{"id":399234,"date":"2026-01-08T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:14:15","slug":"mclaughlin-seals-daytona-24-return-with-corvette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399234\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaughlin seals Daytona 24 return with Corvette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT McLaughlin will kickstart his 2026 racing season with a return to the Rolex 24 at Daytona.<\/p>\n<p>Having last year competed in the prestigious event alongside Shane van Gisbergen for Trackhouse by TF Sport, McLaughlin will be in another Corvette Z06 GT3.R in the GTD class \u2013 this time with DXDT Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The American squad, who fielded Robert Wickens in various 2025 races, will place McLaughlin alongside Mason Filippi, Charlie Eastwood and Salih Yoluc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to join DXDT Racing for Daytona,\u201d said McLaughlin, who at one stage appeared a chance to represent Porsche Penske Motorsport in the outright GTP class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2026-meguiars-bathurst-12-hour-official-program?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-12-hour-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Corvette Z06 GT3.R is an impressive machine, and working alongside Charlie, Salih and Mason gives us a really strong package heading into one of the world\u2019s most demanding races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team owner David Askew said McLaughlin adds \u201cworld-class depth\u201d to what is \u201cone of the strongest and most balanced combinations in DXDT Racing\u2019s history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour Florida race will unfold across January 24-25.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, McLaughlin will turn his attention to his sixth IndyCar campaign with Team Penske.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTT McLaughlin will kickstart his 2026 racing season with a return to the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399235,"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-399234","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\/399234","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=399234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}