PremiAir hoping to rebuild crashed Commodore

By Thomas Miles

Date posted: May 28, 2024

PremiAir Nulon Racing hopes it can rebuild the damaged Super2 Commodore of Cameron McLeod after it rolled at Perth.

After making the long 4,378.4km journey from Perth to Gold Coast, the team has assessed the damage back at base.

A clash with Cooper Murray fired the #92 Coke Commodore spinning into the infield and a scary roll over unfolded at the fastest point of the circuit.

McLeod emerged from the crash unscathed, but his car did not, sustaining significant damage.

The Holden arrived back at PremiAir’s Arundel base last week where the team inspected the damage.

Despite rolling over three times, critically the roof and boot roll cage sections avoided damage, boosting the team’s hopes of a rebuild before the next round in Townsville.

“The car sustained some pretty heavy damage,” PremiAir Nulon Racing Super2 team member Zach Davis said in a video.

“A lot of the impact was on the right front and the left rear. It sort of bounced and hopped between the two of those.

“But it managed to miss the roof and the boot, which is a really good sign for us.

“It means that the main hoop and the crash structure is more than likely okay.

“There’s still a fair bit of work to do in the meantime. The strip down is going to be a couple of days.

“Triple Eight are going to send one of their fabricators down. They’re going to do a bit of an assessment for us.

“We’re going to liaise with them as to whether, A, we can get it fixed, and B, when they want it up on their jig.

“It’ll be a few weeks on the jig, and once that’s done, it gets sent off to paint.

“While the car’s away, we’ll assess all the damaged parts. We’ll assess broken arms and uprights and any componentry that got damaged during the crash, and we’ll put a bit of a list together and start reassembly.

“That will make the process of reassembly when the chassis is back a lot quicker.”

This is not the first time the chassis has been shaken up.

McLeod’s 888A-044 was first steered by Lee Holdsworth during his Team 18 days from 2016 to 2018.

Things did not get off to a great start when Holdsworth was caught in the major multi-car incident in the Esses at Hidden Valley. This unfortunately left the driver with a broken pelvis after a side on whack with the concrete.

The following year Holdsworth was taken out by an out of control Nick Percat, who suffered a brake failure in the run down to turn 1 at the 2017 Australian Grand Prix.

After a year off the chassis returned to supercars with Chris Pither in 2020, while Garry Jacobson used it from 2021-22.

Golding then took over the #31 partway through the 2022 season at PremiAir and he was caught in the significant smash up on the Beach Chicane on the Gold Coast which saw the track blocked.

Now PremiAir has another big rebuild with the chassis on its hands.

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PremiAir hoping to rebuild crashed Commodore

The Holden arrived back at PremiAir’s Arundel base last week where the team inspected the damage.

“A lot of the impact was on the right front and the left rear. It sort of bounced and hopped between the two of those.

“Triple Eight are going to send one of their fabricators down. They’re going to do a bit of an assessment for us.

“That will make the process of reassembly when the chassis is back a lot quicker.”

After a year off the chassis returned to supercars with Chris Pither in 2020, while Garry Jacobson used it from 2021-22.

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