18 Oct Woody Ends Drag Racing Career on a High Achieving New Personal Best
Steve Wood from Lancing, best known as Woody, races his Suzuki Hayabusa at STP National Finals and secures a new personal best of 7.75 seconds to end his career.
National drag racer, Woody, embarked on his final races at Santa Pod Raceway between the 24th – 25th of September with one last goal: to beat his previous best of 7.97-seconds.
After a challenging start with a crosswind hampering his run and his front wheel leaving the ground nine times during the run, the STP National Final commentators were amazed to see Woody defeating the odds and achieving a new P.B of 7.75 seconds.
The drag racer bought his Hayabusa as a standard model in 2001 and gradually modified it with the help of some friends, working at first on an extended chassis and later adding a small turbo to get into the racing scene. In the span of 20 years, Team Woody has evolved it into a one-of-a-kind machine and Woody has only ever used this customised Suzuki Hayabusa to compete in races.
On The Wheel provided Team Woody with a sponsorship deal for the season. Duncan McGregor, the Sales Manager of On The Wheel, says: “We were very excited to be able to sponsor Team Woody for his last year of drag racing; his Hayabusa is an incredible bike and he’s got an amazing team around him. To set a new personal best on his last-ever run shows how committed they all are.”
