With motor racing films in the news so much at the moment, here is a story pitch to consider.
A wealthy motorsport enthusiast buys a successful motor racing team, makes a number of dramatic (and expensive) changes and watches it become, well, less successful. Then, through a long series of ups and downs – best shown perhaps by a smash-cut dream sequence – they win the biggest race of the year. Cue tears, roll the credits and sit back to watch the box office receipts roll in.
What’s next? A sequel! Oh no, the team’s star driver ups and leaves, so they sign up two fresh-faced youngsters, tighten their belts and aim for the top. Both kids step it up and last year, one of them takes the title – and the team topples the big kids at the end of the pitlane and wins their own crown, and even more tears ensue.
It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Maybe it was.
Autosport Top 50 of 2023: #28 Brodie Kostecki
Just what has happened to drive a wedge between Supercars champion Brodie Kostecki and Erebus Motorsport will, in all likelihood, come out in the fullness of time. But for right now, what we do know is this; when it comes time for 24 Supercars to take to the track to open the 2024 season (on the hallowed tarmac of Bathurst, no less) Kostecki will not be there.
What has been confirmed is that Kostecki will be sitting out the opening round; beyond that, who can say? After a pair of somewhat optimistic statements, both the team and Supercars will be hopeful that whatever was the cause of the rift can be repaired in time for the rest of the season.
That is an admirable sentiment. But does that ever happen in professional motorsport?
Source: Autosport