{"id":76797,"date":"2025-08-18T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76797\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:38:14","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-ditching-computer-simulator-for-video-and-data-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76797\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen ditching computer simulator for video and data analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHANE van Gisbergen has noted that he is relying less on the simulator as a training tool, as he continues to learn oval tracks in the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n

Within NASCAR\u2019s top tier, drivers have access to a wide range of preparation options.<\/p>\n

Outside of highly realistic simulators, drivers can also access an assortment of historical onboard footage, plus telemetric data from any driver in the field, thanks to the SMT data package that is freely available across the paddock.<\/p>\n

While the field closely scrutinises SVG\u2019s data on road courses, including inputs such as throttle, brakes and steering, the reverse is true on the ovals.<\/p>\n

Coming into yesterday\u2019s Richmond race, where he placed 14th<\/a>, the three-time Supercars champion uncovered how his learning process had evolved, having now started in 27 Cup Series weekends to date in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try and study as many drivers as I can,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday, I had the race on; watched last year\u2019s practice, qualifying and race, and then had SMT up at the same time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s probably what I get more out of, I find myself sort of doing less and less sim and more video stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find that sort of helps me more these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During the Richmond race, van Gisbergen was notable in using a much higher line in the corners than many other drivers.<\/p>\n

Coming into the weekend, SVG recognised two drivers in particular were in his focus \u2013 namely Denny Hamlin and his Trackhouse Racing stablemate Ross Chastain, with limited practice time curtailling any genuine opportunity to dial into the track pre-race.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just time for me, and even this week, like I\u2019ve never been around this track in a Cup car,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see the fall-off in practice; it\u2019s very tough to get up to speed straight away, so this week, I\u2019ve kind of been studying Denny (Hamlin) and Ross (Chastain) the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoss\u2019s car\u2019s probably most similar to how mine\u2019s going to be, so I\u2019m trying to just see what they were doing with gears.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can change gears a lot here, and it changes the car balance quite a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, on different tracks, it might be different people who stand out, and I just try and emulate what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for me, it\u2019s just time\u2026 I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like when I\u2019m out there, and no one knows what the patches are going to feel like at Turn One.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hamlin is observed within the paddock as having a radically different technique from other drivers, something which has come to the attention of van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis style\u2019s very unique, the way he\u2019s mainly using a different gear and stabbing at the throttle, and it\u2019s just techniques I\u2019ve never come across or needed to use before,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in NASCAR, there are so many different ways to get the car around the track fast, and I\u2019m trying to be as open-minded as possible in changing my style, especially for a track I\u2019ve never been to before.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these top guys have such subtle little differences in the way they drive, and it\u2019s really interesting trying to pick things up because I\u2019m sort of like a clean sheet of paper with oval driving, so trying to find a style that works for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

This weekend, the regular season for the NASCAR Cup Series rounds out with a wildcard race at Daytona International Speedway, with 14 of the 16 playoff slots accounted for by drivers who have already won this season.<\/p>\n

With a left-field winner always a possibility on superspeedways, currently in on points are Tyler Reddick and Alex Bowman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen has noted that he is relying less on the simulator as a training tool, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76798,"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-76797","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\/76797","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=76797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}