New colours and matching cars

Unlike some of the other teams with different livery for each car according to the driver, I think we will be trying for a uniform team image.

Vodafone is pulling out of a lot of its sponsorship commitments at the end of the season, so we have to find another major sponsor for next year. Our team principal, Roland Dane, plays his cards close to his chest but he must be closing in on a deal because he cancelled his trip to Italy last week to watch Casey Stoner race the MotoGP at Mugello.

He's a big fan of Casey, motorbikes and Mugello so this must be important. Roland's prime focus at the moment is making sure we get another sponsor. I'm sure having separate car sponsors and different colours is an option, but understanding Roland his priority decision is a single replacement sponsor for both cars.

It makes the team look sharper and cleaner. From a practical point of view it's also a lot easier to carry spare body parts when you have the same colours. Speaking of Casey, my race engineer, Jeromy (CORRECT!) Moore or "JJ", was at the Mugello race and I've seen the Facebook photos of him riding on the back of Casey's pit bike.

Since Casey tested one of our cars last year the whole team has kept in touch with him. I'll be keen to catch up with JJ when he gets back to see if he has any insight into Casey's plans for next year since he's announced he's retiring from MotoGP.

We're currently in the middle of a four-week break between the Townsville and the Ipswich rounds and we don't start testing and preparing for QR until next week. Meanwhile there's been a lot of talk about the incident at Townsville where Paul Morris took advantage of a loophole in the rules to run a combination of soft and hard tyres on Steve Owen's car.

I think it was quite clever of him and quite sloppy of the rule writers. Paul was good at keeping it a secret until he needed to use it and good luck to him. We found a similar loophole last year where we ran our used soft tyre and it worked to our benefit.

The officials again were quickly on to the loophole and closed it for the Sunday race, but the loophole shouldn't have been there in the first place. We're over halfway through the year and it's just too late in the season to be having rule changes.