{"id":487998,"date":"2026-06-21T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487998\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:24:15","slug":"supercars-news-mark-winterbottom-replaces-thomas-randle-for-darwin-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487998\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Mark Winterbottom replaces Thomas Randle for Darwin finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Randle has withdrawn after feeling unwell in the aftermath of a Saturday race in which he suffered a cool suit failure.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old completed qualifying duties this morning before reporting to the medical centre for further checks.<\/a><\/p>\n

Winterbottom, who will co-drive with Cam Waters in the Enduro Cup, is at Hidden Valley on TV duties.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll mark 2015 Supercars champion Winterbottom\u2019s first single-driver race start since his farewell event with Team 18 at the 2024 Adelaide 500.<\/p>\n

Winterbottom\u2019s last single-driver race appearance with Tickford came at the 2018 Newcastle 500.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old was still on TV duties in the moments before the Super2 Series support race before getting the call-up to drive.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe spoke on the grid that Thomas isn\u2019t feeling very well, so I\u2019m going to ditch this shirt and put a race suit on,\u201d Winterbottom said on the broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll see me on track pretty soon. I\u2019ll be hanging on for dear life, but if I could pick a track, it\u2019d be Darwin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Randle\u2019s withdrawal is the second of the day, with Brodie Kostecki having earlier been replaced by his co-driver Todd Hazelwood.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kostecki had carried an illness into the weekend and also required medical attention after finishing third in the Saturday race.<\/p>\n

Hazelwood qualified 13th while Winterbottom will start from the back of the 24-car field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Winterbottom. Image: Supplied Randle has withdrawn after feeling unwell in the aftermath of a Saturday race in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,9335,213],"class_list":["post-487998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487998","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=487998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}