{"id":154330,"date":"2025-08-17T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154330\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:55:09","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-reacts-to-first-nascar-cup-start-at-richmond-that-was-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154330\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen reacts to first NASCAR Cup start at Richmond: ‘That was fun’"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been so many wins for Shane van Gisbergen<\/strong> on road courses this year that it\u2019s a little easy to forget he\u2019s still a relative newcomer to NASCAR in general. Richmond provided an interesting opportunity.<\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen is looking to prove he can do more than just win road courses. And to that end, getting experience at some of the other tracks is key.<\/p>\n

Saturday was his first start at Richmond. And Shane van Gisbergen more than held his own. He finished P14 on the day, a very encouraging showing as the playoffs near.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was fun! A good recovery and great result in my first Cup start at Richmond,\u201d he said, per NBC Sports\u2019 Nate Ryan<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cTire strategy was huge tonight and my No. 88 team did an awesome job executing. Some good momentum for us as we get closer to the playoffs. Looking forward to seeing what we can accomplish at Daytona.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 14th-place finish tied Shane van Gisbergen\u2019s best finish on a non-road course this season. He also finished 14th at Charlotte earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

If he can continue trending in the right direction on ovals he\u2019s got a chance to become a serious threat in the playoffs and beyond. There\u2019s still work to be done, to be sure, but he seems to be making strides as he gets more familiar with the various track offerings.<\/p>\n

Kevin Harvick<\/strong> recently opened up on the possibility that the entire discourse around Shane van Gisbergen could change<\/strong><\/a> should he win on an oval. Right now, he\u2019s seen as a master of the road courses but a bit of a one-trick pony.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s won so much so fast on the road courses that many in the sport aren\u2019t quite sure where he fits in. Harvick offered a comparison.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at the guy they\u2019re comparing him to in how fast he\u2019s won two of these starts,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cIt\u2019s Dan Gurney<\/strong>, OK, from the \u201960s. That\u2019s what we\u2019re comparing it to. It\u2019s not like this is different. It\u2019s not something new, it\u2019s just something that most fans don\u2019t recognize because they don\u2019t know anything about the 1960s and the NASCAR history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy that SVG is getting compared to is Dan Gurney. And that happened a long time ago. So it\u2019s not new.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can Shane van Gisbergen break the mold and win on an oval? Time will tell. But Saturday was a definite step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been so many wins for Shane van Gisbergen on road courses this year that it\u2019s a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-154330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115046811485075346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}