SHANE van Gisbergen has made a remarkable comeback drive in the NASCAR Cup Series at Phoenix, recovering from two spins and a brake pedal that was falling off to claim 11th.

He was in line for a shock top ten until running out of brakes in the closing laps.

The result was his best to date in the Cup Series on the one-mile oval.

With penalties applied to multiple drivers, SVG’s 18th qualifying result became 15th for the initial green flag of the race, where he held station for the opening laps.

At the opening stage break after 60 of 252 laps, van Gisbergen placed 14th with the green and white chequered flag claimed by Ryan Blaney.

Kyle Busch suffered a flat tyre on lap 93 and hit the wall, and while he was limping back to the pits, van Gisbergen had his own flat without warning, spinning at turn 4.

With the car refusing to refire, the #97 Chevrolet lost a lap to the field before pitting twice under its own caution.

The race restarted on lap 101 with the Kiwi placed 36th, the seventh of the cars a lap down on the leader.

The yellows flashed on again quickly for a Daniel Suárez spin that also swept up Chase Elliot.

Then, Chase Briscoe’s wretched season continued when he suffered a failure, which ended heavily against the turn four wall.

Van Gisbergen caught a break back onto the lead lap when Noah Gragson pounded the wall on lap 158, with William Byson, Connor Zilisch and Michael McDowell subsequently suffering flat tyres.

Following another epic restart, van Gisbergen claimed 20th in the stage, which was won by Christopher Bell.

Restarting P20 for the final leg, SVG gained one place on lap 211 when Ryan Preece spun after contact with Zilisch in the dogleg.

After stopping, van Gisbergen restarted 22nd, and possibly ran over debris when multiple cars tangled on the next restart, including Austin Cindric, Ross Chastain, Joey Logano, Anthony Alfredo and Bubba Wallace.

On lap 246, Austin Dillon spun van Gisbergen coming to the start-finish line, resulting in a caution.

“He just drove into me, I think,” noted van Gisbergen on the radio.

After two further stops, van Gisbergen restarted 29th with 60 laps to go, before another multi-car pile-up featuring Logano, AJ Allmendinger, Suarez and Josh Berry.

The three-time Supercars champion locked up his tyres in narrowly avoiding the wreck.

From 26th, SVG raced to 22nd when the next caution fell for Dillon, following a glut of tyre failures.

Taking on two tyres at the green flag, van Gisbergen reported that his brake pedal was ‘about to fall off’ as he restarted ninth with 19 laps remaining.

Another yellow saw SVG placed tenth when the green flag waved with 12 circuits to go, dropping a spot in the sprint to the line as Erik Jones made it past.

The race was won by Ryan Blaney for a Team Penske sweep after Josef Newgarden won the IndyCar race.

Second went to Christopher Bell, Kyle Larson, Ty Gibbs, Denny Hamlin, Wallace, Byron, and Tyler Reddick, with McDowell in ninth.

Next week, the NASCAR Cup Series remains in the desert, with a return to the 1.5-mile-long Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Mark Adderton’s wild Toyota Camry spin!

A huge lose from Mark Adderton at Lakeside back in 1997 in the Aussie Super Tourers – and he has another spin not long after he got it all up and rolling again! Classic clip from the old days of the two-litre series.