The key events in the motorsport career of Roland Dane.
| 1979 | Debut in team management, in Rallye Monte-Carlo |
| 1996 | Forms Triple Eight Racing with Derek Warwick and Ian Harrison |
| 1997 | Triple Eight Racing debuts in the British Touring Car Championship, as factory Vauxhall team |
| 1997 | Triple Eight debuts at Bathurst in Super Tourers, fielding Peter Brock in one of his arguably four ‘last’ Bathurst 1000s |
| 1998 | First BTCC race win, courtesy of John Cleland at Donington |
| 1998 | Second Bathurst 1000 start in Super Tourers, with one of its two Vectras driven by Greg Murphy and Russell Ingall |
| 2001 | First British Touring Car Championships, the start of a four-year streak in the drivers’ and a run of eight manufacturers’ titles in nine years |
| 2003 | Dane, Warwick, Harrison, and Peter Butterly form the Australian Triple Eight Race Engineering operation with the purchase of Briggs Motor Sport, effective September 1 |
| 2004 | Triple Eight Race Engineering begins fielding Cars #88 and #888 (the latter for the first time in Round 1 proper due to restrictions on the Australian Grand Prix’s timing system) |
| 2005 | First (V8) Supercars race win, courtesy of Craig Lowndes at Sydney Motorsport Park (then known as Eastern Creek) |
| 2005 | Lowndes/Yvan Muller win Sandown 500 |
| 2005 | First Bathurst 1000 pole, courtesy of Lowndes, who goes on to glance wall at The Cutting while leading; Car #888 does finish, but without a windscreen after striking future shareholder Paul Dumbrell’s errant wheel while already laps down |
| 2006 | First Bathurst 1000 win, courtesy of Lowndes and Jamie Whincup |
| 2008 | Lowndes/Whincup win Bathurst 1000 for third year in succession |
| 2008 | First (V8) Supercars Championships, the start of a run of six drivers’ titles (all Whincup) in seven years and eight teams’ titles in nine years |
| 2009 | Announces switch from Ford to Holden for following season, after losing factory support from the Blue Oval |
| 2010 | One-two in very first race running Commodores, at Yas Marina |
| 2010 | One-two in Bathurst 1000, with Lowndes/Mark Skaife prevailing over Whincup/Steve Owen in a form finish |
| 2012 | Fifth Bathurst 1000 win, courtesy of Whincup/Dumbrell |
| 2013 | Fields wildcard entry, driven by Mattias Ekstrom/Andy Priaulx, which comes close to pulling off a huge Bathurst 1000 upset; Car #1 finishes second after Whincup’s brave but unsuccessful attempt to pass Mark Winterbottom on final lap |
| 2014 | Appoints Mark Dutton Team Manager but retains Team Principal role that he stepped into after Adrian Burgess chose to leave for Walkinshaw Racing |
| 2014 | Fields Whincup to fourth consecutive drivers’ championship and sixth in total, both records (the latter of which Whincup would extend in 2017) |
| 2015 | Announces expansion to three full-time Supercars entries with signing of Shane van Gisbergen, effective 2016 |
| 2015 | Paul Dumbrell, Tim Miles, and Trinette Schipkie buy into team as part of Dane’s succession planning |
| 2016 | Holden switches factory status from Walkinshaw to Triple Eight, effective 2017 |
| 2016 | Appeal against Whincup’s penalty in that year’s Bathurst 1000 dismissed; then-Supercars CEO James Warburton moves to make peace after labelling the appeal ‘un-Australian’ |
| 2016 | Van Gisbergen wins maiden championship in first season with Triple Eight; Whincup runner-up, Lowndes fourth, and that year’s Bathurst 1000 winner, Will Davison, sixth in a Triple Eight-built Tekno Autosports car |
| 2017 | A Maranello Motorsport entry boasting Triple Eight support, and featuring Whincup and Lowndes (along with Toni Vilander) as drivers, wins Bathurst 12 Hour |
| 2017 | Triple Eight homologates ZB Commodore for competition debut in following season, although the V6 twin turbo project would be shelved in April 2018 before seeing a race |
| 2018 | Fronts televised press conference where Lowndes announces his retirement from full-time competition at season’s end |
| 2018 | Triple Eight becomes most prolific Supercars championship race-winning team, bringing up its 181st, at The Bend |
| 2018 | One-two-three in Sandown 500, led by Whincup/Dumbrell from van Gisbergen/Earl Bamber and Lowndes/Steven Richards |
| 2018 | Whincup buys into Triple Eight in sign of future role managing team when Dane steps back |
| 2018 | Triple Eight Racing, which by then has no connection to the Australian operation, closes down, in the year following its last in competition |
| 2019 | Enters GT World Challenge Asia for first time, with van Gisbergen driving in selected events |
| 2019 | Renews deal with Holden (and Red Bull) |
| 2019 | Loses Bathurst 1000 in controversial fashion and later argues that fines are no deterrent to DJR Team Penske after a second serious breach of regulations at Mount Panorama comes to light |
| 2020 | Fronts media scrum ahead of talks with General Motors after bombshell news on eve of new season that Holden is dead |
| 2020 | Triple Eight takes 200th Supercars Championship race win, in Townsville |
| 2020 | Plays key role in bringing Camaro (back) into Supercars when Gen3 takes effect in 2022 |
| 2020 | Emotional scenes at Bathurst as van Gisbergen/Tander give the Holden Racing Team its last ever win in the Great Race |
| 2021 | Announces impending retirement from Team Principal/Managing Director role at Triple Eight Race Engineering, handing over the reins to Whincup and daughter Jessica, while also selling his shareholding down to 11 percent |
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