Reynolds Believes Erebus can go to the top

David Reynolds believes he and Erebus Motorsport can pull off a championship win this year.

The Bathurst Champion of 2017 enjoyed last season, as it gave the team more momentum and a more solid base in which to build in the season ahead.

While a match for class leaders on their day, consistency is where the squad will focus their efforts in an attempt to eliminate what Reynolds describes as the teams 'slow days'.

"I'd love to win championships, I'd love to be champion of this sport, it's what I came here to do, it's what I'd love to achieve," Said Reynolds.

"Can we do it as a team? Absolutely I think we can.

"I think our car can be one of the fastest on track, we just need to target more consistency," He added.

"If you win every race, you win the championship, but no-one wins every race."

"It was always down to minimising to you slow days and the DNF's.

"We had a few DNF's last year, I had a few mishaps on the track, crashed with other people and whatnot, which really detracted from our points total.

"If your trying to win championships and be a contender at the end of the year you're trying to minimize all that zero."

Erebus finished fifth in the teams’ championship in 2017, promoting them into the middle of pit lane for this years season.

“I think we will be where DJR were last year,” Reynolds said of the team’s new position in the pit lane order.

“We were fifth in the teams’ championship, but when you add all the extra cars I think we’re about ten or twelve grid spots up from where we were last year, so we’re almost the middle of the row.”

The promotion in the pit-lane order has a strategic knock on which it has it's own benefits, particularly in qualifying.

“Last year when we were trying to qualify we were always a lap behind people, we were kind of out of sync; we were worried about on the shorter tracks getting passed on the first lap and stuffing over those people trying to warm our tyres.”

Off track, Erebus has continued consistency among it's engineer staff, with Alistair McVean set to remain with the Bathurst champ and Mirko De Rosa continuing on with the squads second car, which will be driven by youngster Anton De Pasquale.

He won 2 races in the 2017 Dunlop Super-2 Championship, as Reynolds is looking forward to be working with the 22-Year-old.

"I think he'll be good for the team," Said Reynolds.

“He’s a young, enthusiastic, fast, capable driver. He’s been doing (Super2) for a bit, so he should be on the money straight away.”

De Pasquale will receive a brand new Commodore ZB chassis, in line with that the team built for Reynolds ahead of last year’s championship, with both cars set to run in ZB configuration.

The progress made by the team last season, and the pace currently being made, have left Reynolds full of anticipation for the new season.

"Were 10 times better than we were last year ," Stated Reynolds

"This time last year we didn't even have the chassis.

"We got it in February the first or second I think, so we literally 1000 hours trying to put it together in two weeks.

"It was crazy, but we're way ahead of where we were last year."

De Pasqualae’s new car is set for a shakedown test on January 29 ahead of the official Supercars test at Sydney Motorsport Park on February 16.