{"id":124723,"date":"2025-09-07T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124723\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:22:11","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-nascar-cup-series-qualifying-gateway-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124723\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying Gateway Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANE van Gisbergen has qualified 18th at World Wide Technology Raceway for the second race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>With the 16 Playoff contenders the last to qualify, SVG was the 23rd driver to take to the track, following fellow Playoff contenders Josh Berry and Alex Bowman.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is van Gisbergen\u2019s first-ever appearance at the Illinois venue, with the Cup Series only having 25 minutes of practice ahead of qualifying.<\/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>From that session, the Kiwi placed 33rd, while Trackhouse Racing\u2019s other Playoff hope, Ross Chastain, was 31st fastest.<\/p>\n<p>For the race, Chastain will start 4th.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the weekend, SVG is 12th in the standings, still in line to progress to the next Playoff round, albeit with a points buffer of only three.<\/p>\n<p>The pole position went to Denny Hamlin, followed by Kyle Larson and last week\u2019s winner, Chase Briscoe.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable qualifiers from the Playoff bunch included Chase Elliot (19th) and Alex Bowman (25th).<\/p>\n<p>The race is set for a green flag at 5:00am AEST tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen has qualified 18th at World Wide Technology Raceway for the second race of the NASCAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124724,"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-124723","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\/124723","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=124723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}