This Sunday is a return to the single, 300km race format after several sprint rounds at Barbagallo and Hidden Valley (and Pukekohe Rnd2). The teams will be trying to ensure reliability as they need to finish to score points, meaning a DNF at this round could end Marcos Ambroses's, Steven Richards, Rick Kelly's, Greg Murphy's or Jason Brights championship hopes at the end of the year with no chance to recover as Steven Richards did last round after being spun out in the first race. The Queensland teams have been busy testing earlier last week and DJR are hoping for some trong results after a strong finish last round from Steven Johnson after being in the top 10 of the time sheets and doing 2 back to back testing days last week (only 6 test days are allocated each year). SBR should be the strongest as not only have they got the homeground advantage, they too tested Monday week ago and came away with pleasing gains in car speed, and Marcos Ambrose, the leading SBR driver not only leads the championship, is the defending champ, and the most skilled Ford driver at this time it seems. Russel Ingall, the second SBR driver and last years Queensland 300 winner should be looking at a good result as well.