{"id":748675,"date":"2026-06-20T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748675\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:51:18","slug":"supercars-news-djr-issues-health-update-on-brodie-kostecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748675\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: DJR issues health update on Brodie Kostecki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kostecki finished third in today\u2019s 200-kilometre Supercars race of the betr Darwin Triple Crown but was absent from the podium celebrations and media commitments.<\/p>\n

Instead he was undergoing treatment in the on-site medical centre where he\u2019d been rushed immediately after getting out of his Shell Mustang.<\/p>\n

He is understood to have been treated for dehydration by way of a drip before being released back into the care of the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as he jumped out of the car we put him in a medical car and sent him to the medical centre,\u201d explained DJR team manager Tom Moore.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just needed some fluids pumped into him and then he\u2019ll have an early night and head back to the hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kostecki did suffer a drinks system issue during the race, however Moore believes it is the virus he carried into the weekend that was the primary problem.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHis water bottle wasn\u2019t flowing as good as we would have hoped,\u201d explained Moore.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something in his helmet. We checked as soon as the car came back and it\u2019s flowing fine from the car side, so there\u2019s a blockage in his cheek pad somewhere that\u2019s stopped that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think his condition, as unwell as he\u2019s been, to race like that, I think it\u2019s not unsurprising to see him needing a top up of fluids and to be looked after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore also paid tribute to the toughness of Kostecki, saying he \u201cthrives in adversity\u201d and highlighting the podium effort as one of the gutsiest performances he\u2019s seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up there,\u201d said Moore. \u201cI\u2019ve seen him under some adverse conditions, whether they\u2019re stuff going on around him in the team or his life, or physically like that, but that\u2019s up there.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoupled with where we are at, in Darwin in the heat, that\u2019s definitely pretty tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t in a flash way this morning and he\u2019s been looked after throughout the entire day. [Supercars medical delegate] Dr Carl [Le] met him as soon as we got here to make sure he was fine to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he\u2019s not been put in any danger at any point throughout the day. But to come out of the truck and jump straight in the car and put a performance in like that, it\u2019s pretty inspiring for everyone in the team to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kostecki rests next to his car before Race 2 of the Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley. Kostecki…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2497,359672,43,44,12357,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-748675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-darwin-triple-crown","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-slot1","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748675","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=748675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}