PremiAir 2025 season review: Shock Bathurst podium amid more change
As 2025 winds down, Supercars.com is looking over all 11 teams and their performances in this year's Repco Supercars Championship, continuing with PremiAir Racing.
After a stunning 2024 season in which James Golding finished an outstanding seventh in points, there was plenty of anticipation surrounding what PremiAir Racing could muster in 2025, especially with the addition of Richie Stanaway.
However, it was a major slump year-on-year, with Golding tumbling back into the midfield, and Stanaway not even seeing out the season after it was announced PremiAir would have a double driver change in 2026.
Such was the Kiwi's struggles that he was dumped after what was a ragged final race on the Gold Coast, with 2026 recruit Jayden Ojeda getting a five race headstart as his replacement.
Securing a Top Ten Shootout berth on Sunday in Adelaide was a sign that the potential was there, as was Golding departing the team with a fastest lap against his name in the final race of the season.
By that point, Golding had taken matters into his own hands and signed a deal with the Blanchard Racing Team, before turning in what many would claim as his greatest drive in Supercars.
When the rains arrived, Golding and co-driver David Russell were simply brilliant. If Golding had been just a few centimetres further up the inside of Cooper Murray at Griffin's Bend, PremiAir Racing would be Bathurst winners.
Just how that would've changed the perception of their 2025 season, we will never know...
PremiAir Racing: 2025 season results and head-to-heads
Drivers' finish: James Golding 14th, Richie Stanaway 24th, Jayden Ojeda 25th
Team's finish: 10th
Best result: 3rd (James Golding/David Russell, Bathurst)
Qualifying head-to-head: James Golding 16-13 Richie Stanaway, James Golding 3-2 Jayden Ojeda
Race head-to-head: James Golding 17-6 Richie Stanaway, James Golding 4-1 Jayden Ojeda
What's next in 2026?
There is plenty of change for PremiAir heading into 2026, and they are all changes that come with clear intent.
Ojeda and 2022 Super2 champion Declan Fraser become the two drivers of the PremiAir Chevrolet Camaro, with the popular Queenslander eager to make the most of a second opportunity.
With a heavy investment in two young drivers, perhaps they could be forgiven for not fighting towards the front from the outset, however there's another signing off-track who won't settle for midpack.
Whilst Ludo Lacroix departs after a stint that he admitted wasn't up to his own standards, PremiAir will have a new Team Principal as Roland Dane makes a shock return to the sport, taking on the Triple Eight empire he created.
Peter Xiberras continues to invest heavily in his team, and desperately wants results. Now, they need to be delivered.
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