{"id":277804,"date":"2025-10-04T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277804\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:00:18","slug":"well-rounded-shane-van-gisbergen-arrives-to-roval-as-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277804\/","title":{"rendered":"Well rounded Shane Van Gisbergen arrives to Roval as favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"

With each passing week, Shane Van Gisbergen<\/a> is becoming more of a well-rounded product and now comes the Charlotte Motor Speedway where he is once again the favorite to win a Cup Series road course race.<\/p>\n

And despite his first round elimination from the playoffs, \u2018SVG\u2019 continues to show rapid improvement on ovals with his first career top-10 and upper-level passing statistics at Kansas, even in a race spent mostly off the lead lap.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of look at the season separately, like the road courses and the ovals, because it definitely tells two stories,\u201d said Van Gisbergen. \u201cBut yeah, I certainly felt like I was the most confident I\u2019ve been to move around.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, I just get stuck to one line, and I felt like I could run the bottom or the top or the middle and just search for air. It\u2019s taken me a while to learn how to do that; learn to read where the other drivers are going to go in the corners and how to search for it. It\u2019s still pretty new to me, really, when I\u2019m doing those races. So yeah, I\u2019m just evolving, I guess, but I still know I have a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Shane <\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet<\/p>\n

Photo by: Chris Graythen – Getty Images<\/p>\n

But really, at least in the current championship format, a driver that can win three-plus road course races and then start to challenge for top-10s on ovals is a very dangerous weapon. Really, it\u2019s a dangerous weapon regardless of the format.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think I\u2019m getting better, yeah,\u201d said Van Gisbergen. \u201cCertainly, I\u2019m learning a lot more working with the same team. Last year, the car would be prepared at Trackhouse (and) then given to Kaulig Racing<\/a> to run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like this year, I\u2019ve been able to have some influence and guidance on the setup. We\u2019ve gone a bit of a different way this year. It\u2019s something I thought would be better and it has worked. It\u2019s been cool to just grow and develop the car. Last year, we just ran a basic setup and I just drove it every couple of months. Whereas this year, being in the car all the time, I feel like I\u2019ve learned what the car needs and been able to make the car better and hopefully adapt my style to it, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve gotten better and the car\u2019s gotten better and the results have shown that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working closely with teammate Chastain
\n \"Shane <\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, Ross Chastain, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet<\/p>\n

Photo by: Chris Graythen – Getty Images<\/p>\n

And a lot of that development has been owed to Ross Chastain<\/a>, a gesture that gets extended to Ross Chastain on road courses as he fights to advance into the Round of 8 this weekend and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe normally work together pretty close on the road courses anyway,\u201d Van Gisbergen added. \u201cHe sat in on one of my sim sessions and I sat in on one of his last week. We just bounce ideas off each other. Our car setups are normally pretty close on road courses, so we try and work together. Any questions he has, I answer them. It goes the other way on ovals, too. I\u2019m happy to pay it back this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, most believe this race still runs through \u2018SVG\u2019 and even in a world where he never raced anything like the Roval in Supercars, the three-time champion views this as just another track that favors his particular skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, you still have to be precise,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to hit them with the right angle. You\u2019re generally pretty aggressive on how you drive the car and how you treat the car. It feels pretty rough. The backstretch chicane, in particular, and the frontstretch lap this year I think will still be rough, but not as rough as last year. You can\u2019t cut it as much with the bundle that they put. I think that\u2019s a pretty good resolution they\u2019ve come up with. It stops the question of cutting too much but also, it\u2019s quite violent on the car if you abuse it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a pretty good thing they\u2019ve done there. But, yeah, you still have to be precise here. It\u2019s a hard track to get things right, but you can grab the car by the scruff of the neck, too, and send it pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not a guaranteed win at the Roval
\n \"Shane <\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet<\/p>\n

Photo by: Chris Graythen – Getty Images<\/p>\n

His status as the favorite aside, SVG takes nothing for granted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a guarantee in this series,\u201d he said. \u201cBut yeah, I think it\u2019s a nice feeling. I don\u2019t feel any more pressure, but it\u2019s nice people think so high of us now. It\u2019s a cool feeling that everyone knows the 88\u2019s going to be pretty good this weekend. I like that. You certainly feel a pretty good atmosphere in the shop on a road course week. My teammates are strong on road courses, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it puts any more pressure or expectation from outside. I guess from other drivers and media, maybe. But yeah, I find it\u2019s a nice feeling to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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