Roland Dane

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Roland Dane
Born (1956-10-17) October 17, 1956 (age 65) [1]
Belfast, [[Northern Ireland]
NationalityIrish-Australian
OccupationBusinessman
TitleCompany Director of Park Lane (UK) Limited
Team Principal and Managing Director of Triple Eight Race Engineering
Independent Non-Executive Director of PWR Performance Products
Children Jessica Dane (daughter)
Parent(s)

Roland William Surrey Dane (born 17 October 1956) [1] is an Irish-Australian automotive businessman who is best known for co-founding motorsport teams Triple Eight Racing in Britain and Triple Eight Race Engineering in Australia, of which he will remain as team principal until the end of 2021.

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Career

United Kingdom

Dane is the son of David Dane, a leading British pathologist and clinical virologist. [2] Dane started his career at automotive manufacturer Panther Westwinds as an apprentice in 1975 and then working in various roles including as a sales executive before his departure from the company in 1984. [3] In 1986, Dane founded car dealership Park Lane Limited, based in London, that now focuses on selling luxury cars across the British Isles and Asia Pacific. [3]

In partnership with racing driver Derek Warwick, Dane founded the Park Lane Racing team in 1991, and they competed in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in 1992 and 1993. Dane, Warwick and Ian Harrison then founded Triple Eight Race Engineering in late 1996, with the team becoming six-times series champions as the works Vauxhall team from 1997 until Vauxhall left the category in 2009. [4] The team, which later took on manufacturer support from MG, ceased trading in 2018. [5]

By 2002, Dane and Warwick had sold their share in the team and Dane moved to Australia. [4] As part of its British operations, Triple Eight Racing had already competed in two events in Australia in the late 1990s; the 1997 and 1998 Bathurst 1000 races which were run to Super Touring regulations and open to BTCC entrants for the only time. [6] Alongside co-owner Warwick, the team hired local Holden drivers, a sister company to Vauxhall, across the two years, including nine-time event winner Peter Brock in 1997. [7] The team's second entry in 1998 was also re-branded as a Holden. [8]

Australia

In 2003, after initial discussions to buy the Holden Racing Team, following the collapse of owners Tom Walkinshaw Racing, were aborted, Dane purchased V8 Supercars team Briggs Motor Sport. This signalled the formation of Triple Eight Race Engineering (Australia) with Warwick, Harrison and Peter Butterly as business partners. [9] The team also recruited French engineer Ludo Lacroix, who had worked for the team in the BTCC era, to the Australian operation and he took on the role as Technical Director before later defecting to rivals DJR Team Penske in 2016. [10]

Craig Lowndes won the team its first race in 2005 and went on to win three consecutive Bathurst 1000s from 2006 to 2008 with Jamie Whincup. Whincup also won the championship in 2008 and 2009 for Ford before Roland Dane brokered a manufacturer switch to Holden for 2010. In the 2010s, the team won six further championships, five of them Whincup's, and four Bathurst 1000s. From 2016 onwards, the team also became the factory Holden team in the category. [11]

During this time, Dane held a position on the Supercars Board of Directors for 12 out of 14 years between 2004 and 2017. [12] As at 2014, Dane had become majority owner of the team, with Harrison holding a minority stake. [13] In 2015, Dane then sold a minority stake to Paul Dumbrell, Tim Miles and Trinette Schipkie while Jamie Whincup and Dane's daughter Jessica became part-owners in 2018, replacing Schipkie. [14] [15] In 2016, Dane became an Australian citizen. [16] In 2021, Dane announced that he would step down from his roles at Triple Eight at the end of the year, to be replaced by Whincup who announced his retirement from full time driving. Dane's ownership stake in the team also reduced to 11%. [17] [18]

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