Reynolds brands 2025 season 'probably the worst I’ve had'

A candid David Reynolds has labelled his 2025 campaign as "probably been the worst year I’ve had" in Supercars.

The Team 18 driver sits 19th in the championship through six rounds, having claimed three top 10 finishes in 18 completed races.

Reynolds is on the fringe of reaching the Finals, with the 2017 Bathurst winner 227 points from the cut-line with four rounds and 1230 points to win across the next four rounds before the championship field is cut to 10.

Speaking on Supercars' Drivers Only podcast, Reynolds made no secret of his tough campaign, which he suggested was a product of a car that has been "very difficult to drive".

Team 18 owner Charlie Schwerkolt said the team has an option Reynolds for 2026, with the team preparing to take over General Motors homologation duties from Ford-bound Triple Eight.

Teammate Anton De Pasquale later leapt to Reynolds' defence, saying he is "one of the fastest drivers out there."

“It’s probably been the worst year I’ve had,” said Reynolds, who turned 40 on Thursday.

“It’s been shocking. The car’s been very difficult to drive, I’ve had no results. When you look at the time sheet and you’re at the bottom, and you’re not at the top, that’s how difficult it is.

“We’re always chasing understeer and oversteer and whatnot, but at the end of the day, when you think about the fast cars you’ve had…

“You’ve always got understeer and oversteer, you’re just going faster. You just need to make more grip. It’s down to the engineers to get the tyre working.”

Reynolds has been engineered by fellow veteran Richard Hollway since he joined Team 18 at the start of the 2024 season. The Reynolds/Hollway combination has had its moments, with the duo notably digging itself out of a hole in Perth.

After qualifying 12th and 16th on the Saturday, the former result some 0.6s from pole, Reynolds rebounded on Sunday to qualify provisional second.

With 475 races under his belt, Reynolds knows more than most how the tides can turn. The eight-time race winner has long maintained how crucial car performance is, saying after Tasmania that he had been "questioning everything."

“Prime example was Perth, I qualified nowhere on Saturday, I was six tenths off the pace,” Reynolds said.

“On Saturday night I’m going, ‘Far out, how am I going to go six tenths faster?’ It’s only six corners, which is a tenth a corner. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a lifetime in our sport.

“The engineers came up with some beautiful ideas and we moved the set-up around, some wizardry, and next day I came out and I was six tenths faster and on the pace.

“I was on the same time as Broc Feeney, who was a few hundredths in front of me. I had a similar balance, but I was just going faster."

The 2025 Supercars season resumes in Townsville on July 11-13. Tickets are on sale now. International viewers can watch the action on SuperView.