{"id":495983,"date":"2026-02-22T03:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495983\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:35:15","slug":"premiair-racing-penalised-for-jayden-ojeda-sydney-500-pitstop-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495983\/","title":{"rendered":"PremiAir Racing penalised for Jayden Ojeda Sydney 500 pitstop mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PREMIAIR Racing has been punished for a clumsy tyre change during the Safety Car-induced pitstop frenzy last night at the Dunlop Sydney 500.<\/p>\n

Jayden Ojeda<\/a> was running 13th when he entered the lane but by the time he exited he was off the lead lap, following a mishap in which the #31 Camaro was released without one of its wheels attached.<\/p>\n

That wheel quickly detached and rolled into the side of Zach Bates<\/a>\u2019 Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet.<\/p>\n

PremiAir was stung with the standard penalty of a 30-point teams\u2019 championship deduction and $1500 fine for failure to maintain control of all equipment\/parts in a pitstop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vision showed that the car controller dropped Car 31 during its Pit Stop before the rear right wheel was secured to the hub as a result of which the wheel left the Car and rolled towards the fast line colliding with the side of another Car,\u201d observed the stewards report.<\/p>\n

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

Walkinshaw TWG Racing had also been docked 30 teams\u2019 championship points<\/a> earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Declan Fraser<\/a> brought home 13th for PremiAir, while Ojeda could salvage no more than 22nd.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we had a small error during the pit top and rolled out with three wheels, which obviously isn\u2019t ideal,\u201d said Ojeda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all happened pretty quickly and from there we were on the back foot.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur only real option was to hang out and hope for a Safety Car once the field had cycled through their stops, to try and get back onto the lead lap, but it just never came.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tale of HRT\u2019s Cursed Holden Commodore<\/p>\n

Was this Holden Racing Team VF Commodore cursed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREMIAIR Racing has been punished for a clumsy tyre change during the Safety Car-induced pitstop frenzy last night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-495983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495983","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=495983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}