{"id":546882,"date":"2026-03-17T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:27:19","slug":"scott-mclaughlin-well-placed-for-barber-motorsports-park-alabama-happy-hunting-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546882\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott McLaughlin well placed for Barber Motorsports Park Alabama happy hunting ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOWHERE on the IndyCar circuit does Scott McLaughlin flourish more than Barber Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n

The Team Penske driver\u2019s last three visits to the Alabama road course have produced two wins (2023 and \u201924) and a third-place result last year.<\/p>\n

McLaughlin will head there this time around with a solid foundation to build from, coming out of the season-opening tripleheader fifth in the points.<\/p>\n

The #3 Chevrolet placed second at St. Petersburg and eighth in Phoenix before limiting the damage following a qualifying crash on the streets of Arlington with a recovery drive from 25th to 11th.<\/p>\n

That effort has kept him within touching distance of the series lead, at 41 points back from Kyle Kirkwood.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI put us on our back foot in qualifying but the guys rallied and put forth a solid effort,\u201d McLaughlin reflected, after scoring the Hard Charger of the Race Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday wasn\u2019t a huge points hit and now we go to Barber which everyone knows is a place that I love.\u201d<\/p>\n

McLaughlin also made a point of praising the brand-new Texas street circuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave to give a tip of the hat to Penske Entertainment for what they put together in Arlington,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a spectacle of an event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arlington is one of three new street circuits on this year\u2019s IndyCar calendar, along with Ontario and Washington, both of which will debut in August as part of a run of five successive race weekends to close out the season.<\/p>\n

Back on track: Brad Jones\u2019 Adelaide rollover AU<\/p>\n

The AU Falcon V8 Supercar that Brad Jones rolled over at Adelaide is back on track, and it\u2019s this week\u2019s City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOWHERE on the IndyCar circuit does Scott McLaughlin flourish more than Barber Motorsports Park. The Team Penske driver\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-546882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546882","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=546882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}