Caitlin Wood

**Caitlin Wood** (born 15 January 1997 in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian racing driver, who competed in the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, using #20 as her race number. A GT racer by trade but lacking the funds in her early career, **Wood** would end the 2019 season in thirteenth in the Championship, and hence narrowly miss out on an automatic qualification spot for the 2020 W Series Championship.

## Background

After several seasons racing karts in her native Australia, Wood would secure her first seat in race cars in 2013, getting a full season in the New South Wales Formula Ford Championship. The following season saw Wood move into the Australian Formula Ford Championship, although she would only score three points across the season. However, Wood managed to secure a seat in the new Formula 4 Australia for 2015, albeit on part-time schedule due to funding issues.

### European Dreams: 2016 - 2019

Wood would have a strong partial season in the Australia F4 Championship, finishing thirteenth before moving her focus to Europe for 2016. The GT4 European Series was Wood's eventual destination after she received a seat in the Reiter Engineering Young Stars programme. Seventeenth in the GT4 Europe Series saw Wood move into the Blancpain Endurance Series for 2017, once again with Reiter Engineering's backing.

Tenth for Wood in the 2017 Sprint Cup in the Silver Class would not be enough for Wood to secure a return in 2018, resulting in her dropping to the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe. However, a lack of funding would result in Wood failing to complete the season, and hence have to take a job as a driver coach to help fund her stay in the UK.

## W Series History

One of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, Wood would successfully progress through the evaluation process to secure a full seat in the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship. Wood enjoyed an okay debut race, claiming a maiden points finish at the 2019 Hockenheim Race having spent the race in a queue behind Esmee Hawkey until the Brit slipped down the field. However, Wood would not score at the following race in Zolder, failing to threaten the points at all.

Two more pointless races for Wood followed in Misano and Nuremburg, with Wood having got caught out by a collision between Sarah Moore and Shea Holbrook in the latter that ruined her race. However, Wood would enjoy her best race of the campaign in Assen, fighting for the podium with title pretenders Jamie Chadwick and Beitske Visser, before ultimately finishing in fifth ahead of Gosia Rdest. Wood would, however, fail to score in a crucial season finale at Brands Hatch, after a late battle with Moore.

With that, Wood narrowly missed out on an automatic qualifying spot for the 2020 W Series Championship, finishing 2019 in thirteenth and a point behind twelfth placed Sabré Cook. She was subsequently overlooked for a 2020 seat after the 2020 Driver Selection Test, and hence dropped from the W Series.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Caitlin Wood's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Caitlin Wood during their W Series career:

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Caitlin Wood's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 'W Series concludes three days of testing in Almeria', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 18/09/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/on-track-for-2020-w-series-concludes-three-days-of-testing-in-almeria/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 'Caitlin Wood', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/caitlin-wood/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
4. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
5. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original