Three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin and wife Karly have welcomed their first child into the world.
The happy couple announced the safe arrival of Lucy on Sunday.
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“Lucy Violet McLaughlin came into our lives on 10/10/24 at 6:12pm✨,” the couple wrote on Instagram.
“You are so much more than we could’ve ever dreamed of, we love you so much 💛💝”
The post was quickly flooded with comments and likes from the motorsport community, including Australian F1 star Oscar Piastri, IndyCar drivers Christian Lundgaard, Felix Rosenqvist and champion Alex Palou.
The announcement came just hours before Bathurst 1000 was due to begin, with McLaughlin quickly introducing his daughter to motorsport after they returned home.
McLaughlin won the iconic race in 2019, which was in the middle of a historic Supercars championship three-peat.
After winning the 2020 title, the New Zealander moved to the US to race in the IndyCar series.
McLaughlin and Karly met in 2016 through friends when both were in Las Vegas for a go-kart tournament.
“It was cliched, but love at first sight really,” Karly said in a video with McLaughlin in 2020.
“We asked what each other did and you said you were a mechanic and I was like ‘oh OK, cool, whatever that means’.
“Next couple of days I followed him on social media and he had like 40,000 followers at the time and I’m like ‘what?’
“No one I knew has that many followers on Instagram, so I was like, ‘oh weird’.
“You were like, ‘yeah I’m actually a race car driver’.
“I didn’t really quite get it until I first visited in April and went to Phillip Island and then I was like, ‘oh, so you’re kind of like a big deal, you’re pretty good at this’.”
Karly moved to Australia to live with McLaughlin and they married at the end of 2019 in California.
One year later, they moved to the US when McLaughlin swapped Supercars for IndyCar.
He finished third in this year’s IndyCar championship behind Palou.