Fourteen-year-old West Australian Jake Kostecki is set to become the youngest driver ever to race a V8 Supercar.

The karter and former Swift Racing Series driver plans to make his debut in the third-tier Kumho V8 Touring Car Series at Phillip Island this weekend, driving an MW Motorsport Ford.

Kostecki will need final sign-off on his racing license from CAMS during private practice on Friday before he is cleared to race.

“We’ve ticked everything off so far and the final sign-off is on Friday in practice so we have been working through with CAMS on the requirements,” said team owner Matthew White, who will drive his squad’s other entry this weekend.

“It will be a low key weekend all about getting as many laps as possible.

“He wants to follow the V8 pathway and this is the best category to get him into.

“He has had a test at Winton and was a quick learner and listened to what he was told and was quite respectable by the end of the day.

“He’s got the right approach and temperament. It’s good to try and get some young guys to train up on how to drive these cars before they can get any bad habits.

“I’d love to help fast track some young drivers and give them a chance of being a valuable commodity to a V8 Supercar team somewhere down the track.”

Paul Dumbrell currently holds the record as the youngest V8 Supercar racer having debuted as a 16-year-old at the Symmons Plains round of the 1999 V8 Supercars Championship.