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February 10, 2025 6:46 PM

Sprintcar Season Coming on Strong for Kobi

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There has been some elbows up racing for Kobi Wright as he settles into the 2024 / 2025 sprintcar season. (Photo ZP Images)

Kobi Wright has made some positive moves as he settles into the 2024 / 2025 sprintcar season.

The family team based in Muswellbrook have completed seven runs in Sydney since Boxing Day, and by the time this paper hits the shelves he will have raced at Avalon Speedway in Victoria, with a few more meetings on the cards before they head home next week.

It has been busy, but there have been some favourable results that help keep spirits high.

“We got the heat win on the Tuesday from fifth, which was pretty good because we missed the qualifying inverts and that really saved our night, put us in a good spot for the feature,” Kobi shared.

“Then we ended up running fifth in the feature, so that was good, there was a lot of good cars there and we ended up holding our own.

“There’s a lot of full-time drivers that came in and they’re pretty aggressive and know how to get around you, so we had to fight a bit harder, but I think we went all right.”

The Australian summer sprintcar series attracts a lot of international drivers who travel from one track to the next to compete in some world-renowned events, which offers great exposure for young drivers like Kobi.

“At the start of the night you just look around the pits, and obviously it’s a bit packed and there’s a lot of good guys there. But once the helmet goes on and you get rolling around, you sort of forget about everything and just focus on what you have to do,” he shared.

“I wouldn’t say it’s intimidating, if anything it’s bit more motivation to get up to their speed and if you can race with them, then you’re obviously doing something right.”

And it has worked with Kobi’s dad Andrew sharing there has been a noticeable improvement in the teenagers confidence and willingness to move around on the track.

“At the start he was more glued to the bottom, wasn’t interested in trying to get up around the top, but by the end of the international season, if you had to get up and run around the top he was more comfortable. Last night in his heat and his dash, the track was on the wall and he was up there running around,” Andrew said.

Kobi was racing at Avalon Speedway in Lara on Wednesday, Mount Gambia on Thursday, and then on to Warrnambool for the three-night Classic, a race meeting that attracts around 100 sprintcars with preliminary racing split across two nights.

-JEM ANSHAW

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