The category’s newest team is in a race to get to the grid for next month’s season-opener, new owner Peter Xiberras starting with a clean sheet after acquiring what was known as Team Sydney.
As part of the transformation from Team Sydney to PremiAir Racing the squad will set up a brand new factory in South East Queensland.
The initial plan was to look for a Brisbane base to be close to technical partner Triple Eight.
However the team is now set to be based closer to the Gold Coast, along with Matt Stone Racing and Dick Johnson Racing.
A deal on factory could be completed as soon as this week, although the PremiAir cars are still likely to run out of T8’s shop until at least after the opening round in Sydney.
“We’re going to be near the Gold Coast,” Xiberras confirmed on the Castrol Motorsport News podcast.
“We’re pretty close [to a deal]. I’m going up the end of this week or early next week to sign off. There are two or three places that we’re looking at, but they are all close…
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