Team 18 took up an option to extend its contract with Reynolds<\/a>, who will continue with the team as it transitions into being the General Motors homologation squad.<\/p>\nIt means stability at the team for the foreseeable future, with Anton De Pasquale currently on a long-term deal too.<\/p>\n
Reynolds is one of the most popular and experienced drivers in the Supercars paddock, and with a contract extension comes pressure to perform.<\/p>\n
With one round remaining in the Enduro Cup before the Finals Series begins in earnest, Reynolds sits 18th in the drivers\u2019 championship and 274 below the elimination line.<\/p>\n
Teammate De Pasquale, meanwhile, is seventh in the standings and looking likely to progress to the first round of the Finals Series.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery exciting news,\u201d said Reynolds of his contract extension.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime you get a contract extension or renewal it\u2019s a good feeling, so I just need to pay everyone with some results.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement came on the eve of the biggest race of the year, the Bathurst 1000, where Reynolds will be joined by Lee Holdsworth.<\/p>\n
They head to The Mountain off the back of a 13th place finish in The Bend 500.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to Bathurst, our next round,\u201d said Reynolds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got one of my good mates, Lee Holdsworth, doing it with me and we\u2019re just itching to get out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a nice thing to get locked away before going to the biggest race of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really matter at the end of the day, because you still go there with the best intentions regardless of what\u2019s happening around your life at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s the standalone event where it doesn\u2019t really matter, you just turn up and give it one million percent, because it\u2019s such a good race and it means so much to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The build-up to the Bathurst 1000 will include Reynolds taking on former Olympic sprinter and Seven presenter Matt Shirvington in another car versus man race.<\/p>\n
The last time the pair went head-to-head in a 20-metre dash, Reynolds won.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast time it was so close and I just won, but this time I reckon I\u2019m going to have to hose him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Reynolds in the #20 Team 18 Chevrolet Camaro at The Bend 500. Team 18 took up an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[215,29707,111,139,69,213,29709],"class_list":{"0":"post-63387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bathurst-1000","9":"tag-david-reynolds","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-team-18"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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