{"id":59819,"date":"2025-07-12T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59819\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:49:09","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-weighs-challenges-of-nascar-vs-supercars-reveals-aspect-he-hates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59819\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen weighs challenges of NASCAR vs. Supercars, reveals aspect he hates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane van Gisbergen<\/a><\/strong> made his name racing in the Supercars Championship in Australia and New Zealand. However, he\u2019s seen his star rise since coming to North America to drive in the NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> Cup Series.<\/p>\n

With two wins under his belt in 2025 and three overall in the Cup Series, van Gisbergen is locked into the playoffs and ready to compete for a championship this season. After his latest win in Chicago, he joined Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a>, where he spoke with Kevin Harvick<\/a><\/strong> about some key challenges in the difference between NASCAR and Supercars. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably more intense, because it\u2019s every single week and the challenge is so different every week,\u201d SVG told Harvick<\/a>. \u201cLike it\u2019s not like you\u2019re doing mile-and-a-halves each week, you\u2019re doing a different style of racetrack every single week, and the preparation and stuff is so different. Also, instead of seeing two teammates\u2019 data, I can see everyone\u2019s data. So, it\u2019s a lot more intense. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn a road course, I hate it, because everyone can see my stuff and it\u2019s all people seem to be talking about on the weekend. But especially when you go to a Pocono or a Martinsville, you study someone like Denny Hamlin<\/strong>, who\u2019s amazing at those tracks, and the tendencies he has, or Chase Elliott<\/strong> at Martinsville. There\u2019s some guys who really stand out. But when you go to like a Vegas or something, it could be anyone. You know, so there\u2019s so much stuff you got to look at now.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an interesting tidbit shared by the New Zealander, and something that doesn\u2019t come up immediately when thinking about differences between the two racing leagues. As for the car itself, SVG revealed that they\u2019re similar on paper, but there are still some intricacies he had to adjust to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re similar on paper,\u201d SVG added<\/a>, regarding the cars. \u201cBut the way they drive, I think the lock-diff is the biggest difference. Having an open diff here makes a big difference. You know, you don\u2019t have to \u2014 the technique was so unique in a supercar, with the heel and toe and running all the rear brake you could. It\u2019s a bit opposite in this car. You run as much front as you can. People make a big deal out of the right-foot braking, but it really does nothing in this car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, the NASCAR Cup Series is happy to have Shane van Gisbergen, as he\u2019s certainly upped the intensity on road courses. He\u2019ll have a shot at win No. 3 of the season this weekend in Sonoma, with another track-type in his wheelhouse taking center stage in California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen made his name racing in the Supercars Championship in Australia and New Zealand. However, he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-59819","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\/114840820945893559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59819","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=59819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}