{"id":314070,"date":"2025-11-28T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:04:11","slug":"supercars-news-randle-heartbroken-by-race-ending-adelaide-shunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314070\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Randle heartbroken by race-ending Adelaide shunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Randle-crash.jpg\" alt=\"Randle heartbroken by race-ending Adelaide shunt\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Randle&#8217;s crashed Mustang. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n<p>The wet weather race was called off 10 laps early after a heavy crash for Randle left a concrete barrier on the outside of the infamous corner damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Tickford driver had been running ninth at the time of the crash, his Castrol Mustang aquaplaning into the wall as he looked to fend off Will Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Once back in the paddock Randle made little secret of how devastated he was to have crashed out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically I feel fine, but mentally, not really,\u201d he told Speedcafe. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve let everyone down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was getting wetter and I thought I\u2019d backed off enough, but obviously not. I didn\u2019t have anyone in front of me to gauge [the conditions] and I thought it was fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got into the corner okay and in the middle of the corner I fully aquaplaned. I\u2019m pretty gutted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2025-adelaide-grand-final-race-1-results-brodie-kostecki-wins-reaction-highlights-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kostecki wins $50,000 in rain-shortened Adelaide opener<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the crash Randle was already nursing a 15-second penalty for early contact with Brown that had sent the Triple Eight driver, and Finals contender, into a spin.<\/p>\n<p>Randle, however, is adamant that having a recovering Brown back in his mirrors didn\u2019t contribute to his crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew he was behind me, but I also had a 15-second penalty,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I wasn\u2019t worried about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Work has now begun on the repair of the #55 Mustang with the extent of the damage not yet entirely clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally when there\u2019s visibly less damage it\u2019s worse [underneath],\u201d said Randle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least it moved the concrete wall. But I honestly don\u2019t know [if it is repairable] at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/289866\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/289866\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Randle&#8217;s crashed Mustang. Image: InSyde Media The wet weather race was called off 10 laps early after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[130409,64,63,806,805,803,804,7499,85,107489,43956],"class_list":{"0":"post-314070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-adelaide-grand-final","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-slot4","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-thomas-randle","18":"tag-tickford-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314070","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=314070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}