PremiAir cars receive 'huge birthdays' after bruising 2025 season

PremiAir Racing has no immediate plans to debut new Supercars after the team undertook off-season works on both exisiting Camaros.

The 2026 Repco Supercars Championship will kick off with a number of brand new cars, with three teams changing brands.

Triple Eight Race Engineering is building three new Ford Mustangs, while Walkinshaw TWG Racing and Brad Jones Racing are preparing four new Toyota GR Supras. The likes of Grove Racing and Dick Johnson Racing are also set to debut new chassis in Sydney.

A number of teams, including Erebus Motorsport, are planning to bring new cars in midway through the season.

PremiAir is welcoming new drivers Jayden Ojeda and Declan Fraser, who will start 2026 in the cars that finished 2025. The chassis themselves had some hits throughout 2025, from Golding’s crash in Townsville, Richie Stanaway’s accident in Bathurst, and fires for both cars in Sydney.

The Gold Coast squad has used the break to put time into their cars, both of which debuted in 2023.

Ojeda will remain in the ex-Stanaway car he finished the season in, chassis 888A-064, while Fraser is set to race in the spare 888A-062 chassis.

When asked by Supercars.com if the team had new cars in the works, new Team Principal Roland Dane said: “No we don't, but we've done major refurbishment on the existing cars, they’ve had huge birthdays."

It comes after the end of PremiAir’s customer deal with Triple Eight, which built the team’s chassis as part of the arrangement.

PremiAir is set to utilise the new ‘Team Chevy’ technical alliance as General Motors aims to stay at the top of Supercars.

Only Team 18, Matt Stone Racing and PremiAir are likely to work off the alliance, with Erebus Motorsport keen to focus on its race team after dropping both its chassis supply deal and alliance with Super2 outfit Image Racing.

“It was always going to be something that we'd get involved in at PremiAir,” Dane said of the alliance.

“We'll see how it pans out, but I'm optimistic that it'll be a benefit.”

The new-look PremiAir Camaros will hit the track in Sydney at the February 18 test day, before Round 1 action takes place across February 20-22.