{"id":594696,"date":"2026-09-09T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594696\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:26:17","slug":"nascar-news-van-gisbergen-makes-call-on-days-of-thunder-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594696\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR news: Van Gisbergen makes call on Days of Thunder cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2627DG4194-copy.jpg\" class=\"sc-hero-img\" alt=\"Van Gisbergen makes call on Days of Thunder cameo\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShane van Gisbergen during the Cook-Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Image: HHP\/David Graham<\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway recently announced the long-awaited second NASCAR film instalment.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise will reprise his role as Cole Trickle while Hathaway will star as a race team owner and engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Several drivers were canvassed in the wake of the announcement, including van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah, I hate cameras,\u201d said SVG when asked if he wanted a staring role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther people can do that, but I\u2019ll watch it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruise made a cameo at the recent NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona shortly after the announcement was made.<\/p>\n<p>He attended the pre-race drivers\u2019 meeting where he spoke to the competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gisbergen used the opportunity to joke with his Trackhouse Racing teammate Connor Zilisch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got Connor good last week. Tom Cruise walked into the drivers\u2019 briefing and obviously the room stops, it\u2019s crazy, and I said to Connor, \u2018Who\u2019s that?\u2019, and he was wound up I didn\u2019t know who it was,\u201d van Gisbergen laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was pretty funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1044368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2292628137.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Cruise attended the NASCAR Cup Series drivers meeting before the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise attended the NASCAR Cup Series drivers meeting before the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona. Image: Chris Graythen\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Van Gisbergen said he didn\u2019t get to speak with Cruise, though his other teammate Ross Chastain did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty quick. Nothing in detail about anything. It was nice to meet him, he said the same,\u201d said Chastain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a literal movie star I\u2019m meeting, so I was statstruck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to whatever the plan is as they get back to the track to start filming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to watch it unfold from in the garage. You don\u2019t get to meet a movie star every day and I got to meet one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Days of Thunder 2\u2019 is set for a June release in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen during the Cook-Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Image: HHP\/David Graham Tom Cruise and Anne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69,1057],"class_list":["post-594696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shane-van-gisbergen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594696","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=594696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}