BUT PLENTY OF HOMEWORK AHEAD
The 2025 Supercars Championship has come to a close today at the Adelaide Grand Final, with PremiAir Racing taking the time to farewell its departing members while looking ahead to what’s next.
As the race ended today, so too did the PremiAir Racing eras of #31 driver Jimmy Golding, Competition Director Ludo Lacroix, and original team member Andy Hackett, with Team Owner Peter Xiberras taking a moment to thank each of them for their contributions.
“Racing in Supercars is a whole-team effort, absolutely no one in this game succeeds alone, and I cannot thank Jimmy, Ludo, and Andy enough for their respective efforts across their tenures with us,” Xiberras said.
“Their skill and talent, dedication and commitment to PremiAir Racing and our relentless pursuit of improvement has always been greatly appreciated, and together we have ridden some great highs and of course, some soul crushing lows.
“As they sign off with us for the final time here at the Adelaide Grand Final, I ask that all of our PremiAir Racing supporters join me in thanking them for their service, and wishing them well in their future endeavours – although not too well, in the case of those who we will be competing against in 2026,” he said with a wry smile and a wink.
The final day of the season got off to a strong start for the Arundel-based team, with new recruit Jayden Ojeda, in only his second main game event as a ‘full time’ driver, making it through to his (and also engineer Andrew ‘Gilly’ Gilliam’s) very first Top Ten Shootout with the ninth quickest lap, before securing 10th for the #62 PremiAir Racing Camaro with a lap which earned him praise from the commentary team.
For a moment, it looked like both PremiAir Racing Camaros would be in the Shootout with Golding sitting well within the 10 late into Q2, however as the final moments unfolded the #31 PremiAir Racing Camaro would instead be classified in a starting position of 16th for the last race of the year.
When it came to Race 34 of the 2025 Supercars Championship, it wasn’t the outing the team was looking for from the beginning, with a hectic opening lap seeing Golding cop heavy rear damage when hit by Nick Percat as he and a number of his fellow racers took evasive action following contact ahead between Broc Feeney and Ryan Wood.
This damage saw Golding come to the lane three times in three laps for repairs, with the team putting in fantastic stops while taking advantage of the safety car – called for the stranded Jack Le Brocq, damaged in the same melee – to ensure the #31 would incredibly stay on the lead lap, albeit right at the back of the pack.
From there, Jimmy put his head down and did what he could, pitting on lap 30 for four tyres and 10 seconds of fuel, and then 57 for four tyres (marked by the team with ‘Thank You Jimmy’) and fuel to the end, running a steady race to claw back a finishing placing of P17.
Ojeda meanwhile was also impacted by the lap one goings on – while not directly incurring damage, he did end up with a front right flat spot while manoeuvring through the chaos.
He stayed out until the CPS window opened on lap 8 before pitting for four new tyres and seven seconds of fuel, rejoining and pressing on before a final stop on lap 53 for four tyres, 20 seconds of fuel and a rear perch adjustment, ultimately crossing the line P19 after doing all he could to keep out of trouble as the championship wound down across the 250km.
The 2026 Supercars Championship will commence with the 2026 Sydney 500 across February 20-22. For full calendar details, go to www.supercars.com
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QUOTEBOARD: ADELAIDE GRAND FINAL, SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2025
Ludo Lacroix – Competition Director, PremiAir Racing
“Qualifying was good, I was pretty pleased with that. In the race we had early accident damage on #31 and we had to pit three times before the first CPS, but we didn’t lose a lap which was good, we kept repairing and sending back, repairing and sending back. We were starting the race with a thirty second delay off the last repair, with the safety car on the way out. So, #31 was pretty heavily damaged and then impeded by 30 or 40 second delay to start the race (on the restart). Jayden was okay and travelling around 12/13 and then got caught and got a good flat spot really bad, so we had to pit him very early which put us on a strategy which was not ideal, and yeah, he is still learning what you can do with the car. So that was about it for Jayden – a long race trying to do two long stints with a first stint of 7 laps. On Jimmy, we reverted to a normal strategy, of pit around 30 and then around 55/57/58 and go home. And actually, the pace was very good, he was in the top three for the race, which was pretty good when you look at where we started. The pace was actually very good — he was running top-three pace in the race, which is pretty impressive considering where we started. After the crash we were dead last, 40–50 seconds behind, and we still finished only 10–12 seconds behind the leader.
So across the whole race we only lost around five to ten seconds to the leader, which is pretty good. Not enough to win, but still very strong.
Without all the damage, who knows — the pace was there, but unfortunately we have nothing to show for it. Again, we just can’t seem to get through without a mistake or an incident…”
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Jimmy Golding – #31 PremiAir Racing Camaro
“I just want to take a moment to look back on my time with PremiAir Racing. This team really helped give me my ticket back into the main game, and we’ve achieved a lot together over the last few years – our first top 10, first Shootout, first pole, first podium, and even a Bathurst podium. I’m proud of what we’ve built, proud of how far we’ve come, and grateful for the people who’ve been part of it. A big thank you as well to Peter and Carmen for their support and belief in me from day one. It’s been a big chapter, and one I’ll always look back on with a lot of appreciation.”
Jayden Ojeda – #62 PremiAir Racing Camaro
“The highlight was making the shootout. It was really cool to be in my first shootout; it was an awesome experience to get the Adelaide street circuit all to myself. The race was a little bit more disappointing, the start was okay but I just pinched the front at turn nine and got a really bad flat spot, so we had to pit early and it sort of threw us out of sequence and we just never really had the pace to sort of get us back in the race. All in all, it was a positive weekend with plenty learnt, just more preparation for 2026, some good data gathered and now we will go back and work on it in the offseason.”
Andy Hackett – original crew member, PremiAir Racing
“It has been a hell of a ride, from where we started working out of a small workshop in Darra, to where we are. The team has built really well and had a lot of highs, a lot of lows, and you know I have worked with a lot of people that have come and gone, and I miss a couple of them ones. The guys here they have a lot to work on moving forward, it has been a hell of a journey, and I can’t thank Peter and Carmen enough for having me.”
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