The powder room suggests that it might be a good thing that the entry list for this category only goes up a few days (minutes?) before the opening of proceedings at the mountain.
The whispers from places around SEQ way suggest that a young driver with Level 1 sponsor branding and support may not be continuing with the same outfit he has been running with to date.
The story also goes that the driver's former car preparer from last year is also no longer with this outfit.. perhaps to link up with the youngster again to run with a different chassis.....
Presuming any of this actually happened