Kurt Kostecki

Kurt Michael Kostecki (born 4 July 1998) is an Australian racing driver of Ukrainian descent.

Biography Australia Super2 Series In December 2014, Kostecki became one of the youngest people to drive a V8 Supercar when, at the age of 16, he debuted in the Dunlop Series support race for the Sydney 500 for MW Motorsport. Failing to finish his first race and finishing 19th in the second, he was picked up by RSport. His season lasted four rounds, but with a best result of 14th, he stepped down from the drive to focus on school studies and was replaced with privateer Phil Woodbury. The Kostecki family purchased two Gen2 Holden VF Commodore chassis from Triple Eight Race Engineering (who Kurt worked for as a third mechanic), running Kurt and brother Jake from 2016 onwards. His fortunes improved with six top-ten finishes (including two fourth placings) and 16th in the championship. In 2019 he switched to Triple Eight Race Engineering finishing second in the championship.

Supercars Championship In 2016, Kostecki was also gifted the unusual opportunity to drive for Team 18 at the Townsville and Ipswich rounds of the championship following extensive damage to the teams' original chassis and injury to driver Lee Holdsworth, seeing as he could provide the team a spare chassis. At Townsville he finished 25th in Race One and DNFed in Race Two, and in Ipswich he finished 23rd in Race One and 21st in Race Two.

For 2018, Kostecki is entered as a wildcard at round 9 at Queensland Raceway and round 11 The Bend SuperSprint driving a Holden VF Commodore.

United States Kostecki was initially slated to run the second half of the 2014 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East alongside his cousin Brodie Kostecki, however this plan did not come to fruition.

Career results Career summary

Complete Super2 Series results (key) (Round results only) Super2 Series results Year Team No. Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Position Points 2014 MW Motorsport 28 Ford FG Falcon ADER1 ADER2 WINR3 WINR4 BARR5 BARR6 TOWR7 TOWR8 QLDR9 QLDR10 BATR11 HOMR12 HOMR13 46th 48 2015 RSport Engineering 4 Holden VE Commodore ADER1 ADER2 BARR3 BARR4 BARR5 WINR6 WINR7 WINR8 TOWR9 TOWR10 QLDR11 QLDR12 QLDR13 BATR14 HOMR15 HOMR16 24th 290 2016 Kostecki Brothers Racing 55 Holden VF Commodore ADER1 ADER2 PHIR3 PHIR4 PHIR5 BARR6 BARR7 BARR8 TOWR9 TOWR10 SANR11 SANR12 SANR13 BATR14 HOMR15 HOMR16 16th 733 2017 ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYMR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 SYMR7 PHIR8 PHIR9 PHIR10 PHIR11 TOWR12 TOWR13 SYDR14 SYDR15 SYDR16 SYDR17 SANR18 SANR19 NEWR20 NEWR21 8th 1083 2018 ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYMR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 BARR7 BARR8 BARR9 TOWR10 TOWR11 SANR12 SANR13 BATR14 NEWR NEWR 8th 1010 2019 Triple Eight Race Engineering ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 BARR4 BARR5 TOWR6 TOWR7 QLDR8 QLDR9 BATR10 SANR11 SANR12 NEWR13 NEWR14 2nd 1502 2020 Kostecki Brothers Racing ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYDR4 SYDR5 BATR6 BATR7 13th 188

Supercars Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps Overallposition Classposition 2020 Hobson Motorsport/GWR Brett Hobson Garth Walden Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2015) Silver 288 21st 5th

Complete Bathurst 1000 results Year Team Car Co-driver Position Laps 2020 Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden Commodore ZB Bryce Fullwood DNF 147 2021 Matt Stone Racing Holden Commodore ZB Jake Kostecki 13th 161 2022 Tickford Racing Ford Mustang Mk.6 Jake Kostecki 17th 161