STEVE JACKMAN
NOAH’ S TEST OF ENDURANCE
WHEN NOAH COSBY SUFFERED A LIFE-CHANGING ACCIDENT AT THE AGE OF 16, FOUR-WHEELED MOTORSPORT RESTORED HIS NEED FOR SPEED AND NOW HE IS FOCUSING ON RACING AT LE MANS
L ike many of his contemporaries, 21-yearold Noah Cosby has his sights set on competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It’ s a realistic option for many young drivers, but Cosby began racing in his late teens and only then after recovering from a life-changing motocross accident that robbed him of any feeling below his ribcage.
Cosby has always been involved in motorised sport, riding motorcycles since the age of four and competing in freestyle motocross until a Covidenforced hiatus.“ I hadn’ t been on the bike for a while, and I went back to continue training after we’ d had some time off,” he says.“ I was trying to be safe; the distance of the jump was 75 feet, and I moved it to 50 feet for my first jump, just to get my head back in the game. I just went slightly too far
Above: Noah Cosby at Donington racing in the Britcar Endurance Championship and broke my back. I was 16 and in hospital for 21 weeks.”
Paralysed from the chest down and adjusting to life in a wheelchair, Cosby sat his A-levels; attaining 100 per cent in art, he has since started creating motorsport-related Pointillism works and commissions. Then he found inspiration from Aaron Morgan, who had moved to racing following a similar motocross accident. Finding sponsorship, Cosby began competing in the Citroën C1 Cup, however his introduction to endurance racing was quite the baptism of fire.“ I never competitively raced before my accident,” he explains.“ My dad raced when I was little and my grandad, too, so I was used to the scene, but it was terrifying.”
Cosby soon acclimatised and, following Aaron’ s path, stepped up into GT racing through Team BRIT,
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