{"id":429346,"date":"2026-05-15T18:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:26:26","slug":"nascar-news-shane-van-gisbergen-scores-charlotte-truck-series-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429346\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR news: Shane van Gisbergen scores Charlotte Truck Series start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/629340731_18559435765017655_5777952283518034478_n.jpg\" alt=\"Van Gisbergen scores Charlotte Truck Series start\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShane van Gisbergen. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi has been confirmed to drive Spire Motorsports\u2019 #71 Chevrolet Silverado with backing from NationsGuard.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll mark SVG\u2019s third Truck Series start and his second this month following an outing with Niece Motorsports at Watkins Glen.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gisbergen debuted in the Truck Series with Niece back in 2023 at the pint-sized Indianapolis Raceway Park.<\/p>\n<p>He recently declared a desire to add more oval Truck races to his schedule in a bid to improve his craft.<\/p>\n<p>Spire\u2019s #71 Silverado is a part-time entry that was driven at The Glen by van Gisbergen\u2019s Trackhouse teammate Connor Zilisch.<\/p>\n<p>The 200-mile Charlotte Truck race will be held on May 22 in the lead-up to the longest race on the Cup Series schedule, the Coca-Cola 600.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Get the latest NASCAR news, stats, and US racing coverage at <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/us\/tag\/nascar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speedcafe US<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/250635\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen. Image: Supplied The Kiwi has been confirmed to drive Spire Motorsports\u2019 #71 Chevrolet Silverado with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,1057,213],"class_list":["post-429346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shane-van-gisbergen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}