{"id":56454,"date":"2025-08-09T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56454\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:41:14","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-qualifying-results-watkins-glen-international-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56454\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen qualifying results Watkins Glen International NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANE van Gisbergen will start from the front row of both the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series races at Watkins Glen International this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the Cup Series qualifying, the Kiwi sat on top of the timing charts for most of the session until he was displaced late by Team Penske\u2019s Ryan Blaney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2025-repco-bathurst-1000-official-program?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\/2025-repco-bathurst-1000-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, he will look to secure his fifth career Cup Series win, which would be a record for a rookie driver in the Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>SVG currently shares the benchmark with Jimmie Johnson (2002) and Tony Stewart (1999).<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s short 20-minute-long practice session, van Gisbergen registered the sixth fastest time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the Xfinity Series, van Gisbergen will also line up from the second position, after being topped by JR Motorsports teammate Connor Zilisch in qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in practice, he set only the eighth fastest time, although he was involved in a bizarre incident at the end of the session involving two other cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-43-scale-2022-adelaide-500-1-holden-commodore-zb-van-gisbergen-model-1?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\/07\/1_df7585c6-44cd-4e10-ba24-0b23eea1b69c_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, he is shooting for the fifth win of his Xfinity Series career to date.<\/p>\n<p>The Xfinity Series race is scheduled for a 5am AEST start, with the Cup Series race slated for a 4am Monday green flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen will start from the front row of both the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series races&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56455,"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-56454","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\/56454","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=56454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}