PremiAir reveals latest HRT tribute
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 10 September 2025
For the second year in a row, PremiAir Racing will take on the Supercars enduros with some famous HRT colours.
The new livery is the work of former HRT designer Peter Hughes and will be raced by the teammates at both this weekend’s AirTouch 500 at The Bend and October’s Great Race.
Last year PremiAir applied the 2008 HRT livery to its Camaros, and James Golding and David Russell claimed a maiden podium at Sandown.
This year the 2010 HRT livery has been the inspiration behind the team’s 2025 enduro scheme.
Golding and Russell will reunite again, while a new combination will be on the other side of the garage Richie Stanaway and Nash Morris.
“How fantastic do these cars look – Peter (Hughes) has done another incredible job, I was so happy with our look last year for the enduro season and this year is no different, it looks amazing,” Xiberras said.
“Peter is such a legend in design, and the cool thing is that he designs these things by hand, and then our friends at SS Designs translates that into the digital format for creating the wraps.
“To see his work in action and how it develops is really something else and we feel very lucky to have a mind like his behind our liveries once again as we head into this important juncture of the 2025 Supercars Championship season.
“Here’s hoping these head-turning looks can help us deliver some equally head-turning results at The Bend and Mount Panorama!”
The livery resembles the HRT look of 2010 when Garth Tander swept hte Adelaide 500.
Hughes was connected with HRT from the very start and has many highlights from the countless iconic liveries he produced.
“While bringing the feel of the cars he liked ‘back in the day’ together with a modern twist for a fresh new livery that still has those obvious ‘Holden factory’ overtones to it. It is a real feel good car I think,” Hughes said of the new livery.
“While I didn’t do their first liveries – that was Mike Simcoe – I used to be involved with the sponsored placement and then in 1997 they invited me to do the full livery for HRT and that kind of kicked it all off.
“I did that, and then I did their Young Lions car, a little for Perkins, and then I had a big break before getting involved again in 2006 with HRT, getting to know Simon McNamara who was Head of Motorsport there for a while (and is now at Chevy), and it just snowballed from there.
“So from there I was always doing liveries, a lot of those in-house, but once Holden closed I opened myself up as I no longer had to stay with the GM brand, so I have done liveries for Fords and Toyotas and who knows what now, it just grew from there and I have been doing it a long time.
“The first one, the HRT one in 1997, was certainly exciting because it is a little different to be designing a livery compared to designing a car – designing a car will take three or four years before anyone sees it because it is such a long process with the engineering and everything to bring it to market, where with a livery you draw it up within a week, make a couple of changes, and send it off to the team and within a month it is racing and you get to see it on the TV and see you work in action.
“So, for a young bloke, it is a rush seeing your work out there in the public and I think that is the thing I remember most. I was definitely very proud of that first one.
“The 2019 heritage livery for Red Bull and Triple Eight Race Engineering is another – they allowed us to do a red and white car for that year based on the 1971 HDT Torana.
James Golding drove the 2008-retro liveried Camaro to a podium last year.
“It wasn’t so much about the design as it was about the fact that we fought hard to make it happen and they let us do it, which was amazing.
“And this is going to sound a bit funny – but last year’s PremiAir Racing cars for Sandown and Bathurst are absolutely one of my favourites of all time, and easily were the best I had done on Camaros (to that time) I feel.”
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