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The usually reserved star has hit out at teams \u201cwhinging\u201d to Supercars and blaming their own equipment failures on the category\u2019s regulations.<\/p>\n Waters\u2019 teammate Thomas Randle suffered heat stress following a cool suit failure last time out in Darwin and was medically ruled out of the Sunday race.<\/p>\n Supercars faced criticism in the wake of the case<\/a> as its new heat policy was not enacted due to the weather forecast having been just shy of the threshold.<\/p>\n Triple Eight boss Mark Dutton, whose team has had multiple failures this year, called for Supercars to mandate a control cooling system to help eliminate issues.<\/a><\/p>\n The category has followed up with a minor addition to cooling requirements post-Darwin<\/a>, while its medical delegate Dr Carl Le issued an advisory note to teams and drivers.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think the whole thing has been blown out of proportion by the media,\u201d said Waters on the latest Drivers\u2019 Only Podcast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cThese Gen3 cars are way cooler than the Gen2 cars and way cooler than when I did the NASCAR Truck race of the [NASCAR] Cup cars.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s obviously been a lot put on Supercars for them to do or change something but it\u2019s not really their problem.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it needs to be put back on the drivers and also the teams to do a better job.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a driver, you go to Darwin, and you know that it\u2019s going to be hot, so you go do heat training, prepare yourself for that event.<\/p>\n \u201cYou go to Adelaide, it\u2019s 40 degrees, go get in the sauna, get yourself ready before that weekend, hydrate before the weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cThe same with the teams, the cooling system is open, you can run the ChillOut system, or you can run the dry ice and you can develop it.<\/p>\n \u201cBut don\u2019t whinge to Supercars that it\u2019s their issue. I think the teams just need to look at themselves.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you go to Darwin, make sure you plug in the cool suit, make sure the unit is serviced and get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Thomas Randle with teammate Cam Waters and Supercars\u2019 Tim Edwards at Hidden Valley. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n Waters said that different heat tolerances between drivers means black flagging a car when a cool suit fails is not the right approach.<\/p>\n The Tickford driver was forced by official to pit back in 2019 when his cool suit failed during a scorching Adelaide 500 race.<\/p>\n \u201cI was fine, I would\u2019ve got the race done. I\u2019m still dirty that that happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing is I\u2019ve had races at Winton where it\u2019s 12 degrees, and the car\u2019s hard to drive. That\u2019s harder than racing at Adelaide when it\u2019s 40 sometimes.<\/p>\n \u201cIf a car is hard to drive, sometimes that cooks you more. Our car was fast, but they were hard to drive [in Darwin], so maybe that\u2019s contributed to Tom as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Waters said he had not spoken at length with Randle about his failure, but suggested it was due to the suit not being plugged into the car properly.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SCA-1196-Wk1-Cat-BPO-Speedcafe_728x90.jpg\")
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