The last thing I want to do is harp on about the soft tyre rule, but really there were two races out there on the Sunday.

For such a hot weekend, it certainly ran hot and cold for us at Queensland Raceway.

I can't complain after winning pole, then scoring my first win at QR on the Saturday and increasing my championship lead at the end of the weekend by 66 points. But 13th place on the Sunday was a bit of a disappointment for me and the team with the soft tyre rule coming back to haunt us.

We used our soft set on the Saturday and then pitted early on Sunday and were forced to take a second stop a lot earlier than planned to try and counteract some handling issues. I realise you can't win them all, so you just have to be consistent and score points which we did.

The last thing I want to do is harp on about the soft tyre rule, but really there were two races out there on the Sunday. You just can't compete against cars on soft tyres. The guys who save up their soft tyres for the second race can go out and set lap records like Russell Ingall did and look good. In fact he could have even won the race if there had been a safety car. Luckily there wasn't a safety car all weekend. I can't remember the last time that happened.

I'm glad to say we won't see soft tyres again until Perth in November then that's it for this year. There was a lot of oil out on the circuit last weekend because several teams had oil pressure issues including us, HRT and FPR. I think it was probably due to the heatwave.

I don't think it will be a problem in the enduros coming up next at Phillip Island and Bathurst. They will be much cooler than Queensland and I'd be very, very surprised if our engine problems resurfaced.

There's been a lot of talk about the schedule for next year, in particular a suggested big break in the middle of the season. The idea is that the two halves of the season can be compacted to provide more regular racing every second weekend rather than three or more weekends apart.

I'm a racer and the more races there are and the closer together the better. I'd race every weekend so long as I got four weeks off in the summer to be with the family. I can see that a big break in the middle of the year would be welcomed by the mechanics, however, I think I'd get awfully bored.

I mentioned in this column recently that I was concerned about Mark Skaife racing in the enduros because in his position as a TV commentator and Car of the Future director he had privileged access to confidential areas of all the race teams. Now it has happened again with retiring category technical director Campbell Little joining FPR.

Campbell was Craig's (Lowndes) race engineer before he took up that job and he copped some unfair criticism about favouritism causing him to announce his retirement. I don't see any problem with engineers and mechanics moving between race teams or into category positions. But it's a different story for officials going to a race team.

As technical director Campbell has had unfettered access to every technical aspect of every car on the grid and now he will be able to use that information to help one team.

I think we should block out certain official positions, especially the technical director, from being employed by a race team for at least a year after they resign.