It's because the man who will steer the Monster Engery Mustang knows he can't change what has already happened, but he can have a say in what is to come.

And given what Waters has done already this year, he has every reason to hope what is to come in the Bathurst 1000 will be good.

Waters heads to the season-ending Bathurst 1000 sitting third in the championship, his run of good form including a podium hat-trick at last month's penultimate round at The Bend.

There he snagged a pair of thirds plus a win, that adding to five prior podiums. It has him on track for his best ever finish in the championship.

"It's obviously a bit of confidence getting the win [at The Bend] and just that good consistency that we've had this year gives us a fair bit of confidence going into Bathurst too," Waters said.

"There's not one big thing I've done differently this year, just little things that we've probably tuned up, my engineer and I have been working really closely together so that relationship has probably got stronger this year.

"There are no golden bullets anymore, it's just all those little one percenters which add up and we've been chipping away at those. I think that's where the consistency has come from."

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This year will mark Waters' ninth start at Bathurst. While he has often headed to the Mount with words such as 'potential' and 'contender' being used in reference to his chances, thus far a fourth placing in 2016 is his best result.

His bad luck the past three years has been well documented as he has finished 16^th, 23^rd and 20^th . In 2017 he had has rear wing torn off after an incident at turn one.

In 2018 Waters watched on as co-driver David Russell hit the outside wall at Forrest's Elbow after being clipped by Chaz Mostert as he tried to dive down the inside.

Then last year Waters was forced into the gravel at the end of Conrod Straight after Mostert made contact with his car after close to five hours of racing.

Waters was certainly frustrated at the time by those incidents, but he's put them behind him.

"I've always been in pretty good positions every year but just things have gone wrong. Obviously Chaz and I have had a few incidents up there, but it's something we are not really thinking about," he said.

"Those things do happen in motor racing so we are just going to focus on the job at hand and trying to have a fast car, if we can do that then hopefully we don't get caught up in any incidents.

"I think it's just another shot at it, you can't dwell on the past because it's already happened, you've just got to focus on what's happening right in front of you and that's what we are going to do.

"You kind of make your own luck in some ways, if you do have a fast car and don't have to race people then you're not going to be caught up in incidents."

Waters, who has the services of two-time Bathurst winner Will Davison, is rated a $5 chance of success.

"It's an amazing place, an amazing event and yeah I'm super, super pumped for it," he said.

Opening practice for this year's event will commence at 9.30am on Thursday, October 15. The race itself gets the green light at 11.30am on Sunday, October 18.