Tommy Wood
Record type: Motorsport Biographies
Biography: Junior - Velocette
Lightweight - Guzzi
Aged 34, a motor-cycle engineer, of Dibden, Perlieu, nr Southampton, who proclaims his hobby (other than motor-cycling) is gardening! The crowds idol at Caldwell Park, Tommy Wood won 42 races last year, and in his first appearance in T.T. finished eighth in the Junior and eleventh in the Senior, gaining a first class replica in each.
His Velocette is a new standard Mk. VIII model, and is entered in the Junior by A. R. Taylor Garages Ltd., of Shipton-on-Stour. His Guzzi is also a new standard model, his entrant in the Lightweight being Capt. Wilkins of “Keswick” fame.
(TT Special, 11 June 1948, p.15.)
Competed in
| Race | Position | Time | Speed | Machine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 Lightweight TT | 6 | 2:01:02.00 | 74.82 | Guzzi |
| 1951 Senior TT | 14 | 3:14:14.80 | 81.59 | Norton |
| 1951 Lightweight TT | 1 | 1:51:15.80 | 81.39 | Guzzi |
| 1951 Junior TT | 31 | 3:18:06.00 | 80 | Velocette |
| 1950 Lightweight TT | R | Guzzi | ||
| 1950 Junior TT | R | Velocette | ||
| 1949 Lightweight TT | 2 | 3:23:25.20 | 77.91 | Guzzi |
| 1949 Junior TT | 17 | 3:22:12.60 | 78.37 | Velocette |
| 1948 Lightweight TT | R | Guzzi | ||
| 1948 Junior TT | R | Velocette | ||
| 1947 Senior TT | 11 | 3:30:21.60 | 75.33 | Velocette |
| 1947 Junior TT | 8 | 3:36:16.00 | 73.28 | Velocette |
| 1937 Junior MGP | R | Velocette |