Albury's David Reynolds sets sights on maiden Supercars title

Reynolds finished fifth in last year’s series, and, but for a few average performances mid-year, he would have joined eventual champion Scott Mclaughlin and Red Bull’s Shane Van Gisbergen in fighting it out for the title at the final event in Newcastle – a race that Reynolds won.

He returns to the track in Adelaide this weekend for the start of the 2019 season and is feeling like his Erebus Motorsport team can take the next step in becoming a championship team.

"Last year, we had a good start to the year and very strong finish," Reynolds said.

"It was just few races in the middle of the year where our results weren’t good enough.

"It's such a competitive category that you can’t afford to have too many bad rounds.

"But we have learnt from that and this a great team," he said.

After winning Bathurst the year before, Reynolds and Erebus proved last year that they are more than a one-trick pony.

He finished 2018 with 23 top-ten finishes including nine podiums and three race wins, to firmly place himself among the serious championship challengers.

“I’m not really worried about the expectations and stuff like that," Reynolds said.

"Every time I go out I try to do my best regardless – it doesn’t matter what people are saying or not saying, I just always try my hardest to get the best result I can.

"But it’s great for us to be thinking that we expect ourselves to be competitive.”

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A number of changes will throw in a few challenges for all teams this year with Ford having introduced the Mustang to replace the Falcon and the category mandating all teams use a simpler and cheaper suspension system to what has been allowed for the past 10 years.

“It’s a whole new ball game with the new suspension, I think it will be a few rounds before you’ll be able to tell just how your year is going to roll out," Reynolds said.

"The Mustang looks like a good package.

"If you looked at the Fords, they were all in the top-ten at the test day – that wouldn’t have happened for maybe three or four years, so they have found some gains with the new shape to give them better aero.”

Reynolds went within a whisker of winning the opening race at Adelaide last year and is looking forward to getting back there this weekend.

“I love Adelaide – good city, great track, hard, tough races," he said.

"It’s challenging but I love it, and having been so competitive there last year was good.

"But as I said, there’s been a lot of change over the off-season, so we won’t know how we’ll go until we get on track.” 

Drivers have 250km races on Saturday and Sunday.