Vern Schuppan and his McLaren IndyCar

South Australian motorsport legend Vern Schuppan and Adelaide-based Team BRM recently completed a restoration of a McLaren M24B IndyCar, revealing the car at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.

The M24B, nicknamed "Ol'Hound", started from 33rd and last and finished in second place in the Indianapolis 500 (with Tom Sneva in 1980). It was purchased by Schuppan and restored by Team BRM.

Schuppan' s career spanned more than 330 races includes 17 championship and non-championship Formula 1 races, rookie of the year in the 1976 Indianapolis 500, winning the 1976 F5000 Rothmans Series, co-driving with Allan Moffat at Bathurst, finishing third behind IndyCar legends Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti in the 1981 Indianapolis 500 in his own four-year-old McLaren M24 and winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1983 following two second placings.

Watch Schuppan discuss the McLaren M24B IndyCar and more in the Adelaide Marriott Grand Marquee at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival with host Charlie Barlow here: