Shane Van Gisbergen has discovered it very easy to promote NASCAR to outsiders as a result of he was one too and he’s actually loved studying this world himself over the previous three years since making the soar from Australian Supercars.
In some methods, it makes him the proper ambassador when speaking to non-fans at novelty occasions like final weekend at Naval Base Coronado, that NASCAR stated was attended by 67 % of ticket consumers who had by no means gone to a race earlier than.
“That’s why it’s cool going to new locations and seeing new folks,” Van Gisbergen stated on Saturday when requested concerning the subject at Sonoma Raceway. “I feel you introduce them to what the game is like and hopefully now we have some good races within the weeks after and it retains them engaged.
“I feel our sport is de facto superior.”
Van Gisbergen is aware of the worldwide racing neighborhood, one during which he’s broadly a part of, is hyper-fixated on Method 1 however he additionally thinks NASCAR has rather a lot that viewers would take pleasure in.
“As a motor sport, you do not know who’s going to win, whereas you watch F1, there’s three guys who’re going to win,” he stated. “I feel our sport is de facto cool, even at a highway course there’s 10 guys who can win. I feel that is actually cool what number of completely different storylines there are this week in our sport.
“I feel you guys (within the media) do job however now we have to do job as effectively of preserving folks and preserving the storylines coming and other people coming in direction of our sport.”
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