{"id":153408,"date":"2025-09-13T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153408\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:46:33","slug":"van-gisbergen-aims-to-have-proper-crack-at-playoff-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153408\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gisbergen aims to have ‘proper crack’ at playoff advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even if Shane Van Gisbergen<\/a> gets eliminated from the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs<\/a> after the Bristol Night Race, this is still an incredibly successful Rookie of the Year campaign in which he has already won four times on road courses while making steady progress on ovals.<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how the three-time Supercars champion looks at his season in advance of the first cut-off race where he needs to make up 15 points by the end of the race<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s been awesome, yeah,\u201d Van Gisbergen said of his season. \u201cTo win the races we have, and show the improvement we have the past few months because we started well below average and steadily progressed, yeah.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud of that. We didn\u2019t expect to set the world on fire on ovals but we\u2019ve done a good job the last little while of getting me faster and better.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that was kind of the plan for Trackhouse Racing all along.<\/p>\n

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Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet<\/p>\n

Photo by: Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The hope was that \u2018SVG\u2019 could at least win one race, and thus make the playoffs, and therefore put the No. 88 charter inside the top-16 in points for economic reasons. From there, Van Gisbergen would just need to work on improving on ovals, something he had not done until last year in the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n

Instead, SVG has won four times, and is starting to race consistently inside the top-20 on ovals after being consistently outside of the top-30 in the first half of the year. That progress gives Van Gisbergen optimism that things could break right for him to make the Round of 12, which contains the Charlotte Roval.<\/p>\n

He’s in this position because strategic decisions trapped him a lap down at Darlington and he simply didn’t speed at Gateway.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be an uphill battle for sure,\u201d Van Gisbergen said. \u201cYeah. I feel real positive about it and more positive than the first couple of months. We certainly haven\u2019t given up on getting through and we\u2019re going to have a proper crack at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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