Stanley Woods won 10 Isle of Man TT races between 1923 and 1939.
The Irish rider’s first TT victory came in the 1923 Junior TT, and he continued winning across the event’s pre-war era. Woods combined speed with exceptional mechanical sympathy, a valuable advantage on the rough roads and unreliable machinery of early motorcycle racing. His victories came on motorcycles including Velocette and other leading marques of the period.
Woods’ total of 10 TT wins made him the event’s leading winner for more than two decades. His record was eventually surpassed by Mike Hailwood, who won 14 TTs, but Woods remained one of the defining riders of the classic pre-Second World War period.
The dates in the question matter: Woods’ career stretched across the years before and after the 1930s, but the TT itself was suspended during the Second World War. His final two TT victories came in 1938 and 1939 on Velocette machinery, bringing him to the celebrated total of 10.