Eau de V8 Supercar sweat

But I won't play dirty and there are no team orders as such.  There has been no discussion yet about team orders or strategies. We'll have to see where Jamie, James, Frosty and I are positioned after qualifying on the Saturday before we even think about that.

No doubt we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but there won't be any orders to play dirty.  I'll do the best I can to help Jamie, but I won't change my style for this weekend.  I will attack James as hard as always and if he leaves a door open I'll put my nose up the inside and have a go.

Jamie is in a position where he has nothing to lose and will come out firing this weekend.  He's been doing all the usual PR stuff with me this week in the lead-up to the finale at Homebush, but he's also been very focussed on overtaking James to win the title.

Jamie was pretty confident coming out of Sandown where the car was working well for him, but the red flags didn't help our cause.  The media pressure is on both of them, but I think Jamie will handle it a bit better because he's been here before.

However, in the past two years he's come into this weekend leading, not chasing, so he'll have a different mindset this time.  I think the weather will play a big part in the two 250km races. It's been raining pretty heavily all week and is expected to continue up to and maybe into the weekend.

Rain always mixes things up.  The wet conditions will mean a lot more strategy over the weekend with decisions on wet tyres and slicks.  We know what the track is like in the dry, but we have no idea of its grip levels and characteristics in the wet.

For one thing, pit lane is downhill and it might be a bit awkward pulling up correctly in your pit bay.  The surface looks grippy in some sections, but dubious in other sections where we run across some old bitumen.

I can only speak for myself, but the idea is to stay off the concrete walls. That will be difficult for Jamie and James who will be in a pretty heated battle to maintain track position.  Courtney won the Sunday race last year and the DJR cars go well in the wet so he will be confident.  But Jamie has also done well in the wet and while he didn't have the speed he wanted last year, he's pretty confident about his car speed now.

The team PR machines have been running hot in the lead-up to our series finale.  One thing Team Vodafone has done to get a bit of interest going its to launch a Australia's first V8 fragrance.

It's called Eau De Engine, but it should be called Eau De Pit Crew Sweat.  You can't buy it. It's actually just a joke and a marketing tool to raise some interest.  We've made 200 bottles of the fragrance, done some video and photos and we're giving it away to media and VIPs.

The idea is you spray it on and smell like a Supercar pit garage with oil and rubber odours. It's quite disgusting. It makes you smell like a grease monkey.  I've also spent a lot of time signing my book which has just gone into its second printing.

When I wrote it I didn't know how successful it was going to be. While I'm not yet prepared to write my autobiography yet because I still have a lot of years of racing yet and hopefully some other career in motorsport after that, I can now see that there might be another book or two in me.

I could start with a follow up that includes this year's enduro wins at Phillip Island and Bathurst or delve back in history more and do my early days of racing.  There's still a lot to be said about my first shift of allegiances from Holden to Ford.