At Sonoma Raceway, Chase Briscoe almost reached the again bumper of Shane van Gisbergen within the last nook of the race. Van Gisbergen held on, successful by simply 0.357s — the closest margin of victory in any of his 14 NASCAR victories up to now.
Trackhouse Racing’s Stephen Doran, who works with SVG because the No. 97 crew chief, asserted that that they had the slower automobile within the closing laps, however SVG made up the distinction.
“He (SVG) stated when he went to go, he simply did not have something,” recalled Doran on Contained in the Race. “He (SVG) stated I do not know if it is as a result of I received in a little bit little bit of site visitors behind the 7 [Daniel Suarez] after which the 51 [Cody Ware], and simply warmed my tires up greater than I had earlier than, however he was like, ‘I am telling you, I did not have the rest.’
“It is fortunate we had him (SVG), or I do not suppose we win that race yesterday.”
Within the post-race press convention at Sonoma, Doran expressed the same sentiment, noting that the automobile wasn’t to Van Gisbergen’s liking all wekend.
“Yeah, thank God we’ve him, or we would not be right here proper now,” stated Doran. “We did lots of work in a single day attempting to get it higher. I’m nonetheless actually unsure what it was that he did not like about it, however he, truthfully, hated the automobile all weekend.
“I’d say it was barely higher at this time, however nonetheless not nice. Inferior to it was final yr.”
Doran has been Van Gisbergen’s crew chief for the reason that begin of the 2025 season, successful seven Cup races collectively over the previous two years. Van Gisbergen is now 14th within the championship standings, 36 factors above the Chase cut-line.
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