This is the first exclusive pre-event Supercars.com column by championship-winning Race Engineer Scott Sinclair. Sinclair will preview and debrief each round of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship from his own perspective, commencing with this weekend’s Thrifty Sydney 500 - Opening Round.

If race tracks could talk, Bathurst would boast, "I'm the greatest," while Albert Park would whisper, "I'm the prettiest."

Sydney Motorsport Park, which hosts the first round of 2025, would simply rumble, "I’m hungry."

Hungry for what? Hungry for that sweet, tasting Dunlop tyre rubber that the western Sydney track loves to devour.