{"id":517804,"date":"2026-03-04T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517804\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:16:14","slug":"supercars-investigating-cool-suit-mishaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517804\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars investigating cool suit mishaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUPERCARS is looking into the spate of cool suit issues that occurred in the Sunday race at Sydney Motorsport Park.<\/p>\n

Broc Feeney<\/a>, Will Brown<\/a> and David Reynolds<\/a> were all left worse for wear after one way or another their cooling systems failed them in sweltering conditions.<\/p>\n

Brown reported thinking \u201cI was going to die in the car\u201d<\/a> while Reynolds declared \u201cyou couldn\u2019t pay me $100 million to feel like that again\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All three are among the select few drivers in the field who use an off-the-shelf electric cool suit system (i.e. each of the cars from Triple Eight, Team 18, Grove Racing and PremiAir Racing).<\/p>\n

The remainder use customised dry ice-based systems.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Will Brown Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cDriver health and wellbeing is very important to us,\u201d Supercars chief motorsport officer Tim Edwards told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been working with the two teams (Triple Eight and Team 18) trying to understand what went wrong and what can be done to prevent that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is one thing that is not controlled by the category, it\u2019s open to the teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cool suit dramas prompted some to question why air-conditioning isn\u2019t a feature of Gen3 Supercars like it is in GT3 machines \u2013 so, V8 Sleuth put it to Edwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was investigated with these cars but the cabin temperature and insulation, effectively you would have to make such a wholesale change to the car because it\u2019s a pretty hostile environment,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine, you take the carpet out of your (road) car and you\u2019ll find there is deep insulation on all of the surfaces to insulate the cabin; the roof, the door, everything is insulated to allow the air-conditioning to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour air-conditioning at home doesn\u2019t work real well if you leave the doors and windows open, and obviously we have a lot of air passing in and out. Some of the holes in our windows are regulatory, they need to be there for marshals to remove the windows.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the way our cabins are designed doesn\u2019t lend itself very easily to having air-conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, cool suits are not expected to be a topic for the next several rounds, until the next warm-weather event at Darwin\u2019s Hidden Valley Raceway in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS is looking into the spate of cool suit issues that occurred in the Sunday race at Sydney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-517804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517804","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=517804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}