{"id":504473,"date":"2026-02-26T03:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:49:18","slug":"daniel-suarez-on-former-trackhouse-racing-teammate-shane-van-gisbergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504473\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Su\u00e1rez on former Trackhouse Racing teammate Shane van Gisbergen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANE van Gisbergen\u2019s former Trackhouse Racing teammate Daniel Su\u00e1rez has lifted the lid on the Kiwi\u2019s road course racing expertise, claiming he is beatable as the NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Circuit of the Americas this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing sixth at COTA last year, the three-time Supercars champion went on a tear, claiming five successive road course victories in Mexico, Chicago, Sonoma, Watkins Glen and the Charlotte Roval.<\/p>\n<p>For Su\u00e1rez, who moved to Spire Motorsports for 2026 after being replaced by Connor Zilisch, road courses have been a happy hunting ground in the past.<\/p>\n<p>He secured his first of two Cup Series victories at Sonoma in 2022, while last year, he won the Xfinity Series race at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p>However, alongside van Gisbergen last season in the Cup Series on road courses, he registered finishes of 36th, 19th, 29th, 14th, 35th and 7th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-2?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-2_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, SVG is very good, he\u2019s been doing road course racing for a long time,\u201d said Su\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very experienced, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s a perfect combination, right? Like, he\u2019s been doing this for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has probably the most experience on the entire field combined in road course racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut guess what? He\u2019s human.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, as far as I know, every human here is beatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we\u2019re working very, very hard to get there. I know SVG actually fairly well, and I know he has a lot of strengths, but he also has weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that there are ways to get there, but you have to be very good, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I can get there. I have been there actually in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut like I said, he\u2019s human, and I believe that not just myself, but there is many organisations out there, many drivers, that are working very hard to catch up on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd listen, he\u2019s been doing a good job, not just as a driver, but also, he has brought a lot of new ideas from Australia about how to set up the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about him jumping into any race car and winning. It\u2019s not just like that. It\u2019s him making the car do things that he\u2019s used to in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has done an amazing job; credit to him. But it\u2019s just an opportunity for us to continue to learn from that and continue to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The green flag for the race is scheduled for 7:30am AEDT on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering Garry Rogers<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut celebrates the remarkable life of Garry Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen\u2019s former Trackhouse Racing teammate Daniel Su\u00e1rez has lifted the lid on the Kiwi\u2019s road course&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-504473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504473","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=504473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}