The everyday adjustment restoring Cameron's belief

It's the advice that any budding learner driver hears when they get their first driving lessons: "Always be aware of your surroundings, check your mirrors."

As it turns out, even the very best drivers in the country need to be reminded of that every now and then. For Aaron Cameron, it's a lesson that is now bearing fruit.

A recurring theme of the opening half of the season has been the major disparity between the second-year Blanchard Racing Team driver's brilliant qualifying speed and lacklustre race results.

Such has been the mistakes that Cameron has made in races, that his race craft has come into question, with former teammate James Courtney even going so far as to suggest that Cameron needed to take his racing more seriously.

Whilst Cameron had his right of reply, he has also revealed that he has taken steps to get himself back up the front of the field, revealing that something drivers around the world do every day has renewed his confidence.

"Look, there's been some talk about my racing, it's probably not as good as it should be, but I think it's getting better for sure," Cameron admitted on Supercars' Drivers Only podcast.

"Certainly I feel a lot better in the car. I've changed some mirror positions so I can actually see more of what's going on, where people are going.

"I didn't quite realise how critical that can be, seeing where people are."

There have been green shoots for Cameron following his breakthrough runner-up finish at the opening race of the season in Sydney, snaring a top 10 finish in the Tasmania finale with a strong run to seventh.

Egged on by host Cam Waters, Cameron noted that a change to his in-car rear vision mirror has proven to be a positive change for his race craft.

"I didn't have no mirrors, but you know the centre mirror? I've actually changed now, the way it's shaped I can see more out the left side window area," Cameron said.

"We just have it set down to the ground so you can't see it. There's always eyes forward, usually because there's so many cars in front.

"But this year I've been qualifying well where there's not so many cars in front, but we've had bad race pace usually."

Save for a top 10 start and finish for Cameron in the Tasmanian finale, BRT's newfound pace has largely gone missing in recent rounds, Tasmania and Darwin proving particularly tough rounds.

Given the strength that technical partner Triple Eight have shown at those two venues throughout their history, it came as a surprise to Cameron, especially given the struggles weren't just limited to the BRT Fords in the Top End.

"I think as a package we've been getting better. Darwin was certainly a struggle overall," Cameron said.

"I don't think we changed the philosophy that much, I'm just a driver but I didn't feel like we did super crazy stuff.

"Obviously we've got the alliance with Triple Eight, so I was expecting a pretty good weekend considering how good they usually are in Darwin.

"And I really had that Saturday Super Soft race circled as one where we should be awesome, but obviously both BRT and Triple Eight were pretty slow I'd say."

Cameron sits 20th heading to the NTI Townsville 500 on July 10-12.