21st May 2010 - Roy Wood to Appear in Heritage F2
1960s and 70s Superstox star driver 'Kinky' Roy Wood will
be racing in the BriSCA Hertiage F2s at Aldershot Raceway
on Sunday 20th June 2010. This story starts back in 2006 when
Roy kindly provided some photographs and information for my
third oval racing book, Backtrack.
Some time afterwards I was chatting to Heritage Scrutineer
and short oval enthusiast John Graham who mentioned that he
would be interested in building a replica of Roy's Turner
based Superstox from the late 1960s.
Knowing of John's interest I managed to get an invite for
Roy to attend the recent BriSCA Heritage press day at Northampton
and he met up with John. The result was that John has offered
Roy the chance to race his current heritage car, a late 60's
Bill Batten replica, at the upcoming Heritage meeting. John
is also going to re-livery the car to Roy's original colours.
To my mind this is exactly what the Heritage scene is all
about promoting and will surely be a meeting for long terms
fans to reslish. Sadly I am going have to miss it as I am
commited to broadcast work elsewhere in the country but I
am keeping in touch with Roy as he has very kindly written
up some articles for future issues of Oval
Track Classic magazine.