Matt Hall believes his team can do better than third place at this weekend's Red Bull Air Race in Gdynia, Poland.
His team scored third in the last round at Putrajaya, but Hall believes clean flying will get them onto a higher step on the podium.
"My goal is to fly in the Final 4 and I think we've got the ability to do that," he said. "Apart from in Croatia, where I made a mistake, we were heading for that and I think we can improve on our third place podium to tell the truth.
"Every race is an individual race and any team could win the race – it's going to come down to who flies clean on the day and that's what I'm going to do."
The track in Gdynia is tricky with expected high winds to make life hard for the competitors, and the pylons are expected to wear the brunt of it.
"It's going to be an interesting track with a couple of challenges and there's some new rules about pylon hits," Hall told Red Bull media. "There's also no climbing allowed in the gates so there will be some changes to how people fly the vertical turning manoeuvre compared to the last couple of races. People won't be going so low and pulling up but starting going oblique again.
"On the northern side of the track it's a pretty tight section and with the wind forecast it's going to really compress that – my prediction is that we're going to see the Start/Finish gate go down a few times.
"It's a funny track, but what a race pilot will consider is that it's reasonably easy for the first two thirds of it, it's a reasonably straight track but the last turn is very challenging. Twice we'll go through this so we'll see once we're out in the track and I'm not yet sure how it's going to look in real time."
Austrian Hannes Arch is favourite to win at Gdynia and stretch his championship lead, but Race Director and former competitor Steve Jones believes he'll have some stiff competition.
"Hannes Arch is always fast, but Matt Hall, Pete McLeod and Nigel Lamb are always close to the podium," Jones said. "There was no mistaking the return of Hall's self-assuredness after a change in tactics in Malaysia saw him soar into third place, whilst Arch went head to head against Britain's Nigel Lamb in an epic Final 4. Having found his stride mid-season, Lamb is surely ready to repeat his Putrajaya success in Poland."
The race is on Sunday at 1520 local time (2320 AEST) and can be seen live on www.redbullairrace.com