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The race in Northern California will be held in July for the first time.<\/p>\n
Already this season, van Gisbergen has won at Mexico and Chicago from the pole. He ranks second in the series in average finish (9.8) on road courses in the Next Gen era.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s so good, and it\u2019s rare that you see somebody stand out and distance himself from the competition as much as he is,\u201d Larson said about van Gisbergen. \u201cYou know, he\u2019s way, way, way better than us at the road course stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he\u2019s got his own technique, you can call it. Not his own because the rest of the world does it \u2013 you know, right-foot braking, clutching and all that stuff. You can\u2019t teach an old dog new tricks \u2026 like there\u2019s zero chance I can learn how to do that. And even if I did, like there\u2019s zero chance that I can have it be better than what I\u2019m probably doing with left-foot braking.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s up with Kyle Larson?<\/p>\n
The Hendrick Motorsports driver who won last year\u2019s race at Sonoma has not led in the last six races. It\u2019s the longest stretch he\u2019s gone in Cup without leading a lap since the end of the 2019 and beginning of the 2020 seasons when he also went six races without leading a lap.<\/p>\n
Larson has not had much success on road courses this season. He finished 13th at Chicago, placed 36th after his car was damaged in an early accident triggered by Kyle Busch at Mexico and was 32nd at Circuit of the Americas after being issued a two-lap penalty for a wheel coming off his car.<\/p>\n