{"id":764978,"date":"2026-06-28T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764978\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:26:14","slug":"nascar-oreilly-auto-parts-series-shane-van-gisbergen-wins-at-sonoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764978\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series: Shane van Gisbergen wins at Sonoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANE van Gisbergen has extended his glittering record at Sonoma Raceway with another win in the second-tier NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series.<\/p>\n<p>Back aboard the #9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet for the third time in 2026, van Gisbergen converted pole position into victory at the California road course.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-lap contest was dominated by van Gisbergen and his Trackhouse Cup teammate Connor Zilisch.<\/p>\n<p>SVG\u2019s margin hovered around four seconds in the closing stages but ended at just 1.324s, with best of the rest going to Brent Crews who won a hard-fought battle for third \u2013 albeit a further 13.913s adrift of Zilisch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2955-Jesse-Love\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Love<\/a>, who raced in Super2 last year at Adelaide, held third at one stage late in the piece before fading to ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 How hot is too hot?<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back for another week, downloading a hot weekend in the Top End for Supercars!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s van Gisbergen\u2019s second NOAPS race win this year, having also got the job done at Circuit of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi\u2019s Sonoma record in the NASCAR second-tier now reads three pole positions, two wins and a second place from three starts.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s Cup Series race will be the first time van Gisbergen doesn\u2019t start from pole at Sonoma; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/svg-pipped-for-pole-after-spin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he qualified sixth in a spin-affected session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Gibbs will be on pole for the 5:30am Monday AEST race start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen has extended his glittering record at Sonoma Raceway with another win in the second-tier NASCAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-764978","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\/764978","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=764978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}