{"id":843922,"date":"2026-08-05T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:02:11","slug":"nascar-cup-series-shane-van-gisbergen-weighs-in-on-chase-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843922\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Series: Shane van Gisbergen weighs in on Chase chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SHANE van Gisbergen is relishing walking the playoffs tightrope as the NASCAR Cup Series edges towards its postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a rare week off, the Cup Series field returns to action this weekend at Iowa Speedway for what is the fourth-last event of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Van Gisbergen holds 15th in the standings, with the top 16 on points progressing to the Chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2400-Austin-Cindric\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Cindric<\/a> is currently on the bubble, 19 points back from SVG, with Ryan Preece first among those on the outside looking in at a further 38 points adrift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others sitting outside the top 16 include Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman and SVG\u2019s Trackhouse Racing teammates Ross Chastain and Connor Zilisch, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty awesome. To be honest, I was stoked after making those leaps above the cutline,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-64-scale-track-stars-2023-bathurst-1000-winner-97-van-gisbergen-stanaway-model?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TS64-GR26S1-C23-97BW-ProductImage.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s been great to get a lot of points on these ovals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a team we aren\u2019t exactly where we want to be. We want to make the most of the bad days and try and score as many points as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn our bad days we still have to be 15th to 20th and that\u2019s not a good day for points. you know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSometimes you have to suck those days up and accept it, even though you want to be better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are four races to go and our focus at the moment is points every week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-12-scale-2022-bathurst-1000-97-holden-commodore-zb-van-gisbergen-tander-model-1?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b18h22p-93_3_4ef86d7f-33cc-405e-802b-aa4f653fca89.jpg\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Van Gisbergen has taken confidence from last month placing sixth at Atlanta Motor Speedway and, in particular, fifth at North Wilkesboro Speedway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNorth Wilkesboro was a race that the metric helped us, but it also shows that if we can start up front, we can stay there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat really puts the focus on qualifying, I need to be better, and we need to make our cars better. It\u2019s just awesome to race at the front and keep ourselves there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt shows that everyone is executing and when it all comes together, we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANE van Gisbergen is relishing walking the playoffs tightrope as the NASCAR Cup Series edges towards its postseason.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-843922","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\/843922","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=843922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}