It is because the final weekend of the five-round national series will be held at the new The Bend Motorsport Park – a track which many in his category will never have seen previously.

Last Thursday Anderson took his Kenwood Homes Ford Falcon to the venue to get the chance to familiarise himself. He was certainly glad he did.

“We went down just to trial it out, see what all the hype is about and what 28 million dollars buys you,” he said. “It was very flash and a good track.

“It was definitely something different, there wouldn’t be another track in Australia I don’t think that would be the same as it, it’s very unique the way they’ve built it.

“A lot of the corners are blind, you can’t see the exit of the corner when you’re in it because there’s so much undulation in the track.

“It makes it difficult to try and get your apexes nailed.

“As soon as we did the first session – all the drivers that were there from the Supercars and Carrera Cup as well – we all went ‘Wow’. The first session, in 20 minutes, we were still working out which way to turn.”

Negotiating the 18 corners of the track set up the series will use will be the key for Anderson as he looks to improve on his current seventh outright placing in the Australian V8 Touring Cars championship.

If he can qualify well then earn podium finishes in the two seven-lap and one nine-lap races conducted, he is a good chance to climb inside the top five overall.

That’s where Anderson’s reconnaissance will help.

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“In a lap time, compared to the amount of kilometres for the race track, it’s probably technically a slow track, it’s a slow track compared to somewhere like Phillip Island,” he said.

“It has a lot of slower corners, corners that come back on yourself rather than flowing corners.

“Most of the corners at of most other track you go to, you can go ‘Okay, well we turn right here’, but this track there are that many corners going every which way. The problem is there are a fair few tracks in one, different set ups, so there are different corners going different ways which throw you off.

“I think that people who haven’t been to the track before this weekend, they’re going to struggle. It sounds silly to say it’s a track that you don’t 100 percent know where to go, but the corners are blind, you can’t see until you get up over the hill which way you are going.

“There are also that many corners in the track, it’s hard to remember them all as well.

“Eastern Creek has 12 corners that are pretty easy to see and you can usually pin-point things pretty well, this track has 18 corners and it’s difficult to get your car set up too.”

The first of three races for the round will be conducted on Saturday from 12.40pm.

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