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Supercars teams and drivers are now fully focused on the three upcoming endurance events on the calendar with Sandown now just over a week away.
They very easily turn your championship on its head just because there is 300 points on offer in one race. In the sprint rounds if
you have a bad day you can still recover the following day and that is what the guys at the front of the field do pretty well - they can manage a bad day pretty well. It can all come down to one mistake or one piece of bad luck in the endurance rounds though.
The Red Bull Racing guys have started to take a bit of a stranglehold on the series over the last three or four race meetings but the endurance stuff can really set them back if it doesn't go to plan.
It looks like it is going to take some bad luck to get other teams and drivers back into this fight.
The other big factor at these rounds is the involvement of co-drivers. The main game drivers have to share their cars with someone who isn't involved in a fulltime capacity.
I think the top contenders are looking pretty good. There are a couple of interesting ones though. Mark Winterbottom has got Dean Canto this year, who is very experienced and usually does a very good job, but there is a big height difference between he and Frosty. I'm sure they won't see it as an issue but it can be. They'll iron out a few of those things at test days this week probably.
