Acura MSR Returns to Indianapolis for a Six Hour Battle on the Bricks

GTP Endurance Cup title still up for grabs

Indianapolis, Ind. (Sept. 16, 2025) — Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian (“Acura MSR”) looks to continue its late-season momentum when it returns to iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway for six hours of competition in Sunday’s TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks, the penultimate round of both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Michelin Endurance Cup.

Both of the team’s entries were winners in the two of the four most recent events for the premier GTP class racing the LMDh Prototypes.

So far this season Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly – who will be joined in Indy by driver Kakunoshin “Kaku” Ohta – won at the Detroit Grand Prix in the No. 93 MSR Acura ARX-6 while Tom Blomqvist and Colin Braun were Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen victors in the No. 60 Acura ARX-6.

Yelloly and van der Zande enter Round 9 fourth in the GTP championship. Yelloly was the pole winner in the most recent event at Road America, where the team took P3 in its third podium finish of the season. Yelloly’s pole was also the third in back-to-back-to-back qualifying triumphs for the No. 93 Acura.

Braun and Blomqvist are currently third in the five-race IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup (IMEC), just five points behind the lead. In addition to Indy’s Battle on the Bricks, the IMEC includes the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, Sahlen’s Six Hours of Watkins Glen and season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. They enter the event sixth in the GTP points, finishing second at Daytona in addition to their Watkins Glen victory.

In the 2023 edition of the IMSA Indianapolis Motor Speedway event, Blomqvist and Braun were involved in an opening lap incident after starting third, which led to a seventh-place finish for MSR.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the site of Meyer Shank Racing’s biggest victory to date with Helio Castroneves scoring his record-tying fourth Indianapolis 500 win driving for MSR in INDYCAR competition in 2021. The IMS road course was also the location of MSR’s first INDYCAR podium finish in 2019, including a front-row start and laps led with driver Jack Harvey.

Shank’s road to IMSA and INDYCAR took off in prototype sports cars, beginning with Grand-Am’s Daytona Prototypes in 2004. The team raced in three of the four IMSA prototype weekends at IMS, with a best finish of sixth in the 2014 event, with drivers John Pew and Ozz Negri. Previously, MSR ran DPs in the two Grand-Am Rolex Series rounds in 2012 and 2013, with a best finish of seventh with Pew and Negri in 2013.

Practice for the Battle on the Bricks begins with a 90-minute session on Friday at 11:15 a.m. (all times ET) and another 90-minute practice at 8:55 a.m. on Saturday. Qualifying is slated for Saturday afternoon and will be streamed live on Peacock starting at 3:10 p.m. The six-hour race begins at 11:40 a.m. on Sunday, with flag-to-flag streaming coverage on Peacock, and live NBC coverage the last three hours, 3:00-6:00 p.m.

As always, the race can be found on SiriusXM channel 206.

Following Indianapolis, only the Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta (Oct. 12) remains on the 2025 WeatherTech Championship schedule.

Meyer Shank Racing Team Quotes:

Colin Braun: “I know everyone at HRC and Acura MSR is really looking forward to getting back to the race track! Indy is an interesting track layout that will certainly challenge us in how it races. The length of the race and traffic management will be key for us. We’ve had a chance to do some testing at IMS and this entire group continues to gel together more and more. I know the Acura will be well-suited to this track, and our boys and girls have been working extra hard on the pit stops which all has us very eager to get going!”

Nick Yelloly: “Looking forward to racing in Indy as it’s always a special place to race and I enjoyed being a fan at the Indy 500 this year. But this six hour event is pretty chaotic with the different class categories and lots of cars on a short, tight track. So, going to try and keep our noses clean, be patient, and wait until the last couple of hours to make some moves. But from the run we’ve been on recently, there’s no reason we can’t fight at the front once again.