{"id":400184,"date":"2026-04-27T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:59:15","slug":"roland-dane-opens-up-on-premiair-racing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400184\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Dane opens up on PremiAir Racing project"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR someone who spent the best part of two decades running the most successful team in Supercars history, it remains a tad strange to see Roland Dane operating towards the bottom end of pitlane.<\/p>\n

Dane returned to the paddock in a full-time capacity this January to take the reins as team principal at PremiAir Racing.<\/p>\n

What has followed has been diligent notetaking from Dane at every opportunity, an occasional fire-up (e.g. making a point to Supercars chief motorsport officer Tim Edwards at Albert Park), and a sense of growing confidence within the PremiAir camp.<\/p>\n

Even if the results on paper aren\u2019t anything to crowd about just yet.<\/p>\n

So, how is Dane finding this new challenge?<\/p>\n

\u201cI promise you one thing: I would not be here if I wasn\u2019t overall enjoying it. I can promise you that,\u201d he asserted to V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am definitely enjoying working with a very good, young, vibrant team of guys.<\/p>\n

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\u201cApart from me and (team manager) Pete Vale, everyone else is in the first half (of life), not the second half.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think that is invigorating for me and I\u2019m enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now for perhaps the biggest slice of praise\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to say, from a team perspective of people working together, having each other\u2019s backs, looking after each other, it\u2019s as good as I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a group, with or without me, they\u2019ll get there sooner or later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an awful lot of positive things here.\u201d<\/p>\n

PremiAir\u2019s 2026 drivers Jayden Ojeda<\/a> and Declan Fraser<\/a> are aged 26 and 25 respectively, and are paired with young gun engineers Andrew Gilliam and Simon Hodge.<\/p>\n

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