Vicki Wood

Victoria Rose Wood

Early life Born in Detroit, Michigan, Wood was the only girl in a family of seven children.

Career In 1953, her husband took her to a "powder puff" race at Motor City Speedway in Detroit.

In 1958, a magazine ad for Pontiac automobiles featured Wood in a photograph and the accompanying text that noted "... Vicki Wood and her '58 Pontiac taught men drivers a lesson in winning the 50 m.p.h. safe passing event".

She retired from racing in 1963. In the late 1960s she and her husband moved to Florida, where she worked in a department store.

Wood was inducted into the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.

On June 5, 2020, Wood died in a hospital in Troy, Michigan, at age 101.