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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Trackhouse Racing driver restarted fifth in a green-white-chequered finish but couldn\u2019t make headway from the outside of row three.<\/p>\n
He finished seventh and was then promoted to sixth after 23XI Racing\u2019s Bubba Wallace was given a post-race penalty for going below the yellow line and gaining an advantage.<\/p>\n
Sixth place matched van Gisbergen\u2019s best Atlanta result<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s awesome, but my brain is going crazy for what I could have done better,\u201d van Gisbergen told Motorsport.com\u2019s Matt Weaver post-race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was beside the #12 (Ryan Blaney) coming off four coming to the white [flag]. Pretty fun. It\u2019s awesome racing here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of my better tracks for some reason and for some reason I\u2019m always decent here \u2013 I\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what he could have done differently, van Gisbergen identified a few instances in which he could have been positioned for the finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely the restart. I thought I could have attached to the #45 (Tyler Reddick) better and he came up and gave me some advice after,\u201d van Gisbergen explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just critical to do that and I just missed it, so we probably could have got a better restart.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen off [Turn] 2 on the last lap, (Christopher) Bell really came hard. I don\u2019t know if I could have shot down below him or whatever. We touched a lot and that killed all my run.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the strong finish, van Gisbergen dropped one position in the drivers\u2019 championship to 15th. Austin Cindric\u2019s nine stage points put him one place ahead in 14th.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking that on the green-white, there\u2019s no one around me that I\u2019m racing for points,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally needed to consolidate where I was. That didn\u2019t change my approach but good to get a P6.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other positive to take away from Atlanta was the team\u2019s qualifying performance.<\/p>\n
To date, Trackhouse Racing has struggled to find one-lap pace. Teammate Ross Chastain led its efforts in the previous day\u2019s qualifying with the ninth-fastest time while SVG was 12th.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally we qualify in the thirties and race well here,\u201d said van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a nice surprise to qualify 12th and Ross was ninth. Some improved speed at these kinds of tracks, which is definitely promising.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NASCAR Cup Series continues at North Wilkesboro Speedway on July 20 for the Window World 250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen stands next to his Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet Camaro. The Trackhouse Racing driver restarted fifth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,1057,213],"class_list":["post-525917","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\/525917","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=525917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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