{"id":196048,"date":"2025-12-22T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196048\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:07:16","slug":"gambling-giants-aston-martin-laps-perth-track-in-49-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196048\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling giant\u2019s Aston Martin laps Perth track in 49 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GT World Challenge Australia driver Elliott Schutte and former Radical Cup driver BD Soutar-Dawson each cut laps of the Perth circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The car is owned by online gaming and gambling entrepreneur Laurence Escalante, who has a cache that would be the envy of any motoring enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p>Escalante also had a McLaren Solus GT at Wanneroo Raceway, where it\u2019s understood to have also cut a 49-second lap.<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts eclipse the previous closed course lap record held by Tim Slade of 51.574s behind the wheel of the Xtreme GTR Nissan Skyline R32.<\/p>\n<p>The track-only Valkyrie is understood to be the first of its kind in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GT World Challenge Australia driver Elliott Schutte and former Radical Cup driver BD Soutar-Dawson each cut laps of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,216,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-196048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-slot3","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}