{"id":59040,"date":"2025-08-11T03:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59040\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:13:11","slug":"svgs-special-family-ties-with-watkins-glen-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59040\/","title":{"rendered":"SVG\u2019s special family ties with Watkins Glen win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANE van Gisbergen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/van-gisbergen-claims-fourth-cup-win-for-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth victory of the NASCAR Cup Series season<\/a> has taken on special meaning, with his father Robert trackside for the first time this year to witness the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>RVG has been a fixture in the pits throughout his son\u2019s racing journey, with recent ill-health preventing him from travelling to North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to reflect and take in the moment a bit more,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was really special. Never had my dog in Victory Lane before, and my Dad as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hasn\u2019t been able to travel all year being sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have him here for the next three weeks and have a win with it, it\u2019s just really cool to have that moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty difficult \u2013 he lost his wife, my mother, and then his sister and then his mom a month or so ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a really rough run for Dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to support him when I\u2019m on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s probably why I\u2019m the most homesick.<\/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>\u201cThen my sister has moved away as well, so he\u2019s kind of by himself all of a sudden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to talk to him every day, and yeah, to have him here, and like he was almost in tears, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really special to share that, because we\u2019re a long way from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to have a good result with him the next couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s driving the bus for me with his friend Jason to those races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll probably drive to Daytona with them, and it\u2019ll be a good time like we used to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next week, the NASCAR Cup Series returns to oval track competition at Richmond Raceway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen\u2019s fourth victory of the NASCAR Cup Series season has taken on special meaning, with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59041,"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-59040","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\/59040","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=59040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}