{"id":60538,"date":"2025-07-12T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60538\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:14:14","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-explains-how-nascar-career-came-to-be-things-spiraled-pretty-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60538\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen explains how NASCAR career came to be: ‘Things spiraled pretty quickly’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane van Gisbergen<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has become a budding star in the NASCAR<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Cup Series over the past two years. Following his win in what was thought to be a one-off in Chicago back in 2023, the former Supercars Championship wheelman is continuing to make a name for himself in the United States. <\/p>\n

After his latest win in Chicago this past weekend, he joined\u00a0Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a>. Speaking with\u00a0Kevin Harvick<\/a><\/strong>, SVG elaborated on how his life has changed since his victory in Illinois back in 2023, and the way his love for NASCAR has blossomed to where he stands at the moment. <\/p>\n

\u201cThings spiraled pretty quickly after Chicago,\u201d van Gisbergen stated<\/a>, hearkening back to his first NASCAR Cup Series win. \u201cLike two months before Chicago, I came over, I had signed a deal to continue in Australia for one year at least. Then, I had such a good time. It was so refreshing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThings weren\u2019t going that good in Australia, I guess, with the new car and stuff. I just was ready for a change. The way Justin [Marks]<\/strong> presented this project, you know, pretty much a year of learning and then jump into the Cup Series? I just, you know \u2014 I was at a perfect time in my career to try something different. It\u2019s been the best thing I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, NASCAR and the Supercars Championship in Australia and New Zealand are far from the same sport, even if they have similar bones. Later in his interview, SVG revealed some key challenges in the difference between the two disciplines, and how he\u2019s found success at both. <\/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.\u00a0<\/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\u00a0Chase Elliott<\/strong>\u00a0at 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

All told, the NASCAR Cup Series is happy to have Shane van Gisbergen, as he\u2019s certainly upped the intensity on road courses. Once again, he\u2019ll have a shot at the win this weekend in Sonoma. We\u2019ll see if he can get it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen\u00a0has become a budding star in the NASCAR\u00a0Cup Series over the past two years. Following his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-60538","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\/114842334869978233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60538","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=60538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}