{"id":283608,"date":"2025-11-14T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:01:10","slug":"danes-honest-confession-quinn-quip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283608\/","title":{"rendered":"Dane\u2019s honest confession, Quinn quip"},"content":{"rendered":"

EVER the fierce competitor, Roland Dane has shown some rare vulnerability in explaining the motive for his return to Supercars team principal duties next year.<\/p>\n

Next year, the Triple Eight founder will be at the helm of PremiAir Racing.<\/p>\n

Having stepped down from day-to-day duties at Triple Eight come the end of 2021, when he handed the baton to Jamie Whincup<\/a>, Dane says keeping his brain from rotting is at the core of his comeback.<\/p>\n

MORE: Xiberras hopes rivals fear Dane\u2019s Supercars return<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c(PremiAir owner) Peter Xiberras kept asking me first of all,\u201d he explained in a broadcast interview with Mark Larkham.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecondly, there\u2019s only so many NASCAR races you can go to as a spectator without an active involvement, even if it\u2019s your son-in-law<\/a> (Shane van Gisbergen) racing. I like it, but I miss the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve stepped down from the board of PWR that I have been on for years, I\u2019ve stepped away from that now, and I need to occupy my days usefully and stop my brain rotting, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Dane also took the opportunity to fire back at Triple Eight co-owner Tony Quinn\u2019s claim that the relationship between he and Xiberras won\u2019t last long<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuinny reckons we\u2019re going to fall out by March \u2013 so we\u2019re going to make it to April come what may!\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n

Dane had an adventurous way of describing the job at hand to propel PremiAir up the pecking order.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regard race teams as a big jigsaw puzzle,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have got to try to put all the bits together, the component parts of it, which includes a lot of the right people, having a good group of people which fundamentally is here.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a good group of people here; they need the right direction and so it\u2019s my job to help with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when you have got the jigsaw together, you have got to then go and play chess. Both in front of the garage and behind the garage, it\u2019s a big game of chess.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you\u2019re really, really good at it, you then play monopoly which is what Triple Eight do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVER the fierce competitor, Roland Dane has shown some rare vulnerability in explaining the motive for his return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-283608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}