He was quick out of the box in Friday’s first practice session topping the time sheets with a lap of 1:02.7, three tenths of a second faster than championship leader Shane Van Gisbergen.

Reynolds struggled to find that little bit extra in qualifying for Saturday’s two 35-lap races, but still managed to start from 13th and 10th positions.

The first race saw him pushing his Commodore to its limits just to hang on to his starting position and finish 13th.

Race two was a different matter with some changes made between races giving him the edge.

Reynolds showed his class, making a couple of great passes to pick up another top 10 for 2016, coming across the line eighth.

Sunday’s format was the same as Saturday’s – two qualifying sessions followed by two 35-lap races.

The day was a disaster from lap one in qualifying, with Reynolds only able to secure 19th and 18^th places in qualifying.

“During qualifying the car had really average balance, a lot worse than Saturday,” he said.

“The track has obviously evolved and we didn’t match our car to suit.

“Both sessions were pretty bad because there’s only 10 minutes in between each session so you can’t change much.”

Sunday’s first race was hard work for the Erebus Motorsport driver who could only manage a disappointing 17th.

“We changed our car a little for the race,” he said.

“I think we probably went the wrong direction and it was pretty bad to drive and didn’t look after its tyres well.

“I was able to make up one spot and keep people at bay, but it wasn’t the best.”

Reynolds and his engineers were keen to salvage something from what had started out as a promising weekend.

“We changed the car dramatically for the second race, but I went into turn one and got chopped up by Rick Kelly and got a flat tyre,” he said.

“I came in and had to put a fresh tyre on and went back out and the car was amazing.

“It was so good to drive and it was fast, it did most things you wanted it to.”

Brad Jones Racing had a weekend to forget.

Jason Bright didn’t get to finish a lap on Saturday after being put into the wall at 160km/h by Chris Pither on lap one.

The BJR team worked until 1am to get car repaired for Sunday, but the best Bright could manage was 16th and 19th.

Tim Slade performed only slightly better with 16th his best finish in the weekend’s four races.

Slade made a rare error in qualifying on Saturday that saw the Freightliner car glancing barrier at over 200km/h.