Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown put $20,000 on the line for a young driver in the Australian motorsport system<\/a>.<\/p>\nPromoted via their Lucky Dogs podcast, the Top Dog Challenge saw all full-time Supercars nominate a young driver that would receive a $20,000 pay-out should they win the challenge.<\/p>\n
As it stands there are four drivers left in the challenge \u2013 Kai Allen, Brown, Anton De Pasquale and Chaz Mostert.<\/p>\n
Mostert and Allen will go head-to-head at the Bathurst 1000 as will Brown and De Pasquale, with the best performing from each bracket fighting it out for the prize on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
Should either Brown or Allen prevail, the prize pool will swell to $25,000 thanks to an additional pledge of $5000 from Ford.<\/p>\n
Kostecki and Brown have used Ford\u2019s pledge to put pressure on General Motors and Toyota to join in.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s not a Ford driver, that\u2019s $5000 that we\u2019ve missed,\u201d said Brown in a social media clip.<\/p>\n
\u201cFord said Chevy and Toyota can cough up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really cool for Ford to step in and offer that support. If myself or Kai do get through and win the Top Dog Challenge we\u2019ll be giving away not $20,000, but $25000 to one of the young juniors, that will be really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen\u2019s junior driver pick is karter Levi Doessel while Brown has nominated GR Scholarship driver Harry Bresneshan.<\/p>\n
Those vying for what is currently the $20,000 prize pool are GR Cup driver Jack Szewczuk (De Pasquale) and Kiwi 86 driver Chris White (Mostert).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown is one of two Ford drivers left in the Top Dog Challenge. Image: Supplied The initiative,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2497,806,805,803,804,85,14594],"class_list":["post-904900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-will-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown is one of two Ford drivers left in the Top Dog Challenge. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n