Kurt Kostecki

Kurt Kostecki
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1998-07-04) 4 July 1998 (age 27) Perth, Western Australia
Related to	Jake Kostecki (brother) Brodie Kostecki (cousin)
Super2 Series career
Debut season	2014
Current team	Kostecki Brothers Racing
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	55
Former teams	MW Motorsport RSport Engineering Triple Eight Race Engineering
Starts	80
Wins	0
Podiums	9
Poles	2
Best finish	2nd in 2019
Supercars Championship career
Car number	56
Current team	Tickford Racing (Endurance race co-driver)
Championships	0
Races	20
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Pole positions	0

Kurt Michael Kostecki (born 4 July 1998) is an Australian racing driver of Ukrainian descent. ^[1]

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. ^[2] 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 10 finishes (including two 4th placings) and 16th in the championship. He finished eighth in the 2017 Super2 Series and is also competing full time in the 2018 Super2 Series. 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. ^[3] 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, he is entered as a wildcard at round 9 at Queensland Raceway ^[4] and round 11 The Bend SuperSprint driving a Holden VF Commodore. ^[5]

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. ^[6]

Career results

Career summary

Season	Series	Position	Team	Car
2012	Australian National Sprint Kart - Junior Clubman	6th
2014	Dunlop V8 Supercar Series	46th	MW Motorsport	Ford FG Falcon
2015	V8 Supercars Dunlop Series	24th	Rsport Race Engineering	Holden VE Commodore
	V8 Ute Racing Series	37th	Matt Stone Racing	Ford FG Falcon XR8 Ute
2016	Supercars Dunlop Series	16th	Kostecki Brothers Racing	Holden VF Commodore
	International V8 Supercars Championship	55th	Team 18
2017	Dunlop Super2 Series	8th	Kostecki Brothers Racing	Holden VF Commodore
2018	Dunlop Super2 Series	8th	Kostecki Brothers Racing	Holden VF Commodore
	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	53rd
2019	Dunlop Super2 Series	2nd	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden VF Commodore
2020	Dunlop Super2 Series	13th	Kostecki Brothers Racing	Holden VF Commodore
	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	NC	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Holden ZB Commodore
2021	Repco Supercars Championship	26th	Walkinshaw Andretti United Matt Stone Racing	Holden ZB Commodore
2022	Repco Supercars Championship	47th	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT

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	ADE R1	ADE R2	WIN R3	WIN R4	BAR R5	BAR R6	TOW R7	TOW R8	QLD R9	QLD R10	BAT R11	HOM R12 Ret	HOM R13 19									46th	48
2015	RSport Engineering	4	Holden VE Commodore	ADE R1 25	ADE R2 24	BAR R3 17	BAR R4 20	BAR R5 16	WIN R6 16	WIN R7 22	WIN R8 14	TOW R9 21	TOW R10 Ret	QLD R11	QLD R12	QLD R13	BAT R14	HOM R15	HOM R16						24th	290
2016	Kostecki Brothers Racing	55	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1 18	ADE R2 20	PHI R3 12	PHI R4 8	PHI R5 8	BAR R6 12	BAR R7 4	BAR R8 13	TOW R9	TOW R10	SAN R11 6	SAN R12 4	SAN R13 10	BAT R14 14	HOM R15 Ret	HOM R16 Ret						16th	733
2017				ADE R1 17	ADE R2 10	ADE R3 Ret	SYM R4 9	SYM R5 7	SYM R6 9	SYM R7 15	PHI R8 Ret	PHI R9 11	PHI R10 9	PHI R11 7	TOW R12 11	TOW R13 4	SYD R14 10	SYD R15 14	SYD R16 10	SYD R17 16	SAN R18 7	SAN R19 4	NEW R20 15	NEW R21 6	8th	1083
2018				ADE R1 3	ADE R2 3	ADE R3 4	SYM R4 5	SYM R5 6	SYM R6 4	BAR R7 4	BAR R8 15	BAR R9 3	TOW R10 13	TOW R11 4	SAN R12 20	SAN R13 19	BAT R14 Ret	NEW R 18	NEW R C						8th	1010
2019	Triple Eight Race Engineering			ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 DSQ	ADE R3 10	BAR R4 6	BAR R5 3	TOW R6 2	TOW R7 4	QLD R8 3	QLD R9 3	BAT R10 3	SAN R11 2	SAN R12 5	NEW R13 5	NEW R14 4								2nd	1502
2020	Kostecki Brothers Racing			ADE R1 4	ADE R2 11	ADE R3 8	SYD R4	SYD R5	BAT R6	BAT R7															13th	188

