Acura Targets Rolex 24 Glory at Daytona in 2026 Season
For the 2026 season, Acura has again partnered with Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian. The team delivered Acura’s 2022 and 2023 Rolex wins and finished second last year. Acura and MSR combined to finish second in the Manufacturers' title race in both the full-season championship and the Michelin Endurance Cup.
Acura MSR will field two electrified Acura ARX-06 GTP class prototypes, the #60 and #93 entries. The team has updated both cars in the offseason. It has revised the rear and front aero, as well as the sidepod and engine cover, to meet new exhaust rules for the 2026 IMSA season.
The #93 GTP keeps a strong Honda Racing Corporation USA (HRC US) presence within the organisation. The HRC US team will again strategise and engineer the racecar, as it did in the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech competition.
The #60 Acura ARX-06 will be driven by Colin Braun, Tom Blomqvist, Scott Dixon and AJ Allmendinger. The four drivers share ten Rolex wins between them (Braun 3, Blomqvist 2, Dixon 4, Allmendinger 1). Blomqvist helped deliver Acura MSR’s 2022 and 2023 victories, and Braun joined the effort for the 2023 win.
Braun, Blomqvist, Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist drove to a second-place finish in last year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. They later secured a third-place finish in the Michelin Endurance Cup for the entry. The #60 team also returned to victory lane in 2025, when Braun and Blomqvist won the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen in June.
The #93 Acura ARX-06 features two-time Rolex 24 winner Renger van der Zande. The rest of the line-up still seeks its first victory in the twice-round-the-clock classic. van der Zande will be joined by fellow GTP ace Nick Yelloly, reigning and four-time Honda-powered IndyCar champion Alex Palou and Japanese rising star Kakunoshin Ohta.
The #93 crew combined to take three pole positions in 2024. van der Zande and Yelloly also drove to victory in the Detroit Grand Prix last June.
Ohta, a Honda Formula Dream Project graduate, made his IMSA debut in last year’s Rolex 24. He competed as part of a five-race programme split between Acura MSR and Era Motorsport’s LMP2 programme alongside his Super Formula commitments. In Super Formula, Ohta finished third in the 2025 championship with docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda.
This marks Acura’s 12th Rolex 24 as a prototype manufacturer (1991-93, 2018-25). Alongside overall wins from 2021-23, and in 2016 under the HPD/Honda banner, Acura won the Camel Lights class at Daytona in 1991 and again in ‘92.
Fans can watch the 64th Rolex 24 at Daytona on TV and via live streaming. Television coverage starts on Saturday, January 24, at 1:30 PM ET on NBC for the opening hour. NBC will also show the finish from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM on Sunday.
Viewers can stream live flag-to-flag coverage on NBC Peacock in the US and on IMSA’s YouTube channel internationally. Radio Le Mans will also provide live flag-to-flag coverage via IMSA.com.
