Skaife should come back

I've always said he retired way too early.  He still has the ability, the speed, attention to detail and is great with car set-up.  That's why we're pairing up again this year for the enduros.

He's comfortable now with his situation and his media career but he still loves driving in good cars, so he has said he will continue to compete in the enduros just so long as it's in a competitive car in a competitive team.

We are in a five-week break between Abu Dhabi and our next race at Adelaide, so there is plenty of time for teams to fix the carnage from Abu Dhabi.

My car copped a bit of damage, but not a lot, from when I ran into the back of Russell Ingall's car. It was my fault and I apologised and now our teams need to get in and straighten it all out.

This weekend I'm down in Melbourne for the opening round of the World Superbikes at Phillip Island as a guest of Suzuki.  Hopefully veteran Aussie Troy Corser can get up there on the top of the podium for the Aussies and finally do it for the BMW team.

They had good bike speed toward the end of last year's season, so let's hope they can continue this season.  I saw Troy and his team at Eastern Creek the day before our V8 Supercar public test day last month.

To see him lapping the Creek on that bike was pretty impressive.  It was also interesting to see Troy do some starts and listen to all the electronic aids at work to help launch the bike and control wheelies.

It sounded just like an F1 car.  Our next team outing is one of our allocated test days. So we'll be out at Queensland Raceway next Thursday  tinkering around with a few things, but nothing major.

It will be good to break up the down time between the first two rounds and keep myself and the car in tune.  Other than that, I've got no major plans for the long break other than catching up with the family, the team and some much-needed farm work after a summer of natural disasters.