{"id":434072,"date":"2026-05-18T22:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:52:20","slug":"shane-van-gisbergens-first-v8-supercars-race-winner-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434072\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen\u2019s first V8 Supercars race winner up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis ex-Shane van Gisbergen Falcon is up for sale. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen\u2019s first of 80 Supercars Championship race victories came on New Zealand soil in 2011 at the short-lived Hamilton street circuit.<\/p>\n

The win was achieved aboard the third FG model Falcon built by SBR, dubbed FG03, that van Gisbergen debuted partway through the 2009 season.<\/p>\n

Victory in Hamilton in 2011 was followed up just three rounds later with another at Hidden Valley, after which SVG famously drifted a full victory lap back to the pits.<\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen raced this same car through to the end of the 2012 season, meaning it was also part of his awkward \u2018farewell\u2019 from Supercars at that year\u2019s Sydney 500.<\/p>\n

By that point it had already been sold to current owner Terry Wyhoon, who took delivery of it from SBR at the Homebush circuit in the aftermath of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cShane had hit the medical car on Saturday and didn\u2019t get off the line on Sunday,\u201d Wyhoon recalled to Speedcafe.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoss Stone came over to me afterwards and said, \u2018Terry, it even comes with a full tank of gas!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took the bonnet off it that all the other drivers had signed, Ross sent me a new one to put on it and we were away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Shane<\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen at the 2011 Hamilton 400. Image: Glenis Lindley<\/p>\n

Wyhoon\u2019s Image Racing subsequently campaigned the car in the lower tiers of Supercars racing, beginning with the Super2 Series.<\/p>\n

A decision was made midway through last year to return it to its 2011 Hamilton colours, replicated with the help of ex-SBR and now Dick Johnson Racing signwriter Scott Ruddock.<\/p>\n

The livery includes one-off signage worn at Hamilton in support of Christchurch following an earthquake that hit the city that year.<\/p>\n

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The car features Christchurch Appeal logos. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cScott gave us the file. It\u2019s not a copy of the file, it\u2019s the file,\u201d said Wyhoon of the livery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest of the car is as we purchased it. We never took an SP sticker off the inside of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The car also underwent a mechanical refresh and was driven by Wyhoon at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival earlier this year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been listed in the \u2018coming soon\u2019 section of classifieds website My105<\/a>, with full details of the auction to follow.<\/p>\n

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Inside the machine. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Interest in van Gisbergen\u2019s cars is at an all-time high amid a burgeoning NASCAR career that included a stunning win on the Watkins Glen road course earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Wyhoon raced NASCAR in Australia during the late 1990s and, with close connections in the US, has been enjoying SVG\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s getting there,\u201d he said of van Gisbergen\u2019s tricky transition to the largely oval-based category. \u201cHe\u2019s smart enough that he\u2019ll work it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The car is set for auction. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Wyhoon also owns the final Project Blueprint-era SBR Falcon, which is back in its 2012 Tim Slade colours and is also set to be put up for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image Racing is not competing in the Super2 Series this year while Wyhoon mentors his son, Ryan, who is racing in the TGRA Scholarship Series.<\/p>\n

One of Image Racing\u2019s ZB Commodores, though, is being leased by Apogee Motorsport for the Darwin round<\/a> and will be supported by Wyhoon at the event.<\/p>\n

Watch van Gisbergen\u2019s maiden Supercars race win at Hamilton in 2011 below<\/p>\n


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