Car Number: 186
Age: 17
Home town: Bonny Hills, NSW, Australia
Date of Birth: 16/12/2006
Team: Right Karts By M2 Competition
Seventeen year old Cooper Barnes will continue to develop his racing experience in Toyota GR86 with a full season in the Bridgestone GR86 Championship.
Barnes – from Port Macquarie in New South Wales – started karting at the age of nine before switching to circuit racing at 14 with a season racing Excels. He started racing in Toyota 86s last year and just completed his second season, this time in the GR86 model.
A winner in state championship races in karting, Barnes has shown good pace in the Australian GR Cup, qualifying ninth in the Bathurst 1000 round and then running comfortably inside the top ten on the Gold Coast.
For his debut season of racing in New Zealand, Cooper is part of the Rights Karts Academy by M2 Competition team.
