Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThere’s a unique connection with the Wallabies, with Doohan, who made his debut last year with Alphine, going to school with prop Zane Nonggorr on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
The son of legendary motor-racing driver Mick shared his own Rugby experience of playing outside centre before turning his sole focus to karting and earning a spot on the Formula 1 grid.<\/p>\n
“It’s a little bit different but the same sort of keenness and pressure, I remember being a kid\u00a0before rugby on Saturday morning, struggling to get to sleep and for the excitement\u00a0and for the nerves,” Doohan said to Wallabies Media.<\/p>\n
“It’s great meeting fellow Aussies, high performance athletes that are pushing towards the same goals, just in a different industry.<\/p>\n
It was an educational moment for McDermott, learning how the cars get assembled on the day after their extensive travel days to get them from location to location.<\/p>\n
“[I] learned a hell of a lot being first time in Formula One, meeting the Haas drivers,” McDermott said.<\/p>\n
“Terrific fellas, really appreciative that they spent time showing us around the garage, seeing them assemble the cars, and just sharing a couple of stories around footy and also Formula One driving.<\/p>\n
“It was great to get amongst it.”<\/p>\n
For Wright, it was all about the milliseconds and micro-moments that separate success and failure.<\/p>\n
“We think our game’s made up of small margins, but even smaller in their department,” he remarked.<\/p>\n
“They were putting the carbon fibre underplate on the car and he was talking about microseconds on each little thing\u00a0that are on their car. So, it was pretty phenomenal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallabies Tate McDermott and Tom Wright have traded the wing for front wings as the pair linked up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-521287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521287","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=521287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}