Cyclone Alfred preps take Jamie Whincup out of Race of Champions
Jamie Whincup has withdrawn from the Sydney event and will be replaced by Brodie Kostecki.
Reigning Bathurst 1000 winner and 2023 Supercars champion Brodie Kostecki will replace Jamie Whincup at the Race of Champions in Sydney as the Queenslander takes time out to prepare for Cyclone Alfred.
The seven-time Supercars champion has withdrawn with uncertainty looming over the expected damaging impacts of Alfred, expected to make landfall on late Wednesday in South-East Queensland with effects felt into Thursday and the days beyond.
Whincup was to contest his third Race of Champions after competing in Bangkok in 2012 and Barbados in 2014.
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Kostecki will take his place on Team Australia Supercars, with fellow star Chaz Mostert also joining the grid in the place of four-time Race of Champions winner Mattias Ekström who withdrew due to illness.
Mustang driver Kostecki will go head-to-head with one of his idols, NASCAR champion Kurt Busch, who lines up for Team USA.
Alister McRae has also replaced his injured son Max and on Team Great Britain in Friday’s ROC Nations Cup with F1 star David Coulthard.
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The two-day event begins on Friday 7 March with the iconic inside-outside track constructed within Sydney's Accor Stadium.
