The man known as SVG talks about the wild win from one year ago that led to a whole new life, why he ditched Supercars, and getting used to NASCAR.
One year ago, three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen climbed into a white-and-blue NASCAR Cup Series car on the streets of Chicago. It was the NASCAR Cup Series’ first time on a street course, and van Gisbergen’s first time racing in NASCAR’s top level—in a one-off entry backed by a part-time road crew, no less. Record rainfall flooded the track, and the television announcers couldn’t even pronounce his name. Then Shane van Gisbergen won.
Shane Van Gisbergen this season, racing in the Xfinity series Photo by: Nigel Kinrade / NKP / Motorsport Images “I've driven left-hand drive a lot, so switching back and forth doesn't bother me too much,” van Gisbergen said. “It was just the shifting . I never really had shifted with a sequential that kind of way. In the rally car, it had a shifter—but it was a proper rally gearbox, so you didn't have to clutch on the downchange or anything like that.
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