{"id":288565,"date":"2025-10-09T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:33:09","slug":"nascar-sensation-connor-zilisch-being-lined-up-for-shock-switch-to-australian-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288565\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR sensation Connor Zilisch being lined up for shock switch to Australian series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                Change your timezone:&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                &#13;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p><b>It is a <a title=\"Connor Zilisch\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/connor-zilisch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connor Zilisch<\/a> world in <a title=\"NASCAR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/nascar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> in 2025 &#8211; the rest of us are just living in it.&#13;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nThe brilliantly talented 19-year-old phenom has claimed an incredible 10 Xfinity Series wins so far this season &#8211; the latest in an overtime thriller at Charlotte\u2019s Roval on Saturday.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nZilisch, who also happens to be a Red Bull athlete, is set to move into fulltime NASCAR Cup Series action in 2026 with Trackhouse Racing, and insiders and fans cannot wait.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThis week we got a fresh \u2018Godzilisch\u2019 update about the superstar youngster making his debut in a new series before that &#8211; namely Australia\u2019s Supercars.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"NASCAR star&#039;s family in terrifying car wreck\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1064230\/daniel-suarez-nascar-wife-julia-piquet-car-crash-family-north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR star&#8217;s family in terrifying car wreck<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch could race in Supercars<\/p>\n<p>\nThe update came from NBC\u2019s NASCAR announcer &#8211; native Aussie, Leigh Diffey &#8211; as he revealed that Zilisch could be involved in the bp Adelaide Grand Final which takes place between November 27-30.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a title=\"Diffey dropped the nugget on the Door Bumper Clear podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o9qxoTwcKh4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diffey dropped the nugget on the Door Bumper Clear podcast<\/a>, explaining: \u201cThis season, NBC have actually been kind enough to let me do this. I\u2019m actually gonna go back to Australia to do the Supercars finale. The BP Grand Final where Austin Cindric will be there &#8211; and maybe Connor Zilisch.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI think GM\u2019s behind the scenes trying to get him down there and associated with a team. So maybe there\u2019ll be two NASCAR drivers making guest appearances there.&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cSo that will be pretty cool.\u201d&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch would add to Cindric interest<\/p>\n<p>\nZilisch heading Down Under would create huge interest there, he just also happens to be a Red Bull athlete, like former F1 superstar and Aussie hero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-drivers\/daniel-ricciardo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Ricciardo<\/a>.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b><a title=\"Cindric meanwhile was announced as a Supercars combatant last month\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1060846\/nascar-cup-series-star-austrin-cindric-supercars-australia-series-switch-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cindric meanwhile was announced as a Supercars combatant last month<\/a><\/b> and he will drive a Tickford Mustang in Adelaide in November. His Cup Series playoff bid came to an end when he missed out on a Round of 8 place after Sunday\u2019s elimination race in Charlotte.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"NASCAR wins big legal battle over anti-Biden cryptocurrency\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1064220\/nascar-wins-big-legal-battle-anti-joe-biden-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR wins big legal battle over anti-Biden cryptocurrency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Change your timezone:&#13; &#13; &#13; It is a Connor Zilisch world in NASCAR in 2025 &#8211; the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[5216,1463,1461,1462,69530,1406,50,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-288565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-connor-zilisch","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-gpfans","12":"tag-graham-shaw","13":"tag-nascar","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115342816305600421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288565","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=288565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}