{"id":145887,"date":"2025-09-15T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145887\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:50:15","slug":"motorsport-news-muscle-car-masters-to-return-from-hiatus-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145887\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport news: Muscle Car Masters to return from hiatus in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMCM returns to SMP in 2026. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Promoter the Australian Racing Drivers Club has announced an August 29-30 date for the first running of the popular heritage and classic car race meeting since the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

First run in 2005 as a joint venture with Australian Muscle Car Magazine, the event attracted legendary names and machines from local motorsport history.<\/p>\n

It morphed into the \u2018Sydney MasterBlast featuring the Muscle Car Masters\u2019 in 2019 before being disrupted by the COVID pandemic, after which the MCM banner was retired.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Muscle Car Masters has always been about the cars, the culture, and the people who shaped Australian motorsport,\u201d said ARDC CEO Glenn Matthews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a crowd favourite for years, and the ARDC is thrilled to bring it back in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will mark the 18th running of MCM, giving long-time fans and a new generation the chance to experience the unique atmosphere and legendary machines that made it such an iconic event.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe ARDC is dedicated to making memorable motorsport experiences, and Muscle Car Masters is exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MCM celebrates Australian motorsport. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

A statement trumpeting the return noted it \u201cpromises to be a landmark celebration of Australian motorsport, under lights, with the passion and heritage of muscle car racing on full display.<\/p>\n

\u201cFans can look forward to thrilling day and night racing across a range of heritage categories, with muscle cars from Australia\u2019s golden era of motorsport taking centre stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom classic touring cars to iconic race machines, the event will showcase the vehicles and stories that have defined generations of racing, celebrating the heritage of the sport in a way only MCM can deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MCM returns to SMP in 2026. Image: Supplied Promoter the Australian Racing Drivers Club has announced an August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-145887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}