honda-2/acura" rel="bookmark">Acura Meyer Shank Racing will defend its Detroit Sports Car Classic title Saturday when the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship returns to the 1.7-mile downtown Detroit street circuit for the third time since moving from Belle Isle in 2024. Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly won from pole in the #93 Acura ARX-06 prototype last year. The race airs live on NBC at 4 PM ET on May 30.
Acura has won both races on the downtown circuit. Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque took the 2024 edition in their electrified ARX-06. Before the move, Acura recorded four victories on the Belle Isle Park street course, including the 2019 overall win for Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya in their ARX-05 prototype, consecutive GTD-class wins for the NSX GT3 in 2017 and 2018, and an overall win in 2008 with the ARX-01b prototype.
This year’s entry list includes two Meyer Shank ARX-06s. The #93 stays with Yelloly and van der Zande. The #60 runs Colin Braun and Tom Blomqvist. At 100 minutes, the Detroit Sports Car Classic ties the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach as the shortest race on the 2026 IMSA schedule. The #93 team won at Long Beach and will attempt to sweep the 100-minute street races.
The downtown Detroit circuit presents the kind of barrier-lined chaos that rewards precision over the full race distance. Street racing typically produces incidents from minor misjudgments, and last year’s edition delivered on that entertainment value without incident severity. Meyer Shank Racing enters as the defending winner on a course where Acura has been unbeaten since the series moved downtown.
Live flag-to-flag coverage will be available on NBC Peacock in the U.S. and on IMSA’s YouTube channel internationally. Radio Le Mans carries live audio via IMSA.com. Television coverage on NBC begins at 4 PM ET Saturday.
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