Jake Kostecki is a racing driver from Australia who last raced in Supercars Championship for Blanchard Racing Team. Kostecki has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 85 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,865 ranks Kostecki 6346th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2023-10-05 | Repco Bathurst 1000 | P19 | −3 |
| 2023-09-15 | Penrite Oil Sandown 500 | P24 | −22 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ▸Supercars Championship | Blanchard Racing Team | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P42 | −25 | 1,865 |
| 2022 | ▸Supercars Championship | Tradie Racing | 34 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | P26 | +17 | 1,891 |
| 2021 | ▸Supercars Championship | Matt Stone Racing | 31 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P24 | −339 | 1,874 |
| 2020 | ▸Supercars Championship | Matt Stone Racing | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P34 | −910 | 2,167 |
| 2019 | ▸Supercars Championship | Kostecki Brothers Racing | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P41 | −177 | 2,798 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇳🇿 Shane Van Gisbergen | 5,778 | 72 | 6 | 66 | 8% |
| 🇦🇺 Mark Winterbottom | 3,778 | 72 | 14 | 58 | 19% |
| 🇦🇺 Cameron Waters | 6,060 | 71 | 5 | 66 | 7% |
| 🇦🇺 Nick Percat | 3,406 | 71 | 13 | 58 | 18% |
| 🇦🇺 Jack Le Brocq | 3,943 | 70 | 20 | 50 | 29% |
| 🇦🇺 Bryce Fullwood | 3,638 | 70 | 24 | 46 | 34% |
| 🇦🇺 Chaz Mostert | 5,666 | 69 | 5 | 64 | 7% |
| 🇦🇺 James Courtney | 3,308 | 69 | 14 | 55 | 20% |
| 🇦🇺 Todd Hazelwood | 3,103 | 69 | 22 | 47 | 32% |
| 🇳🇿 Jack Smith | 1,245 | 69 | 44 | 25 | 64% |
Jake Kostecki is an Australian professional racing driver of Ukrainian descent who competed in the Supercars Championship between 2019 and 2023. Across 85 starts over five seasons, he never won a race or scored a podium finish, averaging a grid position of 18th. He raced primarily for Blanchard Racing Team and spent 44 of his starts with Matt Stone Racing, a team that has not recorded a victory in the index and fielded a driver roster well below the calibre of front-runners.[1]
Kostecki's head-to-head record against his most frequent competitors tells a consistent story. Against FIA Platinum-graded former champions and the strongest professional drivers in the field, he finished behind them in the vast majority of shared races: 66 times behind Shane Van Gisbergen across 72 encounters, 66 times behind Cameron Waters across 71, and 58 times behind Mark Winterbottom across 72. Even against drivers at middle-tier professional level, such as Nick Percat and Jack Le Brocq, he won only occasional races on track. He did manage isolated victories against stronger competitors including Broc Feeney, Jamie Whincup, and his brother Brodie Kostecki, a former champion, but these were scattered results rather than evidence of competitive parity.[2]
Kostecki retired from racing after 2023, his final two rounds in the Supercars Championship yielding no points and a finish outside the top forty. His career represents a professional stint in one of Australia's premier racing categories without breaking through to competitive success at that level.