{"id":297313,"date":"2026-02-23T00:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297313\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:27:14","slug":"supercars-news-broc-feeney-details-hellish-sydney-500-coolsuit-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297313\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Broc Feeney details hellish Sydney 500 coolsuit failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026_NETWORKR_R1_SMSP_1.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Cooked\u2019 Feeney details hellish Sydney 500 cool suit issue\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBroc Feeney pours water over himself following Race 3 of the Dunlop Sydney 500. Image: Network R\/Matthew Christie<\/p>\n<p>Feeney fended off a spirited Kai Allen \u2013 who eventually suffered a mechanical failure \u2013 to take his second win from three starts in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>But it was heat, rather than his rivals, that proved Feeney\u2019s biggest challenge aboard the Red Bull Ampol Racing Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old revealed post-race that he\u2019d been battling with his cool suit in the early stages of a race that began in sweltering conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A clearly distressed Feeney sat down beside his Mustang in victory lane, soon attended to by crew and medical staff as he attempted to cool down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first couple of laps I\u2019m like, \u2018man, I\u2019m getting heated\u2019. My body was getting hotter and I could feel the tubes warming up my body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was playing around with it and then obviously we got the plastic bag in the front, so the car was overheating as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Safety Car I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it worked for about a lap, but after that I had Kai all over me so I couldn\u2019t keep doing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did it again on the in-lap and it started cooling me down again. It\u2019s obviously hot here today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked hard for that one\u2026 sorry I\u2019m so cooked but I had nothing left there at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry I couldn\u2019t do a burnout for all the Ford fans as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance service staff also attended Feeney\u2019s BP Cooldown room commitments ahead of the podium ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Feeney\u2019s teammate Will Brown also suffered in the heat and was taken to the medical centre after finishing 18th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2026-sydney-500-sunday-race-3-results-highlights-video-reaction-broc-feeney-wins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feeney wins slippery Sydney 500 closer, agony for Allen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285241\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/285241.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney pours water over himself following Race 3 of the Dunlop Sydney 500. Image: Network R\/Matthew Christie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17209,111,139,69,213,29474],"class_list":{"0":"post-297313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-broc-feeney","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-triple-eight-race-engineering"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}