Fresh look for Todd Kelly Nissan V8 at Winton

The livery change is part of Kelly’s all-encompassing backing from the carsales network, which includes the likes of bikesales.com.au, which ran on the car at Phillip Island, and trucksales.com.au, which has taken larger branding and inspired new paintwork for Winton.

Kelly will even jump behind the wheel of a big rig as part of the collaboration, with plans for him to do a lap of the circuit in the team’s Mack Super-Liner prime mover tomorrow.

Pumped for new surface

Despite Winton being the team’s test track, and somewhere all Victorian drivers have done plenty of laps, Kelly says he has a renewed excitement about heading there this year. And it’s all about the grippy new surface.

“I’m excited to roll it out on track, not only because of the new look but also because of the new surface,” he said.

“I had an absolute ball there in testing, the cars were really fast and well balanced, we’re aiming to carry that into the race meeting.

“I never thought a track could be transformed like that. Winton was one of those places where you had to drive at 70 per cent to do a nice clean, fast lap.

“I like ringing the most out of the car and driving it hard. The surface has flipped the track over and made it one of the better tracks we drive on now. You can really hook in the with car and be precise more than we ever have been able to before.

“It’ll be really exciting qualify on that surface and also race as well.”

Winton is where Nissan took what is so far its only V8 Supercars win, thanks to James Moffat in 2013.