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<\/a><\/p>\nKostecki withdrew from the event on Sunday morning, having required medical attention in the aftermath of the previous day\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
The driver is known to have been suffering from a virus throughout race week, which meant he was absent from the Thursday Track to Town festivities.<\/p>\n
Kostecki endured the Saturday race in sweltering conditions without a working drink bottle and was subsequently put on a drip by medical staff.<\/p>\n
However, it\u2019s understood the reason for his shock Sunday morning decision to withdraw was due to back pain.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what caused that issue or whether it is the subject of ongoing treatment.<\/p>\n
Story said in the latest PG and the Doc episode that Kostecki was excused of commercial duties with the team this week while he continues his recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking after Brodie through the course of the weekend was something that was a priority for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that his drink failed on Saturday only compounded the trouble he was in.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in good shape Saturday night, he had some fluids put in him and bounced back well. But Sunday morning, he was in all sorts of trouble.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo make that call (was a) super-big deal for us, but we all immediately jumped into \u2018OK, how do we make sure he\u2019s alright, let\u2019s get him back to [Brisbane], let\u2019s think about what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n
Story stressed that Kostecki is \u201cfocused on going racing again in Townsville\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to give him time to get himself into tip-top shape, and that\u2019s really what we\u2019ve done,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to talk to some of our commercial partners; he had commitments this week that we\u2019ve been able to get him out of for the purposes of focusing on his recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki at the Darwin Triple Crown. Image: Supplied Kostecki withdrew from the event on Sunday morning, having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,2497,2498,12357,85],"class_list":["post-761332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-dick-johnson-racing","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761332","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=761332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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