Hazelwood, who filled in for Brodie Kostecki<\/a> in Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing\u2019s #17, noted that bigger picture changes amid a broader sporting movement surrounding athlete welfare may force a rethink.<\/p>\n The Undercut \u2013 How hot is too hot?<\/p>\n The Undercut is back for another week, downloading a hot weekend in the Top End for Supercars!<\/p>\n Within Australian motorsport, concussion rules involving a 14-day exclusion period<\/a> were introduced last year, and heat stress has now become a focal point. Supercars implemented new driver cooling rules in May which have since been bolstered<\/a>, and teams have been advised on prevention\/management protocols<\/a> prior to Townsville.<\/p>\n \u201cThe chat that\u2019s going on with that, that might have to enforce teams to start thinking about a reserve driver role,\u201d Hazelwood said on The Undercut.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think it certainly doesn\u2019t need to have the same tacky vibe that say a Formula 1 reserve driver has where you\u2019re basically standing at the pits like a lost soul all weekend pretending that you\u2019re going to be driving a race car. I don\u2019t think we should be going down that hard.<\/p>\n \u201cI think be aware of the situation, like I knew Brodie was ill but never thought I\u2019d be jumping in the car. At least I was there, ready and able to do the job.<\/p>\n \u201cI think most co-drivers with most teams now are sort of travelling around with the circus to some degree, whether it\u2019s in support categories or other commitments within the sport, everyone is pretty proactive.<\/p>\n \u201cSo watch this space, I guess.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think it will probably be more governed if the rules start to change, and that will probably move the goalposts on what teams have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Hazelwood and Winterbottom were at Hidden Valley on Trans Am and television duties, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CHAOTIC four-hour period at the Darwin Triple Crown in which not one, but two substitute drivers were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-772007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772007","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=772007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hazelwood_MH6_2878-1024x576.jpg\")
Todd Hazelwood. Pic: Supplied\/Mark Horsburgh<\/p>\n