{"id":458860,"date":"2026-06-03T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458860\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:18:26","slug":"indycar-news-team-penske-reveals-marlboro-inspired-livery-for-scott-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458860\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar news: Team Penske reveals Marlboro-inspired livery for Scott McLaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HJ1KKWbWgAAKPvm-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Magnificent Marlboro-inspired livery for McLaughlin revealed\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScott McLaughlin will drive a Marlboro-inspired livery at Gateway.<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco companies ruled the roost in the 1980s and 1990s, dominating world motorsport sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>Marlboro became synonymous with McLaren in Formula 1, with the Holden Dealer Team in the Australian Touring Car Championship, and with Team Penske in IndyCar.<\/p>\n<p>Even when brands were banned, their impact remained.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end of 2009, Helio Castroneves raced in Marlboro\u2019s colours. That year, he won his third Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Team Penske, the North American open-wheel racing giant has harked back to some of its most iconic cars.<\/p>\n<p>For the upcoming IndyCar race at Gateway, Scott McLaughlin will don a livery inspired by Helio Castroneves\u2019 Indianapolis 500 winner.<\/p>\n<p>Buy tickets to the 2026 betr Darwin Triple Crown. <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketekau.pxf.io\/5kYxK3\" style=\"color:#de482e;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway takes place on Monday, June 8 at 11am AEST with coverage live and exclusively on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The return of a classic. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Penske60?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Penske60<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/brV5YGitXn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/brV5YGitXn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team Penske (@Team_Penske) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Team_Penske\/status\/2061885750606504442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/298625\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/298625\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott McLaughlin will drive a Marlboro-inspired livery at Gateway. Tobacco companies ruled the roost in the 1980s and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5756,111,139,5757,69,41994,213],"class_list":["post-458860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-indycar","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-ntt-indycar-series","tag-nz","tag-scott-mclaughlin","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458860","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=458860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}