{"id":309428,"date":"2025-11-27T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309428\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:38:08","slug":"nascar-champion-has-high-profile-ally-ahead-of-debut-on-foreign-soil-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309428\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR champion has high-profile ally ahead of debut on foreign soil &#8211; Motorsport &#8211; Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off his NASCAR breakthrough, 20-year-old Richard Childress Driver Jesse Love is taking his talents to the land down under on the Supercars circuit for Image Racing in part of a sponsorship swap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jesse Love chokes back tears during emotional tribute to NASCAR crew chief\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/189586\/jesse-love-nascar-xfinity-Danny-Stockman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 Xfinity Series champion<\/a> has a pair of famous Supercars legends he has been able to call on for support: 2025 champion Broc Feeney and circuit legend-turned-NASCAR star <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Shane van Gisbergen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/shane-van-gisbergen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Van Gisbergen moved to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"NASCAR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> a few years ago and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Shane van Gisbergen shows true colors after record-breaking NASCAR rookie season\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/motorsport\/189565\/shane-van-gisbergen-trackhouse-nascar-rookie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has since emerged as one of the most dominant road course drivers of all time<\/a>. Both he and Feeney, who reached out to Love directly, are helping to newest Supercars driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Broc since about halfway through last year, just watching him race and stuff like that,\u201d Love said in a recent interview with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/nascar-news-2025-adelaide-grand-final-jess-love-advice-broc-feeney-supercars-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Speedcafe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019ve looked up to him, and he\u2019s been a great help and a great guy. I felt like I needed some people like that when I came over here, to kind of just lend me a helping hand, I guess, with the small things,&#8221; he added, explaining how Feeney contacted him via Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, my pedals weren\u2019t quite spaced well enough for the size of my foot, so Broc was able to kind of help me on that. I wouldn\u2019t have picked up on that if he didn\u2019t tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love, who drives the No. 2 Chevrolet Camaro SS for RCR, was always a racing prodigy: he was the 201 ARCA Menards Series West champion in 2021 as a 16-year-old and the 2023 overall ARCA Menards Series winner in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He had two wins in 2023: the first and last of the season (the 2025 United Renalts 300 at Daytona, and the Xfinity Championship in Phoenix). Love&#8217;s win relegated Xfinity hotshot Connor Zilisch to a second-place finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feeney, 23, was the inaugural 2025 Sprint Car champion (Supercars split into three sub-circuits), winning five races in a row at one point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DON&#8217;T MISS:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Love said the Van Gisbergen has helped him too. \u201cA lot of the ways that I was, heel-toe shifting, there was two main things that I needed to fix, and SVG was able to kind of point that out for me,\u201d Love told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off his NASCAR breakthrough, 20-year-old Richard Childress Driver Jesse Love is taking his talents to the land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[138296,49,48,8993,2332,634,82,49537,138297],"class_list":{"0":"post-309428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-broc-feeney","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jesse-love","12":"tag-motorsport-section","13":"tag-nascar","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-supercars","16":"tag-supercars-debut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309428","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=309428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}