Scott McLaughlin reveals he’s debuting in Legend cars with Kevin Harvick’s son Keelan and NASCAR’s Shane van Gisbergen as rivals

Team Penske driver Scott McLaughlin recently shared an Instagram story with his followers. He announced his debut at Legend Cars, which will be taking place onwards of June 9.

Legend Cars Racing is a spec series that mainly takes place on Dirt Tracks, Ovals, and Road Circuits. The Team Penske driver will be making his series debut alongside NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick's son Keelan Harvick and fellow Kiwi and NASCAR driver Shane Van Gisbergen.

On Monday, June 9, the Charlotte Motor Speedway uploaded the schedule for the Legends Car that will take place from June through July. The post was captioned:

"Summer Shootout season🔥🔥@cookout @uslegendcars #cookoutSSO"

The three-time Supercar champion uploaded the same to his story and confirmed his debut with the caption:

"Night 1 of " I have no idea wtf I'm doing" is tonight😅 @uslegendscar"

Screenshot of Scott McLaughlin's Instagram story via @smclaughlin93

He followed up the story with another one where he reposted Shane Van Gisbergen's story featuring a picture of the cars that will be driven by the drivers in the series.

"SSR Debut tonight 😂 @smclaughlin93 @keelanharvick," The original caption read.

Screenshot of Scott McLaughlin's Instagram story via @smclaughlin93

Scott McLaughlin has taken up #33 to race in the series. The cookout summer shootout will take place from June 9 to July 29, and most of the events take place on non-IndyCar race weekends.

So far, Scott McLaughlin has been having a decent start to his 2025 IndyCar season. At the maiden race of the season at the Firestone Grand Prix of St.Petersburg held on March 2, he took pole position and finished the race in fourth place. At the Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix held on May 4, the car #3 driver started the race in second place and finished the race in third place.

At the recently held Detroit Grand Prix on June 1, the 31-year-old driver had a decent qualifying as he secured seventh place. However, during the race, he collided with Arrow McLaren's Nolan Siegel and finished in 12th place. He was given a stop-and-go penalty for causing the incident. He will be looking forward to getting better results at the upcoming Bommarito Automotive Group 500, which will be held on June 15.

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"I'm focused on my own"-Scott McLaughlin makes his opinion known about Team Penske teammates' Indy 500 crisis

The three-time supercar champion, Scott McLaughlin, spoke about his teammates' Indy 500 crisis. The whole crisis started after the cars of Will Power and Josef Newgarden failed the post-qualifying inspection.

During the press conference held prior to the race, McLaughlin was questioned about his teammates' crisis. He mentioned that he was focused on his own race and said (via ASAP Sports),

"I'm not taking for granted. It's going to be a tough race, regardless. I know we have fast cars. Everyone feels that way, as well. I don't know. For me, I'm not worried about their race. I'm focused on my own. But we know what we need to do to sort of keep ourselves in the game."

"I've said it all month. It's been so nice to be able to come into a month where I was up the front a little further than I had been in my career. I understand the cadence a little bit more, you could say. But yeah, not really focused on what they're doing. I'm just focused on myself."

Scott McLaughlin is currently in 8th position in the driver's championship with 164 points to his name.