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<\/p>\nAfter weeks of radio dramas, van Gisbergen enjoyed a race without any communication issues.<\/p>\n
SVG had very few complaints throughout the race en route to ninth.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first time van Gisbergen has finished inside the top 10 on an oval since North Wilkesboro in July.<\/p>\n
Van Gisbergen qualified his Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet Camaro in 25th and steadily progressed throughout the race.<\/p>\n
He finished Stage 1 in 15th and Stage 2 in 13th before a measured drive to the chequered flag in Stage 3.<\/p>\n
Van Gisbergen was the top-finishing non-Chase driver.<\/p>\n
\u201cAwesome job team, well done,\u201d van Gisbergen radioed to his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cCar was really good. Pit stops good. Thanks again.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen during the NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n
The race was won by Joe Gibbs Racing driver Chase Briscoe, who won both stages.<\/p>\n
Briscoe controlled the lion\u2019s share of the 267-lap race, leading 175 laps. However, it was anything but smooth sailing when it boiled down to the final few laps.<\/p>\n
Hendrick Motorsports\u2019 Kyle Larson surged late and threatened to take the lead in the dying laps.<\/p>\n
Coming out of the final turn, Larson got loose and slapped the wall. That left 23XI Racing\u2019s Tyler Reddick with nowhere to go and drove into the back of the preceding Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n
Reddick went sliding through the grass, taking the chequered flag in third behind Briscoe and Larson.<\/p>\n
For runner-up Larson, it was a fitting finish in the Chevrolet Camaro carrying a Kyle Busch tribute scheme.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust was trying to push hard through [Turns] 3 and 4 to just build some momentum at him to, I don\u2019t know, try to get by down the straightaway,\u201d said Larson.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust got really loose and overcorrected in the wall. Thankfully I was able to limp it home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThankfully Reddick was able to come away third as well. That got exciting. I wish we could have won in this paint scheme and honouring Kyle, and that would be very Kyle Busch fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the top three finish, Reddick took few positives out of the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, at this point it\u2019s pretty much normal to have issues all day long for us on this team,\u201d said the 23XI Racing driver.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just what we\u2019re used to. So we know what to do. We know how to fight through it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took us a little bit longer than we wanted to to get back to the front, but once we did, I thought we were in a pretty good spot there.<\/p>\n
\u201cSettled into I think it was fourth or fifth. Unfortunately, we just had a slow stop, we lost time in that cycle, and the #5 and the #24 (William Byron) got in front of us.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, it probably played a part in just coming up a little short today, but yeah, I had to fight through the issues and, I mean, be able to hang onto it and still cross the line and hold onto third off the final corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe fought through everything that we had really well today. It was hot. That was for sure. Yeah, we powered through it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gained five points. Whoop-de-doo. We have to capitalise when we have Toyota Camrys as fast as this.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to win those races. The key to that is being clean and executing. We just haven\u2019t done that in a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Team Penske\u2019s Austin Cindric and Ryan Blaney were fourth and fifth respectively. Hendrick duo William Byron and Chase Elliott followed in sixth and seventh while the top 10 was completed by Bubba Wallace (23XI Racing), van Gisbergen and Joey Logano (Team Penske).<\/p>\n
Wallace was vying for the win inside the final 10 laps but suffered a sudden speed drop-off and plummeted from second to eighth by the race\u2019s end.<\/p>\n
Joe Gibbs Racing locked out the top four for the start of the race, led by Denny Hamlin. He led the bulk of Stage 1 until a divergence in strategy saw him drop back to ninth after pitting.<\/p>\n
Hamlin hauled his way through to fourth only to spin with just three laps remaining in Stage 1, which damaged the front splitter. He went on to finish 16th.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess there were marbles up there. Just trying to get back the track position that we lost and just went up there and got in the marbles and spun out,\u201d said Hamlin.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously damaged the car where it was nothing like it was before.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing you can do now post-race. You\u2019ve just got to go on to the next race if you can find a way to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharlotte will be good for us. Today certainly didn\u2019t live up to what we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty Gibbs, who started second, finished 17th after a speeding penalty was compounded by handling issues.<\/p>\n
Third place starter Christopher Bell was 23rd after losing power steering.<\/p>\n
