PremiAir Racing heads into the final day of the 2025 Supercars season with a belly full of fire after a frustrating Saturday at the Adelaide Grand Final.
In his post-race interview (see below quoteboard), Competition Director Ludo Lacroix in particular lamented the ‘easy top ten’ capability of the #31 PremiAir Racing Camaro and driver Jimmy Golding going wanting.
While the potential may have been there when it came to Golding’s race pace, it was heavily compromised first by a disappointing result in a kerb strike heavy qualifying (P24) and then a five second penalty in the race for a false start.
While a smart strategy call and perfect execution in the pits saw the #31 recover significantly to cross the line P14, it was not enough to make Lacroix smile, with the Supercars veteran highlighting a desire for a day where things came together without mistakes and require no statements of, ‘we could have.’
In the #62 PremiAir Racing Camaro, Jayden ‘Juice’ Ojeda meanwhile continued his preparations for 2026.
While struggling to get a feel for his car early in both qualifying and the race, as described by Lacroix, Ojeda put in a solid effort to make it through to part two of qualifying, before being unable to progress any further with kerb strikes on both flying laps.
In the race, he started from P18, pitted early, and went to work banking laps and keeping his nose clean while continuing to try and lock down his connection with the #62 during what was often a hectic race.
The Adelaide Grand Final action will conclude Sunday with qualifying for race 34 at 10.00am, the Top Ten Shootout at 12.35pm, and Race 34 at 3.15pm. For full event and scheduling information, visit www.supercars.com
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QUOTEBOARD: ADELAIDE GRAND FINAL, SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2025
Ludo Lacroix – Competition Director, PremiAir Racing
“I was very disappointed with qualifying kerb strike, kerb strike, kerb strike, kerb strike…
Jimmy couldn’t get into the top 18, and he obviously has a much better car than that. I’m not saying that because it’s what I believe; I’m saying it because that’s what it is. When you see the car racing, it’s easily a top-ten car. We know what we’ve put in the car, and it’s very close to what our friends have and they’re top five. So that was disappointing.
Jayden did a good job to get into the 18, but then he couldn’t improve. We’ve seen that earlier last race and now this race where we need to find that connection between him and the car to extract that last bit of lap time. It was similar in the race: he moved backwards early because he can’t quite feel enough of the car in those first laps, but then he settles, has the pace of the car, and races well. He just loses a little too much in the opening stint.
We didn’t want to be in the danger zone, so we split the strategy pitting one car early and one car late. Juice was in front, so he was the right one to pit early.
With Jimmy, unfortunately, we had a false start. We must have moved before the green flag and after the red light, and that cost us five seconds. We were racing around P14, P15 we didn’t gain anything off the start anyway, but still…
We were racing well, then had to pay the five-second penalty, which dropped us back with people you don’t want to be around. So we put more fuel in, trying to find him some space to race on his own but putting more fuel in early is not clever, because you have to carry it, and without a safety car to give that time back, we cost ourselves in lap time.
We ended up P14 which is good from P24, but I think the car is easily capable of top ten. He was racing for ten-odd laps with P1 pace as fast as the leader. But he’s not the leader here in my opinion; he’s P5/P6/P7 if he qualifies in the top ten. That’s what it could have been.
We keep saying, ‘we could have, we could have,’ but we make a mistake… The pit stops were very good no mistakes, everything smooth. But if it’s not an accident with someone and a ten- or fifteen-second penalty, then it’s a five-second penalty for a start. There’s always something stopping us from doing a perfect weekend — qualify well, race well, no penalties. And if you can’t do that, you’re never going to be top ten or top five.”
Jimmy Golding – #31 PremiAir Racing Camaro
“My mistake in qualifying, I got a kerb strike and didn’t get through to the top 18 so ended up starting 24th. Really just focused on the race then, tried to give us a good race car to make up position and a good strategy as well. I got off to a bit of an eager start; I accidently went before the lights went out. I didn’t set my brake pressure right and I was resetting it and looked up and thought the lights were out and they weren’t, so I went too early. I didn’t get an advantage but obviously if you go to early you get a penalty, so we had to serve that at the first pit stop. We made up a bit of ground before that, served the stop, got a heap of fuel in and then sort of settled in and had a really good middle stint, really good pace, saved a bit of fuel and a bit of everything really, made up for the timing loss there and ended up coming home P14. I nearly got Anton at the end there where he had the damage, but not quite. All in all, the car was really fast and feeling confident heading into tomorrow.”
Jayden Ojeda – #62 PremiAir Racing Camaro
“Overall, a positive day, I had a good run in qualifying to make it to part two and then just got greedy with the kerb strikes in the second part and sort of didn’t really get a proper crack at it, lost two of my three laps. Then starting from 18th in the race the initial start wasn’t too bad but then got bullied a little bit, probably the easiest way to put it, in the first few laps, which made life tough. We went for the short first stint to try to get some clean air and you know, we had to try something for where we are, but ultimately it just didn’t quite work and obviously still a little bit in my own personal development in coming to grips with these cars, especially in the longer stints.”
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