Jamie Whincup races a plane on a beach as he prepares for the Gold Coast 600 V8 Supercars driver Jamie Whincup takes on Red Bull stunt pilot Joel Haski on Gold Coast's Main Beach. JAMIE Whincup says racing a stunt plane on sand isn't so much a gimmick as practice. "The Gold Coast 600 - complete craziness,"" the Red Bull Racing star says. We're talking manholes, white lines, blind corners, close walls, even tram lines. When you compare what's happening next weekend to what you saw at the Bathurst 1000 . . . it really is like two different sports."" Speaking with The Daily Telegraph during a promotion with Red Bull Racing yesterday - which saw him race an aeroplane along a strip of Gold Coast beachfront - Whincup insisted the "craziness"" of the holiday strip track, which includes a famed triple chicane, will go a long way to determining the V8 Supercar Championship. While the Holden driver currently leads the 2013 series, fellow stars Craig Lowndes, Mark Winterbottom and Will Davison all arrive on the Coast next week within 181 points of him. "So what I've got at the moment, you can't even call it a lead,"" Whincup laughed. There's nothing between us top four guys which means it is really on up here. And this is one place where the slightest mistake can cruel you. For the Bathurst 1000, Mount Panorama is a smooth, flowing, high grip circuit. You've got a straight that goes for a kilometre, or roughly 20 seconds, which gives you a little bit of time to compose. But the Gold Coast is one of our shortest tracks and it's all manholes, white lines, walls either side; we're even going around the tram lines this year. "There's no margin for error."" As part of the Gold Coast 600 countdown, Whincup yesterday raced the Red Bull stunt plane on the famed holiday strip beachfront. "And it's definitely got the adrenalin pumping," he said. The championship race right now is as tight as it comes. Results are going to be incredibly important. "And all on a track that's completely crazy."" V8 Supercars driver Jamie Whincup on Gold Coast's Main Beach.