Buy tickets<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt just didn\u2019t feel like it was pumping properly. And then as I went through the warm-up lap I saw water in the bottom of the passenger foot tray.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cool suit failed on the warm-up lap, so it was very challenging conditions. Seventy laps with no cool suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy core temp felt really hot. I was really just trying to breathe, trying to get oxygen in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran out of water because I was trying to get as much water as I could. I ran the visor open to try and get air in.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, your mind goes off from driving the car, technique-wise, like making sure you nail everything, to just trying to survive and get some points.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s one round you don\u2019t want to have cool suit failure, especially on the warm-up lap, it\u2019s this place.<\/p>\n
\u201c[At the end] I actually thought Cam [Waters] won the race. I said [on the radio] on the cool down lap, \u2018congrats to Cam for the win\u2019, but he\u2019s actually finished second.\u201d<\/p>\n
Randle admitted there were times in the race he didn\u2019t think he\u2019d physically make the finish, although he said he was determined to battle through the pain.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did a lot of pre-cooling stuff with Brad Sampson, our physio beforehand, and I\u2019ve done a lot of prep for this round,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just glad we did all that. I think that got me through.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just didn\u2019t want to quit. I just wanted to not give up and finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
After braving it out to the end, Randle was rushed to the medical centre alongside Brodie Kostecki for treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually end up lying down in the garage [before going to the medical centre],\u201d said Randle.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The medical staff] didn\u2019t give me a drip, it was just about cooling me down. Taking fluids and checking blood oxygen and ice under the armpits and groin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t stand up, I had to lay down for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Randle was assisted by medical staff after Race 2 of the Darwin Triple Crown. The Tickford driver\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,359672,806,805,803,804,9910,85,107489],"class_list":["post-749130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-darwin-triple-crown","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot2","tag-sports","tag-thomas-randle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749130","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=749130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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