{"id":406120,"date":"2026-05-01T04:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406120\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:33:18","slug":"supercars-news-supercars-mustang-hits-track-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406120\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Supercars Mustang hits track in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-8.51.49-am.png\" alt=\"Supercars Mustang hits track in Miami\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Gen3 Mustang lapping the Homestead-Miami circuit. Image: Derek King Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Photos and videos of the car at the famous NASCAR circuit appeared on social media earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The car, originally built by former Blue Oval homologation team Dick Johnson Racing, is owned by Ford and regularly used for promotional activities in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>For its Miami appearance it is carrying the 2026 Red Bull Ampol livery, although with Jamie Whincup\u2019s name rather than either of the current race drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Whincup jetted off to the States this week with helmet in hand, teasing that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-jamie-whincup-ford-mustang-triple-eight-usa-special-mission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking part in a \u201cspecial mission\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he was behind the wheel of the Mustang in Miami is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Derek King, one video shows the Mustang blasting along the speedway, while there is also an Instagram story of the Mustang leading a field of Red Bull-branded open-wheelers behind what appear to be camera cars.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1029228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-8.57.53-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"496\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mustang leading a pack of Red Bull-branded open-wheelers. Image: Derek King Instagram<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/250635.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gen3 Mustang lapping the Homestead-Miami circuit. Image: Derek King Instagram Photos and videos of the car at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20577,111,139,69,1058,213,21403],"class_list":["post-406120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-jamie-whincup","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-triple-eight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406120","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=406120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}