FORMER Tickford Racing enduro stalwart James Moffat has lauded a change in approach that has kept Cam Waters in the Supercars title fight despite the Monster Mustang lacking its usual outright speed.

Moffat, however, warns that without a serious uplift in pace, the ultimate championship prize will remain out of reach.

Consistency has been the name of the game for Waters in 2026.

It’s how he holds fourth in the points despite being ranked 10th on qualifying averages.

Waters has long been one of Supercars’ premier performers over a single lap – as evidenced by him winning the season pole awards in 2022 and ’24 – but he has not had a front-row start since last year’s Repco Bathurst 1000.

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The last of his 32 career poles came 47 races ago. The longest pole drought of his career was a 50-race stretch from Pukekohe 2017 to Townsville 2019.

Moffat, who spent eight years co-driving at Tickford including four with Waters, weighed in on the situation via the latest episode of The Undercut.

“For me, the consistency is definitely keeping him in that top four, top five at the moment and I think probably we have seen a bit of a change in Cam in his approach,” said Moffat.

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“I think in years gone by, he would have found himself in an incident which would have been a race-ending incident or he would have dumped a heap of points and he wouldn’t be sitting fourth, because his frustration might have got the better of him.

“I think that’s definitely a change in his approach.

“But the speed just isn’t there at the moment for them.”

And that ultimately spells trouble.

“To be a factor in the championship, you’re going to need speed. The consistency will (only) get you so far,” he elaborated.

“At the moment based on what we’ve seen, the sample size we’ve had this year, they’re not good enough to win the championship.”

Waters’ teammate Thomas Randle is 13th in the points.

Cam Waters and James Moffat combined for Great Race podiums in 2021 and 2022. Pic: Supplied