{"id":444421,"date":"2026-01-29T04:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444421\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:58:15","slug":"nascar-news-svg-livery-reveal-for-nascar-clash-puts-rumour-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444421\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR news: SVG livery reveal for NASCAR \u2018Clash\u2019 puts rumour to bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G2iYdiNXMAAbVYs-1.jpg\" alt=\"SVG livery reveal for NASCAR \u2018Clash\u2019 puts rumour to bed\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShane van Gisbergen celebrates winning at the Charlotte ROVAL in the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation mounted during the off-season of a split between Trackhouse Racing and WeatherTech after the sponsor dropped off the team\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, the team has revealed the liveries that van Gisbergen and teammate Connor Zilisch will race \u2013 both featuring WeatherTech.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the brand remains in naming rights sponsorship capacity is unclear, though the renders all but confirm an alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gisbergen and Zilisch both appeared at the pre-season NASCAR Cup Series media day in race suits sporting WeatherTech.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, van Gisbergen will make his first NASCAR Cup Series start using the #97 while teammate Zilisch adopts the #88 on his Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n<p>Having run a blue scheme in 2025, SVG will switch to the grey scheme formerly driven by teammate Ross Chastain. Zilisch, meanwhile, will don blue.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1017842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622834434_1482758470525588_1240826384337769877_n-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Shane van Gisbergen's #97 Chevrolet Camaro for the NASCAR Cup Series Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Shane van Gisbergen\u2019s #97 Chevrolet Camaro for the NASCAR Cup Series Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium marks the first event of the 2026 season but will not pay points.<\/p>\n<p>It begins on Sunday (AEDT) with practice and qualifying before four 25-lap heat races.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a 75-lap last-chance qualifier on Monday (AEDT), which acts as the curtain-raiser to the 200-lap feature on Monday (AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>Only green flag laps count towards the 200-lap race distance.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium is live on Fox Sports and Kayo Sports from 11:30am AEDT on Monday, February 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">For more of the latest NASCAR news stories, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/motorracing.com\/nascar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotorRacing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen celebrates winning at the Charlotte ROVAL in the NASCAR Cup Series. Speculation mounted during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,955,9909,7499,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-444421","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-nascar","15":"tag-shane-van-gisbergen","16":"tag-slot4","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444421","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=444421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}