Holden hero Craig Lowndes will have the honour of being the first racer to driver the street circuit in Kuala Lumpur, with exhibition laps planned for Friday morning.
Lowndes' laps are the first scheduled on-track activity, ahead of two 20-minute practice sessions that will play out on Friday.
The man who sits second in the V8 Supercars Championship will steer a spare Red Bull Racing Australia Commodore, one of five V8 Supercars being freighted from Queensland to Malaysia for a showcase at the first ever KL City Grand Prix. All brands will be represented in the 'challenge'.
Lowndes was honoured to be the first to drive the circuit and appreciated the opportunity to be one of five drivers selected for the reconnaissance, ahead of a fully-blown Championship round at the venue in 2016.
"It's exciting," Lowndes told v8supercars.com.au.
"I know there's some allocated rides [as well], so I think even that will be exciting - to put passengers in the car to give them the full feeling and sense of what being in the car is like, what they really look like, feel like, sound like inside.
"But I'm excited to get an opportunity because to be the first V8 Supercar around a tight [circuit] - I believe it's quite tight in some sections - will be a good experience."
While he may get the first feel of the track in a race car, Lowndes didn't think he'd have any advantage, and named a couple of his five competitors he thinks will take to the track quickly.
"Because I'm the first out there [doesn't mean] that we'll have the fastest times and the fastest car around there. Chaz and those guys - definitely Will - will adapt to the circuit pretty quick," Lowndes said.
Lowndes will be joined by Prodrive Racing Australia's Chaz Mostert for Ford, Erebus Motorsport's Will Davison in a Mercedes-Benz AMG E63, Wilson Security GRM's Scott McLaughlin for Volvo, and Nissan Motorsport's Todd Kelly steering his brother Rick's Jack Daniel's Altima.
Four of the five drivers attending are Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 winners, though Lowndes is the only former V8 Supercars Champion.
While the four other brands are all technically linked in some way, Holden is the only manufacturer that runs across strictly competing teams. Lowndes was pleased to be the one selected to represent the manufacturer overseas.
"It is a great honour," he said.
"Holden have got many options - HRT, Brad Jones Racing, anyone who could've gone up there to represent Holden, and I'm lucky in the sense that it could've been Jamie [Whincup, teammate] - so I'm really lucky to have the opportunity.
"We'll get up there and have a bit of fun. I've heard stories of the track already and it's something that we're trying to get information and footage of before we get up there.
"But this year is all about putting on a good show. And I think that between the four others, we can do that. That's the exciting part, to showcase to another part of the world - that I've never been to - what V8 Supercars is all about."
Qualifying will be staged on Saturday with a 20-minute session before the first challenge that afternoon. Two more challenges will be staged on Sunday.
Stay tuned to v8supercars.com.au for footage and updates from the KL City Grand Prix - including vision of Lowndes' first laps on Friday.