As part of a partnership between Richard Childress Racing and Erebus Motorspors in Australia, newly crowned Supercars champion Brodie Kostecki could make a handful of NASCAR Cup Series starts next year.
It could eventually turn into a full-time transition to the highest level of American motorsports.
Childress made the trip down to the Adelaide 500 over the weekend to watch Kostecki claim the championship. He also made headlines in suggesting he could come back next year to help field an entry for two-time Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, who drives his No. 8 car.
But this trip was about Kostecki, who made his Cup Series debut this past season, on the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“Hopefully we can race him two or three [times] on the road courses,” Childress told the Fox Sports broadcast of his ambitions. “But I want to run him on an oval, he’s raced on them earlier in his career. The schedules have to coordinate; I’ve got a couple in mind that I’d like him to run – we’re looking at Watkins Glen and Sonoma – because he’d do well there.”
To his point, Kostecki previously raced Late Models and in the NASCAR K&N Series before returning home to race in Supercars but following the success of Shane Van Gisbergen and his impending full-time move to the United States, Kostecki is exploring his own options.
“It was a pretty neat deal to have him come over,” added Childress. “Both drivers of ours are doing better [on road courses] because Brodie came over.
“There’s such a high level of competition in Supercars, if our drivers came here they’d get educated pretty quick because these guys are so aggressive and you’ve got to be so good with these cars.”
Childress credited SVG for creating a palpable buzz around the world with his victory on the Streets of Chicago in his debut Cup Series race with Trackhouse Racing.
“He did a heck of a job there, winning in the rain, it just fit his wheelhouse really well.”
Matt Weaver is a Motorsports Insider for Sportsnaut. Follow him on Twitter.