Briscoe, who started fourth, was the only Joe Gibbs Racing driver to stay out of trouble.<\/p>\n
Larson, who started sixth behind Reddick, went a lap down in the opening stanza after a lengthy set-up change.<\/p>\n
However, Larson got his lap back as the Lucky Dog when the caution came out on Lap 44 as Zane Smith suffered a right rear puncture and spun his Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a fight,\u201d said Larson.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised how far off we were that first run. I was just doing all I could to hang on and get to the pit stop. (Crew chief Cliff Daniels) said it was going to be a lengthy adjustment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know it was going to be that long. Yeah, we came out a lap down. I think thankfully that caution came out and we were able to do the wave. I think that really saved us from just being stuck a lap down a lot longer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy car got better, but track position was so difficult. Yeah, just kind of chipped away at it all race long. Had a good green flag pit cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NASCAR Cup Series returns on October 12 at Charlotte Motor Speedway with the Bank of America 400.<\/p>\n
Results: NASCAR Cup Series Southern Point 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway<\/p>\n
Pos
\nNum
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nCar
\nLaps\/Diff
\nGap<\/p>\n
1
\n19
\nChase Briscoe (C)
\nJoe Gibbs Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n267 laps<\/p>\n
2
\n5
\nKyle Larson (C)
\nHendrick Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n1.376
\n1.376<\/p>\n
3
\n45
\nTyler Reddick (C)
\n23XI Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n3.292
\n1.916<\/p>\n
4
\n2
\nAustin Cindric (C)
\nTeam Penske
\nFord Mustang
\n4.896
\n1.604<\/p>\n
5
\n12
\nRyan Blaney (C)
\nTeam Penske
\nFord Mustang
\n5.223
\n0.327<\/p>\n
6
\n24
\nWilliam Byron (C)
\nHendrick Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n5.253
\n0.030<\/p>\n
7
\n9
\nChase Elliott (C)
\nHendrick Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n11.064
\n5.811<\/p>\n
8
\n23
\nBubba Wallace (C)
\n23XI Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n11.422
\n0.358<\/p>\n
9
\n97
\nShane Van Gisbergen
\nTrackhouse Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n13.277
\n1.855<\/p>\n
10
\n22
\nJoey Logano (C)
\nTeam Penske
\nFord Mustang
\n13.395
\n0.118<\/p>\n
11
\n48
\nAlex Bowman
\nHendrick Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n14.461
\n1.066<\/p>\n
12
\n77
\nCarson Hocevar (C)
\nSpire Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n14.671
\n0.210<\/p>\n
13
\n17
\nChris Buescher (C)
\nRFK Racing
\nFord Mustang
\n19.614
\n4.943<\/p>\n
14
\n7
\nDaniel Suarez (C)
\nSpire Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n20.840
\n1.226<\/p>\n
15
\n16
\nAJ Allmendinger
\nKaulig Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n21.978
\n1.138<\/p>\n
16
\n11
\nDenny Hamlin (C)
\nJoe Gibbs Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n22.076
\n0.098<\/p>\n
17
\n54
\nTy Gibbs (C)
\nJoe Gibbs Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n23.201
\n1.125<\/p>\n
18
\n35
\nRiley Herbst
\n23XI Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n24.554
\n1.353<\/p>\n
19
\n3
\nAustin Dillon
\nRichard Childress Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n25.717
\n1.163<\/p>\n
20
\n4
\nNoah Gragson
\nFront Row Motorsports
\nFord Mustang
\n27.308
\n1.591<\/p>\n
21
\n71
\nMichael McDowell
\nSpire Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n30.582
\n3.274<\/p>\n
22
\n33
\nAustin Hill
\nRichard Childress Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
23
\n20
\nChristopher Bell (C)
\nJoe Gibbs Racing
\nToyota Camry
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
24
\n6
\nBrad Keselowski
\nRFK Racing
\nFord Mustang
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
25
\n43
\nErik Jones
\nLegacy Motor Club
\nToyota Camry
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
26
\n21
\nJosh Berry
\nWood Brothers Racing
\nFord Mustang
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
27
\n41
\nCole Custer
\nHaas Factory Team
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
28
\n60
\nRyan Preece (C)
\nRFK Racing
\nFord Mustang
\n2 laps
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
29
\n42
\nJohn Hunter Nemechek
\nLegacy Motor Club
\nToyota Camry
\n2 laps<\/p>\n
30
\n1
\nRoss Chastain
\nTrackhouse Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n2 laps<\/p>\n
31
\n10
\nTy Dillon
\nKaulig Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n2 laps<\/p>\n
32
\n47
\nRicky Stenhouse Jr.
\nHyak Motorsports
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n3 laps
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
33
\n34
\nTodd Gilliland
\nFront Row Motorsports
\nFord Mustang
\n3 laps<\/p>\n
34
\n51
\nCody Ware
\nRick Ware Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n4 laps
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
35
\n88
\nConnor Zilisch
\nTrackhouse Racing
\nChevrolet Camaro
\n5 laps
\n1 lap<\/p>\n
36
\n38
\nZane Smith
\nFront Row Motorsports
\nFord Mustang
\n5 laps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of radio dramas, van Gisbergen enjoyed a race without any communication issues. SVG had very few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,9909,12357,85],"class_list":["post-916523","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-shane-van-gisbergen","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916523","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=916523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}