The 26-year-old, who took his first title within the class after a season-long battle with Shane van Gisbergen final yr, is known to be on the point of parting methods with the workforce after a significant disagreement with workforce administration.
After the departure of Will Brown from the workforce on the finish of final season to hitch Triple Eight, Erebus now faces the opportunity of going into 2024 with two new drivers: Jack Le Brocq, who signed with the workforce final summer season, and maybe Todd Hazelwood.
Motorsport.com understands that there have been tensions inside the Erebus workforce for a while, with Kostecki reportedly having a significant fall-out with the squad on the eve of the Tailem Bend spherical in August of final yr.
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Brodie Kostecki, Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Mockingly, that weekend noticed Kostecki’s finest efficiency of the season, scoring most factors by profitable all three races on the South Australian monitor.
It has been beforehand reported that Kostecki is beneath contract to Erebus for the rest of the 2024 season and, as issues stand, ought to he depart, it seems to be unlikely he could be launched to hitch one other workforce. That might imply that he could be unlikely take part at the same time as a co-driver within the sequence’ endurance occasions, the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000.
NASCAR plans?
Kostecki has been linked with a future in NASCAR and has already competed in a Cup race with Richard Childress Racing, operating on the Indianapolis RC in August, 2023. He was scheduled to take part in as much as 5 Cup occasions this yr in a joint-venture entry between Erebus and Richard Childress Racing.
Group proprietor Richard Childress visited the Adelaide 500 Supercars occasion in November and frolicked with the workforce, together with taking a passenger experience with Kostecki within the Coca Cola-sponsored Camaro.
Kostecki has robust hyperlinks with Australian businessman Peter Adderton, whose MobileX model backed his NASCAR debut. The cell phone firm is present process main development via its hyperlinks with Walmart and appears to be ideally-placed to again any potential full-time change to NASCAR racing.
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Brodie Kostecki, Richard Childress Racing, MobileX Chevrolet Camaro
With such upheaval so late within the season the Erebus workforce’s finest prospect of a alternative driver seems to be Hazelwood. After profitable the Super2 title in 2017 he has accomplished six seasons as a full-time Supercars driver, and has a full season’s expertise with the new-for-2023 Gen3 racer. The 28-year-old drove Blanchard Racing Group’s Ford Mustang to 21st in the newest Drivers’ Championship.
Erebus Motorsport has already undergone structural change for the upcoming season. It has named Brad Tremain as its new Group Principal, the workforce’s former Crew Chief reporting to workforce CEO Barry Ryan.
