ROLAND Dane has shared a particularly measured view on Supercars parity in season 2026.
The ‘p-word’ has been spoken aplenty this month given Ford’s utter dominance of the opening four events – to the point where an official investigation was actually triggered after Round 3.
Chevrolet was subsequently granted minor tweaks to shift its aero balance rearward, but that did little to get much more of a golden presence at the pointy end of the timing screens besides Anton De Pasquale’s front-row start in the Sunday race at Ruapuna.
Dane, as team principal of PremiAir Racing which fields Camaros for Jayden Ojeda and Declan Fraser, was quizzed on the topic – and while he admitted surprise at off-season changes being made to the GM, had a bigger picture view.
Roland Dane. Pic: Ross Gibb
“If this has now corrected any anomaly that might have been there, then great,” he told V8 Sleuth.
“But I think the positive thing for me is seeing Anton second on the grid (on Sunday) and you’ve got the three manufacturers in the top three.
“I don’t quite agree with what Barry Ryan said the other day, when he said we haven’t got any A-graders.
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“I think we have got one, and we have got potential in some of the others in the Chevy side. But we have got one A-grader at the moment and we have got several guys with plenty of potential to be there, but they’re not there yet.
“So we have to look at the job we’re doing as teams before we look at some parity issue.”
PremiAir did show signs of progress in Christchurch, with Ojeda nabbing two top 10 starts and an eighth-place finish, while Fraser broke through for his first top 10 finish of the season in the Sunday race.
The quartet of GM squads are ranked sixth (Team 18), eighth (Matt Stone Racing), 10th (PremiAir) and 11th (Erebus Motorsport) in the teams’ championship.
Steering issues plagued Declan Fraser’s car for a chunk of the Christchurch Super440. Pic: Ross Gibb