While the day started out dry at the Adelaide Grand Final, by the end, treacherous conditions ultimately saw Race 32 of the 2025 Supercars Championship come to a premature end due to damage to turn eight.
For PremiAir Racing, the day got off to a sensible start with what was Practice Two for the weekend, seeing the #31 (Jimmy Golding) and #62 (Jayden Ojeda) PremiAir Racing Camaros putting in solid laps around the Adelaide streets to log the 12th and 19th quickest times respectively.
In qualifying with rain threatening, for a moment it looked like the #31 would make it into part two (for the top ten), however, late traffic as the final seconds of part one counted down saw Golding relegated to 15th. Ojeda meanwhile logged the 22nd quickest time in the #62 as he continued to come to grips with what is his first time at Adelaide in a Supercar.
This saw the team move their full attentions to prepping their race cars for what was expected to be a wet afternoon, with this prediction certainly coming to fruition in the hours leading up to the race start as the heavens opened and drenched the circuit – seeing on-track racing abandoned due to standing water and the Supercars race start pushed back from 4.20pm to 4.40pm.
When things eventually got underway, it wasn’t as torrential as it had been, but rain was certainly still falling and the action was wet and wild as the field got into the action.
Both Golding and Ojeda made it through a tumultuous lap one, before Golding made contact with Cameron Hill on turn 13 before pulling off an epic save to keep it off the wall and rejoin without having any further contact, dropping just one spot in the process.
The #31 dove into the pits on lap 5, taking on two rear tyres and coming back out into ‘clean air’ on-track, putting his head down amid the tricky conditions. On lap 19, Ojeda brought the #62 to in for the same, with another slick and tidy spot by the crew.
Just one lap later, with Golding in P15 and Ojeda in P16, the safety car was called as Thomas Randle made heavy contact with the Turn 8 wall – while Randle was okay, his #55 pushed the Turn 8 barriers backwards, seeing them needing repairs before racing could resume. The race was first red flagged, before the time certain aspect of the race came into play, leaving officials to decide that the race would be declared.
When the race was eventually declared with no restart due to time-certain conditions, Golding finished 15th and Ojeda 16th.
The Adelaide Grand Final action will continue tomorrow with Qualifying at 10.05am followed by the Top Ten Shootout (12.35pm) and Race 33 at 3.20pm. Sunday will then run the same format, with qualifying for race 34 at 10.00am, the Top Ten Shootout at 12.35pm, and Race 34 kicking off at 3.15pm. For full event and scheduling information, visit www.supercars.com
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QUOTEBOARD: ADELAIDE GRAND FINAL, FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2025
Ludo Lacroix – Competition Director, PremiAir Racing
“Practice two this morning was okay-ish but not special, and qualifying didn’t reflect much more. We were okay, we had a bit of an issue with Jimmy but, just (in the) top ten then maybe, but then it was top 14 because of a bit of traffic at the end. Juice is learning the track, he is learning the car here, so you know…it was not far in terms of lap time but far in terms of position. For the race we knew it was going to be wet so we went out on wets, probably didn’t get the best of the pressures to start the race, but then yes the car went better in the middle and then it was red flagged so that was the end of it really. That’s the day for today. Juice recovered a fair few spots – he started P22 and finished P16 – and Jimmy started P15 and finished P15.”
Jimmy Golding – #31 PremiAir Racing Camaro
“Yeah, that was a pretty eventful race. I settled in off the start, got a pretty good launch but couldn’t really go anywhere. I went for a gap that closed up pretty quickly, so I backed out of that and pretty much held position.
Then, heading into the second-last corner, I had contact with Cam Hill, which spun me around. I figured the only way I was going to get out of it and keep it on the track was to gas it up, so I fed it some throttle, got it back straight, and only lost the one position. That was very lucky, because I was spinning towards the infield.
The car was okay – probably a little bit stronger as the track dried. In the full wet, it was a bit sketchy, so I was just making sure we had a car underneath us for tomorrow.”
Jayden Ojeda – #62 PremiAir Racing Camaro
“Tricky day for sure. Practice, qualifying, and then went into the race completely wet. But overall, pretty pleased with where we finished up.
The start was terrible on my end. I stalled, went to last, and just chipped away from there. We went long in the first stint, and the pace was really good in the second half, which clawed us back into the fight. Ultimately, we pitted one lap too early; hindsight is a beautiful thing. If we’d stayed out that extra lap, we probably would’ve picked up a bit of the safety car free-kick.
The pace felt really good once I settled into a rhythm and had a clear track when a few cars around me pitted. I could just chip away lap after lap and start getting more comfortable with the car in the wet.
I’ve had a few wet outings now, but here is super high-risk with the walls, as we saw, it’s very easy for anyone to end up in the fence at Turn 8. So it was all about chipping away and adding as much as I can to the memory bank ahead of next year.
But overall, it was a good recovery considering we were 25th after lap one. Happy with that, and ready to go again with quali and a big race tomorrow.”
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