Pither: Break will benefit Team Sydney

Team Sydney can turn the negative of the coronavirus-enforced racing hiatus into a positive, according to driver Chris Pither.

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A number of factors came together late in the piece for the revamped squad formerly known as Tekno Autosports, with Pither himself only announced at the team on the morning of the BP Ultimate SuperTest.

Staff had to gel quickly at the season-opening Superloop Adelaide 500, with then lead driver James Courtney involved in a number of collisions with the ferocious Turn 8 wall.

Courtney left soon after, with Alex Davison brought into the #19 seat on the eve of Albert Park, where both cars showed flashes of pace before the event was called off.

Given the hectic start to life as Team Sydney, Pither believes the squad can return stronger for the coming 11 rounds, starting with Sydney Motorsport Park on June 27-28.

“I think so for sure,” Pither told Supercars.com.

“We all know it was quite late coming together prior to Adelaide and I feel like we actually made a big step forward just between Adelaide and AGP [Australian Grand Prix].

“That was purely just from the aspect of having that time to prepare better and learn a bit and go to the AGP better prepared.

“So I think that’s a good positive to take out of this, it gives us time to work out a bit more of a plan and get more settled in.

“In reality we should be much more organised and prepared going to the next event.”

Pither, the 2018 Dunlop Super2 Series champion, drives the #22 Coca-Cola Commodore.

The 33-year-old said his similar type of career to one-time Carrera Cup Australia champ Davison, 40, could help each other push the team along.

Both have taken ARMOR ALL Pole Positions at Supercars level but have endured stop-start careers.

Pither made his solo Supercars debut in 2006 but has only had one prior full season in ’16; Davison drove parts of the 2004 and ’05 seasons before full campaigns in 2009-11 and ’13.

“Alex is highly experienced and I’ve been around for a long time as well, but I would say Alex is potentially in the same position as I am,” Pither said.

“We haven’t had big, long stints in the main game.

“We’ve been in and out of it a bit and that’s the hard part I guess, it’s such a competitive category that you need that long-term consistency and ideally in the same team with the same people around you to just find those little one percenters.

“I think we can work together well and push each other along because we are in probably a similar situation in that respect and feed off each other and move forward together.”

Both drivers are looking forward to a return to the physical race track after tough runs through the first seven rounds of the BP Supercars All Stars Eseries.