{"id":409009,"date":"2026-01-12T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:30:21","slug":"cult-hero-driver-launches-two-car-motorsport-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409009\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult hero driver launches two-car motorsport team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSSIE Racing Cars driver Cody McKay will branch out to become co-owner of a newly established two-car team in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>McKay is co-owner of Chicane Motorsports along with Megan Coleman, Brad East and Andrew Benda, who respectively bring expertise in PR\/sponsorship, finance, and business.<\/p>\n<p>McKay himself will steer one of the two ARC cars, with guest drivers to rotate through the second entry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicane is the next step, two cars, bigger reach, and a structure built for partners who want real ROI,\u201d said McKay, who has built a strong social media following.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/News-Chicane-Motorsports-McKay-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245034\"  \/>Render: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Benda described Chicane Motorsports as not your \u201ctraditional race team\u201d \u2013 something which Coleman elaborated on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost teams sell sticker space. We build campaigns,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartners get content, coverage and clear reporting they can take back to the boardroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aussie Racing Cars are due to support the Bathurst 6 Hour plus a range of Supercars events including the Townsville 500 and Gold Coast 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSSIE Racing Cars driver Cody McKay will branch out to become co-owner of a newly established two-car team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409010,"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-409009","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\/409009","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=409009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}