A torrential downpour at last year’s instalment resulted in a 12-car pileup which left a $5 million damage bill and forced organisers to abandon Saturday’s race.

But it’s not the challenge of dealing with a slippery track that has Reynolds hoping for sun come April’s first full weekend  –  it’s  the  makeup of his Holden ZB Commodore.

“Lately our cars haven’t been as fast in the wet as they have been last year, so we’re trying to work out why, but in the dry we’re good to win races,” the Erebus Motorsport driver said. 

“But every time it rains it gives us an opportunity to find out why we’re not so fast.

“That’s the best thing about our sport, everything’s tuneable, you can always make it better or worse.”

Reynolds will enter the Supercars’ Tasmanian leg at the top of his game, having collected his first solo victory for Erebus in the final race at Albert Park on Sunday.

The 32-year-old beat pole sitter Jamie Whincup to the first corner and held on for the rest of the race, crossing the line a second clear of Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport’s Nick Percat with Whincup the best part of two seconds behind in third.

Reynolds tipped the seven-time Supercars champion to bounce back at Symmons Plains, and in the same breath praised the form of his teammate and Supercars’ leading rookie Anton de Pasquale, who has impressed in his first two outings.

“Whincup’s a good mate of mine and he’s won more races than anyone else in our series so if you’re beating him you know you’ve done your job well, but he’ll come back pretty hard.

“I’m super pleased with all our efforts and even Anton did a fantastic job for us this weekend.

“It’s just been going from strength to strength, every time we rock up to another circuit we’re better than the track before so as a team we’re growing.”

Reynolds is now in his third season for Erebus having departed Rod Nash Racing following the 2015 season.

The Albury driver said while being in one of the championship’s smaller teams came with its challenges, the positives far outweighed the negatives. 

“We’re only a small team - we’re only 22 people and we’re trying to take on some of the biggest teams which are 50, 60 or 70 people deep.

“I prefer it - you get to know everyone better, I like to see everyone’s personality and it becomes more of a family environment.

“And I’ve been on both sides - I’ve been on bigger teams and smaller teams and I much prefer the smaller teams.”

Meanwhile, de Pasquale has detailed the influence of Reynolds ahead of his third visit to Tasmania’s Northern Midlands.

The South Werribee 22-year-old endured mixed fortunes at Albert Park over the weekend, but is confident his Erebus teammate has him heading in the right direction.

“The resources are there to learn,” De Pasquale said.

“I’m learning heaps off Dave, he’s one of the best in the category at the moment and I’m just using all that experience and information to make myself better and the team as a whole is going ahead in leaps and bounds and the results are showing that.

“Dave won the race on Sunday so we can go back and have a look at how and why and see the difference between myself and him and learn from that.

“It obviously works, so if I do the same I’ll probably come second or we would have been right at the front together, so you can take positives out of what I can do better.”

The Supercars’ Tasmanian leg will take place at Symmons Plains Raceway from April 6 to 8.