{"id":337057,"date":"2025-12-09T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337057\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:44:19","slug":"matt-stone-racing-signs-ayrton-hodson-for-2026-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337057\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Stone Racing signs Ayrton Hodson for 2026 return"},"content":{"rendered":"

MATT Stone Racing has confirmed the first driver signature for its reborn Dunlop Super2 Series program.<\/p>\n

As revealed by V8 Sleuth<\/a>, MSR is returning to the feeder series in 2026 utilising Triple Eight-built, Jason Gomersall-owned ZB Commodores.<\/p>\n

One of its cars will be driven by Ayrton Hodson<\/a>, who recently wrapped up his rookie campaign with Ford-aligned Anderson Motorsport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly excited for this opportunity and proud to be joining MSR,\u201d said the Kiwi.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMSR has a great reputation for developing young drivers, and to be part of that is something I\u2019ve worked hard toward. I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alice Buckley and Tommy Smith are also thought to be in contention for a seat and will have the chance to impress at a Queensland Raceway evaluation day next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to be re-entering the Super2 Series,\u201d said Matt Stone, whose eponymous outfit won the second-tier title in 2017 through Todd Hazelwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Matt Stone Racing last competed in Super2 in 2022. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper2 has always been an important part of our identity as a team, and the plan was always to return to Super2 when the time was right.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a successful execution of our wildcard program in 2025 the timing is perfect to expand upon that with a return to Super2.\u201d<\/p>\n

MSR\u2019s return comes at a time when several main game squads are scaling back their Super2 involvement including Triple Eight, Walkinshaw Andretti United and Erebus Motorsport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MATT Stone Racing has confirmed the first driver signature for its reborn Dunlop Super2 Series program. As revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337058,"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-337057","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\/337057","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=337057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}