{"id":184657,"date":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184657\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:26:12","slug":"kevin-harvick-reacts-to-shane-van-gisbergen-earning-first-top-10-oval-finish-in-nascar-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184657\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick reacts to Shane van Gisbergen earning first top 10 oval finish in NASCAR career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane van Gisbergen has mastered road courses in the NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series. Slowly but surely, he\u2019s starting to figure it out on ovals. <\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen finished 10th in this past Sunday\u2019s race at Kansas Speedway. It was his first top 10 finish on an oval in his rookie season in Cup. Earlier in the season, van Gisbergen could hardly buy a top 20 finish on an oval. His improvement over the course of 2025 has been fun to watch, Kevin Harvick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep talking about his oval racing and how much better that it is getting and the gains that they are making,\u201d Harvick said on Tuesday\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a> podcast. \u201cI think this was one of those weekends that really showed how much better he has become at racing on ovals. I think that improvement is fun to watch. We\u2019ve talked on here a lot just about his maturity level and his knowledge to be able to look through the data and critique himself, and you have to be able to critique yourself, and you have to be able to take criticism. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut you have to be able to learn how to apply it, and I think his racing IQ is high, and I think he\u2019ll continue to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen is getting better on NASCAR ovals<\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen made the playoffs this season after winning four races \u2014 all on road courses. With the Charlotte ROVAL serving as the Round of 12 finale, the opportunity was there for van Gisbergen to advance as far as the Round of 8 if he could find a way to get out of the Round of 16. <\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t work out for the New Zealand native at three tough racetracks, Darlington Raceway, Gateway, and Bristol Motor Speedway. Despite that disappointment, van Gisbergen is \u201cover the moon\u201d about the result at Kansas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really cool to get a top 10 finish at Kansas Speedway,\u201d he said after the race. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re getting better and better at these tracks. It was difficult starting a lap down and having that penalty, but [interim crew chief] Chais Eliason did a great job. We had really good speed at points of the race, so I\u2019m stoked to get a top 10. I\u2019m over the moon with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen has mastered road courses in the NASCAR Cup Series. Slowly but surely, he\u2019s starting to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-184657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}