Supercars Championship results

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

Supercars 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	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Position	Points
2016	Team 18	18	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	PHI R6	PHI R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HID R12	HID R13	TOW R14 25	TOW R15 Ret	QLD R16 23	QLD R17 21	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN R20	BAT R21	SUR R22	SUR R23	PUK R24	PUK R25	PUK R26	PUK R27	SYD R28	SYD R29						55th	108
2018	Kostecki Brothers Racing	42	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SYM R7	SYM R8	PHI R9	PHI R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13	WIN R14	HID R15	HID R16	TOW R17	TOW R18	QLD R19 25	QLD R20 23	SMP R21	BEN R22 27	BEN R23 Ret	SAN QR	SAN R24	BAT R25	SUR R26	SUR R27	PUK R28	PUK R29	NEW R30	NEW R31			53rd	90
2020	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	Holden ZB Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SMP1 R7	SMP1 R8	SMP1 R9	SMP2 R10	SMP2 R11	SMP2 R12	HID1 R13	HID1 R14	HID1 R15	HID2 R16	HID2 R17	HID2 R18	TOW1 R19	TOW1 R20	TOW1 R21	TOW2 R22	TOW2 R23	TOW2 R24	BEN1 R25	BEN1 R26	BEN1 R27	BEN2 R28	BEN2 R29 PO	BEN2 R30 PO	BAT R31 Ret				NC	0
2021		27		BAT1 R1	BAT1 R2	SAN R3	SAN R4	SAN R5	SYM R6	SYM R7	SYM R8	BEN R9 19	BEN R10 16	BEN R11 23	HID R12 6	HID R13 23	HID R14 17	TOW1 R15	TOW1 R16	TOW2 R17	TOW2 R18	TOW2 R19	SMP1 R20	SMP1 R21	SMP1 R22	SMP2 R23 25	SMP2 R24 21	SMP2 R25 21	SMP3 R26	SMP3 R27	SMP3 R28							26th	434
	Matt Stone Racing	34	Holden ZB Commodore																													SMP4 R29 PO	SMP4 R30 PO	BAT2 R31 13
2022	Tickford Racing	56	Ford Mustang S550	SMP R1	SMP R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	MEL R6	MEL R7	MEL R8	MEL R9	BAR R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13	WIN R14	WIN R15	HID R16	HID R17	HID R18	TOW R19	TOW R20	BEN R21	BEN R22	BEN R23	SAN R24 PO	SAN R25 PO	SAN R26 PO	PUK R27	PUK R28	PUK R29	BAT R30 17	SUR R31	SUR R32	ADE R33	ADE R34	47th	108

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Overall position	Class position
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

References

1. "Supercars team shows support for Ukraine". Seven Network. 3 March 2022.
2. "Dunlop Young Guns - Kurt Kostecki". Supercars.com. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
3. "Lengthy repair forces major shake-up at Team 18". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
4. "Kostecki felt like a debutant again at Ipswich". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
5. "Two Wildcard entries have been confirmed for Supercars' first visit to The Bend circuit in South Australia later this month". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
6. "Kurt Kostecki chases US Dream". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 7 June 2014.

External links

• Kurt Kostecki career summary at DriverDB.com
• Kurt Kostecki driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• News, pictures & video's at Motorsport.com