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Acura MSR to Continue With Full-Season Driver Lineup in 2026

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31 Oct. 2025 • 17:23
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Building on an impressive 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season running two full-season GTP entries, Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb Agajanian (“Acura MSR”) is excited to welcome back Tom Blomqvist, Colin Braun, Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly to contest the team’s 2026 IMSA GTP campaign.

 

Blomqvist and Braun will head into their third season as teammates with Acura MSR and will once again run the No. 60 Acura ARX-06 following strong campaigns in 2023 and 2025. The pair kicked off the 2025 season with a runner-up finish at Daytona and scored a second podium finish at the first-ever Indianapolis 10 hour race at IMS.

 

Blomqvist and Braun also scored a breakout victory at the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen, adding to their tally of two wins and four podiums in 2023 onboard the Acura LMDh machine. Blomqvist additionally took a Rolex 24 at Daytona win with MSR and Acura in 2022, en route to earning the IMSA DPi Championship that year.

 

The sister No. 93 Acura ARX-06 will be driven by Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly. In their first season with Acura MSR, the duo took an impressive victory at the Detroit Grand Prix in June, and had two additional podium finishes at Sebring and Road America. The No. 93 entry, which is race engineered by Honda Racing Corporation USA, will be looking to build on those results for 2026.

 

Among Acura MSR’s success in 2025, the team continued to impress on qualifying day, sprinting to four pole positions on the year – Yelloly two, Blomqvist and van der Zande each with one. The string of podium results and victories helped the team score second place in the manufacturers’ championship for Acura.

 

“I’m really looking forward to 2026 and in many ways, there is no off-season,” said Blomqvist. “We’ve already started preparing and bringing back the same roster which will be a huge advantage. Everyone on the team has the talent and drive, and with HRC behind us, there’s no reason we can’t bring home the 2026 championship.”

 

Further announcements regarding the team’s endurance driver lineup will be made at a later date.

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