Or steering was like bench pressing 150kg, breaking is like leg pressing 50kg, and your body feels twice its weight as you pull through corners.

You drink four litres of water, your heart rate sits at 150 beats per minute and you lose 3kg.

You can’t take your eyes off the road, because you are travelling at 250km/hr and other cars are 30cm away and regularly cut you off.

Welcome to David Reynolds’ world.

This weekend he will be among the 54 drivers looking to win the biggest prize in Australian motor racing – the Bathurst 1000 –  his ninth attempt at conquering Mount Panorama.  

Last year things went bad on Friday when he crashed at over 200km.

“You don’t think you’re going fast, until you hit the wall, then all hell breaks loose,” Reynolds said.

“I’ve been scared a few times but that was really scary.”

Reynolds and teammates Mark Winterbottom and Chaz Mostert were in Wodonga on Monday on their way to Bathurst.

The Albury star is confident of his winning chances this weekend.

“This is the best package we’ve ever had going into Bathurst, the cars are fast, the team is strong and I’m probably driving better than I ever have,” Reynolds said.

“So it’s nice to be heading into the biggest race of the year with some confidence.”

Prodrive Racing Australia is after a three-peat, with Mostert winning in 2013 and Mark Winterbottom taking the chequered flag last year.

“I won’t be leaving anything out there,” Reynolds said.

“For the team to win Bathurst three years running would be a huge achievement and just reward for all the guys in the team who work so hard.”

Reynolds was born in Albury, but his talent has taken him to the pinnacle of motor racing in Australia.

Along the way he won two national titles.

In 2004 as a 19-year-old old he won the Australian Formula Ford Championship and then in 2007 the Porsche Carrera Cup, which is one the most competitive sporting titles in the country.

Since 2009, Reynolds has been driving in the V8 Supercars championship and in 2013 earnt a plumb drive with the factory Ford team, where he still is, driving the No.55 Bottle-O Falcon.

Reynolds is well known for his quick sense of humour and witty one-liners.

But this year has seen him get more serious off the track and more aggressive on it.

“I’ve been working hard and have been doing some fight gym stuff,” Reynolds, 30, said.

“I like the fact that’s its one-on-one with no machinery involved, just a test of persons strength and ability.”