{"id":665208,"date":"2026-05-12T03:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:46:18","slug":"aussie-f1-legend-mark-webber-lends-helping-hand-to-supercars-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665208\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie F1 legend Mark Webber lends helping hand to Supercars champ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Webber, left, with Oscar Piastri. Image: XPB Images <\/p>\n

The 2024 Supercars champion has twice this season required medical attention following races in which his cool suit has failed.<\/p>\n

Brown is particularly susceptible to the problem, which struck at the season opener in Sydney and again at Taupo last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI was shitty after that race. I was just annoyed because I got cooked again,\u201d said Brown of Taupo on the latest episode of his Lucky Dogs Podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Mark Webber called me when I was in New Zealand, which was really cool because it turns out guys like that are following what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said he\u2019s worked with this guy, Simon, that did a lot of the training with the Porsche guys when he was in LMP and works with Oscar [Piastri] now as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark was like\u2026 \u2018I think Supercars and everyone in general can do a bit better job on the heat side of it if these cool suit failures happen\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Webber arranged for Brown to undergo testing with the trainer in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do this test, which is two hours walking at a certain speed in 40 degree heat and they measure your core temperature and all that sort of stuff,\u201d Brown explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey teach you how you should train for heat stuff and how your body\u2019s reacting to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can actually have episodes where, if you cook yourself, your body doesn\u2019t regulate it as good anymore, so checking for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I didn\u2019t read the fine print.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown said he only discovered how his temperate was going to be taken once he was at the testing facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was swallowing this probe and they\u2019re like, \u2018no, it\u2019s the rectal probe\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018oh, far out\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Will Brown suffered another cool suit failure at Taupo. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Despite the discomfort, Brown believes the testing will prove worthwhile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very glad I did it because of the amount of learning that I got out of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust the way you can heat train, the way you can prepare\u2026 any sort of pre-cooling, different ways to do that, how they\u2019re doing it overseas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was extremely valuable to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown also reported that Triple Eight has gotten to the bottom of the cool suit issues that have hit both cars in races so far this season.<\/p>\n

Teammate Broc Feeney was also in visible distress after the Sydney opener<\/a>, albeit able to recover far quicker and without attending medical.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the reservoir was quite small on ours [cooling system], and when you put another shirt on and it had to fill that shirt back up [there was an issue],\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was just a small thing on our side that probably we weren\u2019t doing, not a good enough job, but just didn\u2019t know enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Sydney, we bought the best cool suits you could get and then obviously we didn\u2019t know that. So I think everything\u2019s rectified on that side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supercars is expected to tighten its cooling regulations ahead of the next hot race in Darwin in June, with chilled helmet air and the cool suit required to be working.<\/p>\n

Previously only one of the three items \u2013 which also includes chilled seat air \u2013 had to be in operation at any given time.<\/p>\n


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