{"id":101466,"date":"2025-08-28T06:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101466\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:03:17","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-nascar-cup-series-playoffs-preview-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101466\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Preview 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT the age of 36, Shane van Gisbergen can be considered a mature age rookie in the NASCAR Cup Series, with the Kiwi looking to lean on his 19 years of experience racing at a professional level, as the Playoffs kick off this weekend in Darlington.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the first race, van Gisbergen has amassed 22 bonus Playoff Points by virtue of his four race victories and two stage wins this season, which provisionally places him sixth in the standings, some 16 points above the cut line.<\/p>\n<p>After Darlington, World Wide Technology Raceway and the Bristol Night Race, the top 12 of 16 will advance to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>For SVG, lessons learned last year in his Xfinity Series Playoff run, plus his Supercars career, will place him in good standing for his latest endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>While he won the Supercars Championship three times, he also finished in the top five at the end of the season on nine other occasions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2019-bathurst-1000-97-holden-commodore-zb-van-gisbergen-tander-model-pre-order?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_dd2c166a-3771-44ad-9c7f-0f0fc699f825_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"228602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SI202507140878-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228602\"  \/>Van Gisbergen performs his trademark celebration. Pic: Red Bull Content Pool<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember last year, the way it was approached was different to the rest of the season,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got caught up in the moment a little bit too much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did a silly strategy at the Roval. It was an unexplained mistake, really.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this year it\u2019s been good\u2026 just trying to stay level-headed, take it week by week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in an amazing spot to be here, and we have no expectation to make it through the second round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows what we\u2019re going to do. If we go and perform, we can surprise some people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just know that you can\u2019t make the mistakes because it would be hard to dig ourselves out of that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have to keep doing what we\u2019ve been doing, but it\u2019s so hard in a NASCAR race, I feel like every race you have a storyline of how the day goes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never free-flowing really, so we just have to eliminate or minimise what we do wrong, and just try to get it right every week, and that comes with preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing into the race on Sunday, I\u2019ll be nervous as anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get all that anxiety about it, and you learn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means everything to us, we\u2019ve worked all year for this, and you learn to channel it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to be nervous; it means you care about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I kind of embrace that more nowadays, and you know if you don\u2019t feel that, you\u2019re probably in the wrong sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/triple-eight-race-engineering-the-cars-2003-2023-book?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/triple_eight_the_cars_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For van Gisbergen, progressing through the opening round will be a matter of maintaining consistency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just going to be the law of averages for us, right?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be above average, and that\u2019s the shot we\u2019re going to have to get through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to have three decent finishes and we\u2019ll be able to get through the round, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know about the points total, how many certain points are the average to get through, but I know I need to get better to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT the age of 36, Shane van Gisbergen can be considered a mature age rookie in the NASCAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-101466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}