{"id":60684,"date":"2025-07-12T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60684\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:30:10","slug":"nascar-cup-qualifying-results-at-sonoma-svg-continues-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60684\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup qualifying results at Sonoma: SVG continues domination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SONOMA, Calif. \u2014 It remains to be seen at Sonoma Raceway if anyone can beat Shane van Gisbergen this summer on the road courses in the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-attachment-id=\"58197\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theracingexperts.com\/shane-van-gisbergen-chicago-street-course-2025-sophia-lariche\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theracingexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shane-Van-Gisbergen-Chicago-Street-Course-2025-Sophia-LaRiche.jpg?fit=2544%2C1696&amp;quality=65&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2544,1696\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1751810293&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;155&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shane Van Gisbergen Chicago Street Course 2025 Sophia LaRiche\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo: Sophia LaRiche\/TRE&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theracingexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shane-Van-Gisbergen-Chicago-Street-Course-2025-Sophia-LaRiche.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;quality=65&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theracingexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shane-Van-Gisbergen-Chicago-Street-Course-2025-Sophia-LaRiche.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;quality=65&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shane-Van-Gisbergen-Chicago-Street-Course-2025-Sophia-LaRiche.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58197\"  \/>Photo: Sophia LaRiche\/TRE<\/p>\n<p>The results for NASCAR Cup Series qualifying showed Shane van Gisbergen paced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonomaraceway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonoma Raceway<\/a> in 74.594 seconds as the only driver to average 96 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Briscoe will start second for his eighth top five start of the 2025 Cup Series season. William Byron, Ross Chastain, A.J. Allmendinger, Ty Gibbs, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman and Christopher Bell rounded out the top 10 starters.<\/p>\n<p>Notables outside of the top-10:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kyle Larson: 11th<\/li>\n<li>Chase Elliott: 13th<\/li>\n<li>Chris Buescher: 14th<\/li>\n<li>Michael McDowell: 15th<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Busch: 17th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the battle for the playoffs, Ryan Preece will start the race eight points above the playoff cutline. Preece will start 20th, 10 spots ahead of Bubba Wallace, who left Chicago with a two-point advantage on Preece.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, Allmendinger ran the fastest lap \u2014 75.95 seconds, averaging 94.325  mph. Gibbs, SVG, Chastain, Kyle Larson, Bell, Blaney, Daniel Suarez, Reddick and John Hunter Nemechek rounded out the top 10 in practice.<\/p>\n<p>William Byron ran 11th fastest, Chase Elliott ran 15th and Kyle Busch ran 18th.<\/p>\n<p>SVG had the fastest 10-lap consecutive average, averaging 93.303 mph to Chastain\u2019s 93.054 mph average, Bell\u2019s 93.037 mph, Larson\u2019s 92.921 mph and Gibbs\u2019 92.817 mph.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theracingexperts.com\/nascar-at-sonoma-2025-odds-and-more-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR at Sonoma 2025: Odds and more info<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752359410_233_cfc515c5c8a86ef4716de01428ff40ed1ea63c3cbe1c72f3cccd45aa8572707e\"  class=\"avatar avatar-140 photo\" height=\"140\" width=\"140\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick&#8217;s final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen&#8217;s stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years \u2013 as well as up-and-coming drivers&#8217; stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SONOMA, Calif. \u2014 It remains to be seen at Sonoma Raceway if anyone can beat Shane van Gisbergen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-60684","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\/114842633734324752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60684","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=60684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}