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

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for

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. 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

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chassis from

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(who Kurt worked for as a third mechanic), running Kurt and brother

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from 2016 onwards. His fortunes improved with six top 10 finishes (including two 4th placings) and 16th in the championship. He finished eighth in the

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and is also competing full time in the 2018 Super2 Series. In 2019 he switched to

finishing second in the championship.

Supercars Championship

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, Kostecki was also gifted the unusual opportunity to drive for

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at the

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and

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rounds of the championship following extensive damage to the teams' original chassis and injury to driver

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, 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

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, he is entered as a wildcard at round 9 at

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and round 11 The Bend SuperSprint driving a

United States

Kostecki was initially slated to run the second half of the

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alongside his cousin

Brodie Kostecki Brodie Paul Kostecki (born 1 November 1997) is an Australian professional racing driver. He has been competing in the Supercars Championship, Repco Supercars Championship, driving the #38 Ford Mustang S650, Ford Mustang GT for Dick Johnson Raci ...

, however this plan did not come to fruition.

Career results

Career summary

Complete Super2 Series results

( key) (Round results only)

Supercars Championship results

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

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

References

External links

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News, pictures & video's at Motorsport.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kostecki, Kurt Living people 1998 births Racing drivers from Perth, Western Australia Supercars Championship drivers Australian Endurance Championship drivers Andretti Autosport drivers United Autosports drivers Matt Stone Racing drivers Racing drivers from Western Australia Australian people of Ukrainian descent