{"id":835409,"date":"2026-07-31T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835409\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:23:13","slug":"supercars-news-roland-dane-rubbishes-report-of-nick-percat-premiair-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835409\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Roland Dane rubbishes report of Nick Percat PremiAir offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-Supercars-Testing-1-SMP-Z81_2397.jpg\" class=\"sc-hero-img\" alt=\"Dane rubbishes report of Percat PremiAir offer\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNick Percat. Image: Richard Gresham <\/p>\n<p>Fox Sport\u2019s MotorRacing 360 program this week aired \u201ca big exclusive\u201d that Percat had been approached to take Declan Fraser\u2019s seat, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The program declared Percat knocked back \u201ca loose offer\u201d in order to fulfil his contract with Red Bull Ampol Racing for the Enduro Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has swirled over Fraser\u2019s future at PremiAir amid a tough return to the championship for the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>PremiAir team principal Dane told Speedcafe in Perth that he was \u201cabsolutely amazed\u201d to hear a claim that Percat had been offered the seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a shred of truth. Not even a gnat of truth to it,\u201d said Dane, who owns the building in which Percat\u2019s JND Racing driver development team is based.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had one contact with Nick in the last few months and that was to tell him the alarm had gone off on his building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just shows you people will invent things just for the sake of it. I think the bloke in America calls it fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dane had lamented after the Townsville 500 that the Fraser-driven #777 entry is <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2026-townsville-500-premiair-racing-declan-fraser-roland-dane-contract-comments-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cin the wrong postcode\u201d following a trio of 21st place finishes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team undertook a rookie test with Fraser at Queensland Raceway on the Wednesday after Townsville, where co-driver Nash Morris also turned laps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a good test,\u201d said Dane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeclan\u2019s got a deal to the end of the year and you never say never, but certainly we\u2019re not about to make a change at the moment, I can promise you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Percat signed with Red Bull Ampol Racing to partner Broc Feeney in this year\u2019s enduros following the end of his full-time Supercars career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Percat. Image: Richard Gresham Fox Sport\u2019s MotorRacing 360 program this week aired \u201ca big exclusive\u201d that Percat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,123765,27559,132492,9910,85],"class_list":["post-835409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nick-percat","tag-premiair-racing","tag-roland-dane","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835409","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=835409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}