I'll ask you the same question. I asked him.
You've got to win, so it sort of discounts you
to a degree. Would you rather win a championship or
have some wins? In other words, if you could win
the championship without ever winning just podiums, would you do
that or would you rather have the wins?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Probably win the championship.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Even if you came second every time?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, I guess, so gives you the big trophy at the.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
End, I guess. So the places work me through how
this works. So so far I've got your twenty one, seven, five, seventh, third,
eight teenth, twenty first, third and one. So how come
some weekends it's eighteen, some weekends it's one.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Eighteen.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
There's been a few heck cubs the last couple of
bad ones, weren't they're not? I guess you know, real
if that makes sense, we we're probably running inside the
top ten when those happened. But honestly, it's just it's
it's so hard to be consistent each weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So you know, it's about just making sure the car's
in the window.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And yeah, it's a hard job, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's what makes the sports so exciting, because that's the
reason I asked. You just can never tell. And the
gap between first and third and eighteenth is next to
nothing at the end of the day. As far as
the A lot of people want me to ask about
Greg Murphy. What's he done for you? To explain easy meeting.
You've taken him on as a mental what's he done
for you?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
He's done lots. He's a realist.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
He's been straight up and down with me and he's
just helped develop me into a better driver on and
off track and understand what comes with all the success
and and you know, trying to work harder than your
opposition and making sure that you turn up to the
track fully prepared. So yeah, he's been massive and to
(07:27):
have him there on the weekend was really really special.
So he's going to come down this weekend and hopefully
I can make him proud again.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
What's his role in your Is it a day to day,
week to week thing or is he wants every now
and again you touch base thing? Well, how does it work?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's a bit of everything, to be honest, he's day
to day.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He's just my all rounder, to be honest. He's Yeah,
he's massive.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
He's he takes care of you know, conversations, all that
sort of stuff as well.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And yeah, he's been massive, physical.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Or mental or both. I mean, did you need to
kick up the ass? Is that was that the problem?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You needed a little kick up the jackson and Murphy
was the man to do it for you.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, one hundred.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
He's been great and at trying to steer me in
the right direction. And there definitely was a time where
I needed to have a good, hard look at myself
and yeah, he helped me with that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
So he's been massive.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And was that hard work for you to transform yourself
or not?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's always hard work, but it's what I needed and
if I wanted to be a better racing driver, that's
what I needed to do.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So yeah, because he's no nonsense, glad I did it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
He's no nonsense, no, no, no nonsense.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And yeah he's he's just you know what you've got
with Murph and he's very very straightforward.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, you lost it. And once again for people who
don't follow closely, you lost a tremendous amount of weight.
You dropped from one ten to eighty five. I didn't
realize it was quite that much. Just in terms of
getting in a seat in a car and in a race,
especially in an endurance race. What difference did that make?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It definitely helps with your concentration and being you know,
I guess, more confident in yourself, and yeah, it's just massive.
It's it's definitely something that helped me take my career
to the next level.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And yeah, it's been massive to help me.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Just know that when I do want to knuckle down,
and you know I always try and put one hundred
and ten percent, but that is extra a little bit
each day.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
It's really worth it. So it's it's pretty.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Cool, fantastic. Where's your growth trajectory? You got your third season?
Now are you on a trajectory to get better and better?
And bet? Over what period of time do you think
you're traveling? And how good can you be? Do you think?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I hope one day I can sit here and chat
to you as a batist champion and a champion of
the championship, and hopefully when the jar trophy this weekend,
hopefully that that's the conversation we have and yeah, I
feel like I could do those things.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, just see how it all goes.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Good on you mane well, good luck this afternoon and
looking forward to the weekend as well. Nice to catch up.
Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Go well, thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Good on you man. Ryan Wood, who is with Walkin Shaw,
comes off of victory. Brody Pisseki got the other win
of the two races last weekend. But we wish and
well and everyone at Ruapuna they say they're going to
break records this weekend. Normally a good weekend. At twelve
thousand a day, they think maybe up to twenty thousand
people are going to be going per day, which will
be good for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast Listen
(10:59):
Live News Talk Set B from six am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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