Shane van Gisbergen is honoring his nation of origin with this weekend’s paint scheme for the NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The monitor is about as shut because the sequence ever will get to New Zealand throughout the yr, however nonetheless practically 7,000 miles aside.
The automobile options the silver fern throughout the wrap, in addition to the southern cross, and a number of other crimson stars.
“We’ve got our pals at Jockey again on the automobile, and amazingly, they let me have some affect on the design,” stated van Gisbergen in a video posted by Trackhouse Racing. “After all, I went New Zealand-themed. Superb to have the silver fern on it … fairly cool wanting race automobile.
“Clearly, I am a bit biased. Obtained the crimson stars of my nation and I feel it appears to be like fairly powerful. Fairly stoked to characterize New Zealand as a lot as I can, and due to Jockey for letting me do this. I used to be fairly speechless after I first noticed this automobile.”
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Van Gisbergen, who was eradicated from the NASCAR Cup playoffs within the Spherical of 16, at present sits twelfth within the championship standings after his fifth win of the season final week on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. Profitable by over 15 seconds, he’s once more tied with Denny Hamlin for probably the most wins of any driver this yr.
Whereas all of his victories have come on street programs, he lately secured his first oval high ten at Kansas Speedway. SVG has additionally clinched the 2025 NASCAR Cup Rookie of the 12 months honors.
Outlook for Vegas and spectacular qualifying effort
The final time the Cup Collection visited Vegas, SVG began twenty eighth and completed thirty fourth after a crash. He additionally ran this race one yr in the past, putting twenty ninth with Kaulig Racing. Taking a look at his apparent oval development, it is probably the Kiwi goes to enhance on that outcome this weekend.
Saturday on the monitor seemed sturdy for SVG, as he managed to out-qualify each of his Trackhouse teammates, Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez. Suarez will begin seventeenth, Chastain fifteenth, and van Gisbergen thirteenth for Sunday’s race race on the intermediate 1.5-mile oval. He bested Chastain by simply 0.008s on the time sheets, and was 0.059s away from Suarez.
Excluding Dover the place qualifying was rained out, that is simply the third time this yr van Gisbergen has began inside the highest 15 for a points-paying race. He began eleventh for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, tenth at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and now thirteenth at Vegas (+15 higher than his most up-to-date Vegas Cup race).
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