{"id":497884,"date":"2026-02-23T01:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497884\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:49:20","slug":"roland-dane-on-premiair-racings-sydney-supercars-rain-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497884\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Dane on PremiAir Racing’s Sydney Supercars rain gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"

PREMIAIR Racing\u2019s brave call to roll the dice on wet tyres in the Sunday leg of the Sydney 500 didn\u2019t pay off, but there was only one element that team principal Roland Dane regretted witnessing.<\/p>\n

Jayden Ojeda<\/a> and Declan Fraser<\/a> were running 12th and 19th when PremiAir called both cars in for a Lap 31 pitstop under Safety Car conditions to trade slicks for wets.<\/p>\n

Erebus Motorsport followed suit the next lap with Cooper Murray<\/a>, but no one else blinked despite the threatening skies.<\/p>\n

A major opportunity beckoned had the rain intensified, but ultimately within a matter of green flag laps all three had to give the game away, leaving them to be last of the lead-lap runners at the chequered flag.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI suppose the only thing I\u2019m unhappy with is that we did it with both cars,\u201d Dane told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have liked to have done one and one, frankly (i.e. split strategies).<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the rain had stayed on the trajectory then we probably all would have been on wets but it didn\u2019t, so that\u2019s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both drivers were philosophical about how things panned out.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Ross GIbb<\/p>\n

\u201cWe bet it all on black and didn\u2019t win big, but that\u2019s racing,\u201d said Fraser.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes you roll the dice and it doesn\u2019t fall your way. That\u2019s just the gamble we took as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ojeda added: \u201cWe took a gamble on the wet tyre and it almost worked for us, but in the end we had to switch back to slicks, which took us out of contention.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s racing sometimes you\u2019ve got to take the risk and back yourself. Today it didn\u2019t pay off, but other days it will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREMIAIR Racing\u2019s brave call to roll the dice on wet tyres in the Sunday leg of the Sydney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-497884","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\/497884","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=497884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}