van Gisbergen shifting to his beloved #97<\/a> \u2013 which he used for 344 of his 511 Supercars Championship races.<\/p>\n\u201c@svg97 \u2013 I remember meeting you in Chicago (2023) before you won your first race in your first Cup start,\u201d Busch wrote via social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could sense that you would be great.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also asked where the origin of the #97 came from. You said family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so proud that the #97 is back in @nascar \u2013 make it great again!\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Gisbergen took five race wins in his first full Cup Series campaign \u2013 one each at Mexico City, Chicago, Sonoma, Watkins Glen and Charlotte \u2013 to wind up 12th in the end-of-year standings.<\/p>\n
The Undercut \u2013 It\u2019s Finals Time!<\/p>\n
Breaking down the latest in the world of Supercars \u2013 Gold Coast, Sandown and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KURT Busch has expressed his delight at seeing the number he won the NASCAR Cup Series championship with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-273268","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\/273268","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=273268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}