The highly-decorated Thomas Randle enters his fifth full-time campaign with Tickford, but is yet to claim an elusive first win despite 10 podiums and three poles. Can he get the monkey off his back in 2026?
The highly-decorated Thomas Randle is looking for a big return in 2026 after a difficult campaign across both Tickford Racing Mustangs last year, finishing seventh overall with two podiums and a pole.
It followed a career best 2024 where he fought for trophies and poles, clinching fifth at the final round.
Randle showed glimpses of his standout speed in 2022, but raced largely without luck and was a victim in several incidents. Come 2023, he scored four podiums and a maiden pole, and jumped 10 spots on his 2022 position.
Tickford signed up Randle in 2021, the year after he won the 2020 Super2 title, all while fighting testicular cancer.
In 2018, Randle was awarded the prestigious Mike Kable Young Gun Award after an impressive rookie season with Tickford Racing where he scored an ARMOR ALL Pole Position and round podium in Perth.
In 2019, Randle claimed his first race and round wins and two more ARMOR ALL Pole Positions on his way to third in the points.
He also made his main game debut in 2019 with the Ford squad in a wildcard entry at The Bend, and competed in his first PIRTEK Enduro Cup with Lee Holdsworth where the pair finished third in the Sandown 500 and third overall in the mini-series.
Randle was a star in karts and made the move into car racing in 2013 in the Australian Formula Ford Series. He returned to that category in '14 and won the series with five race wins in just his second year in car racing.
He then finished runner-up in the 2015 CAMS Jayco Australian Formula 4 Championship and third in that year’s national Sports Sedan series in father Dean’s V8-powered Saab.
He gathered further open-wheel experience overseas in British Formula 3, Formula V8 3.5 Series, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Formula Renault 2.0 NEC as well as LMP3 sportscar competition.
He also won the 2017 Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand. Randle made a one-off appearance in a Rusty French-owned Falcon BF in the 2017 V8 Touring Car Series round at Queensland Raceway.