{"id":190697,"date":"2025-10-05T02:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190697\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T02:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:28:21","slug":"indycar-news-marcus-armstrong-to-race-porsche-in-south-island-endurance-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190697\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar news: Marcus Armstrong to race Porsche in South Island Endurance Series"},"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\tMeyer Shank Racing driver Marcus Armstrong. Image: Paul Hurley<\/p>\n

The Armstrongs will share a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car at Highlands Motorsport Park on October 17-18 in the feature three-hour race.<\/p>\n

Rick has been a regular in New Zealand\u2019s racing scene, piloting a variety of Porsche race cars for the last decade.<\/p>\n

Marcus, meanwhile, has plied his trade in single-seaters, reaching Formula 2 before turning his attention to IndyCar.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my earliest racing memories were of Porsche Cup cars \u2013 watching my Dad race,\u201d said Marcus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be cool to share the car with him and race in front of a Kiwi crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a good season in IndyCar and although the season has only just finished, I\u2019m itching to get back in a race car.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old finished eighth in the IndyCar Series this year, trailing Meyer Shank Racing teammate Felix Rosenqvist in sixth.<\/p>\n

The Kiwi scored 11 top 10 finishes, including a breakthrough third place finish at Iowa Speedway. That represented his first oval podium.<\/p>\n

The endurance race will act as a pre-season hit-out for Rick, who will return to the GT New Zealand Championship in 2026. Rick won the last two Open Class titles in his Porsche.<\/p>\n

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The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car that Marcus Armstrong and Rick Armstrong will race in the South Island Endurance Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meyer Shank Racing driver Marcus Armstrong. Image: Paul Hurley The Armstrongs will share a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,60212,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190697","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-marcus-armstrong","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190697","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=190697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}