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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeam 18’s David Reynolds at Sandown Raceway. Image: Kassandra Brumley<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeam 18’s David Reynolds at Sandown Raceway. Image: Kassandra Brumley<\/p>\n
Anton De Pasquale topped Practice 1 at the Penrite Oil Sandown 500 driving the #18 Chevrolet Camaro before Reynolds responded with the top time in Practice 2 onboard the #20 car.<\/p>\n
Next year, Reynolds will become the most mature driver on the Supercars grid, but tapped into his child-like antics with what could prove to be one of his more memorable media sessions.<\/p>\n
Reynolds began with a fairly tame evaluation of the day, before devolving into a conspiracy-based assessment of his speed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been really good today,\u201d said the 40-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe rolled out of the truck pretty fast, pretty speedy and actually made the car better.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally that\u2019s one of the hardest things to do \u2013 is make the car better, but that\u2019s what everyone tries to do, but it\u2019s actually really hard to do. We did that today and profited.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put it down to me and Anton just diving really hard into the conspiracies the last few weeks,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been sending each other so much rubbish that it\u2019s just fried our brains and we\u2019re so stupid we go so fast now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
At the Gold Coast 500, Reynolds remarked, \u201cGenerally, the dumber you are, the faster you go\u201d and leaned into that narrative at the Sandown 500.<\/p>\n
Chaz Mostert, who was sat next to Reynolds, said he felt \u201cquite smart\u201d by comparison.<\/p>\n
When the floor was opened to questions from journalists, Reynolds was asked what conspiracies he and De Pasquale had been diving into.<\/p>\n
But Reynolds refrained from divulging for fear of getting in trouble. He earlier prefaced the conference by stating he might say something that would get him fined.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been eye-opening, let\u2019s just say that,\u201d said Reynolds. \u201cThere have been so many.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mostert egged Reynolds on, but the 2017 Bathurst 1000 winner said his response would \u201cWipe me off the planet\u201d and that he was \u201cnot in a safe space.\u201d<\/p>\n
In any case, the two Team 18 drivers had established themselves as the quickest \u2013 albeit, not through any meaningful preparation, according to Reynolds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting on the apron this morning in P1 going, \u2018I\u2019ve done no onboard camera work\u2019 or anything like that. I was so unprepared,\u201d said Reynolds.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you\u2019re just lucky to drive fast cars.\u201d<\/p>\n
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David Reynolds at Sandown Raceway. Image: Jack Martin<\/p>\n
Reynolds did eventually offer a sensible answer, noting that there was some apprehension going into Saturday when the cars will switch from the soft to the super soft compound tyre.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow we\u2019ll be on a completely different tyre to what we used today,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally, our engineers have been really good at that switch, so hopefully we can actually have a good day tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it was rolling onto the same tyre, we would expect to have pretty good results tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen obviously on Sunday, the track is going to be wildly different from all the running that we\u2019ve done tomorrow, so it could be a completely different kettle of fish for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cars are so sensitive that day in, day out, it\u2019s hard to adjust your car. They\u2019re so sensitive with droop restriction and all this stuff that they have now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really, really hard to be fast all the time. That\u2019s what I find, and that\u2019s what the timesheets suggest \u2014 unless you\u2019re Chaz Mostert.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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