Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989), also known by his initials SVG, is a New Zealand professional

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driver. He competes full-time in the

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, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet ZL1 for

Trackhouse Racing Trackhouse Racing is an American motorsports organization that competes full time in the NASCAR Cup Series and MotoGP and part time in the IMSA SportsCar Championship. History After Leavine Family Racing announced the sale of its assets in su ...

and part-time in the

NASCAR Xfinity Series The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level NASCAR Cup Series, Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a Undercard, support ...

, driving the No. 9

Chevrolet SS The Holden Commodore (VF) is a full-size car that was produced by Holden between June 2013 and October 2017. It was the second and last significantly restyled iteration of the fourth (and final) generation of the Holden Commodore to be manufac ...

for

JR Motorsports JR Motorsports (pronounced "Junior Motorsports") is an American professional stock car racing team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kelley Earnhardt Miller, L. W. Miller, L.W. Miller, and Rick Hendrick. It c ...

. He is known for his time racing in the

Supercars Championship The Supercars Championship, also known as the Repco Supercars Championship under sponsorship and historically as V8 Supercars, is a touring car racing category in Australia and New Zealand, running as an International Series under Fédération I ...

, last driving the No. 97

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car for

Triple Eight Race Engineering Triple Eight Race Engineering, branded as Red Bull Ampol Racing in Supercars, is an Australian motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship. The team has been the only Brisbane-based V8 Supercar team since its formation, originall ...

. He is a three-time Supercars Champion, winning driver's titles in

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, and

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. With a total of 80 wins and 46 pole positions, van Gisbergen is 4th on the all-time wins list in the

. He has won the

Bathurst 1000 The Bathurst 1000 (known for sponsorship reasons as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a Touring car racing, touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supe ...

three times, in

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, and

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. Van Gisbergen also races in

GT Racing Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing that uses sports cars with two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be either purpose-built sports prototypes, which are the highest level in sports car racing; or grand tourers (GT cars) ba ...

, winning the

2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour The 2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour was an endurance race for a variety of GT and touring car classes, including: GT3 cars, GT4 cars and Group 3E Series Production Cars. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathu ...

alongside Alvaro Parente and

Jonathon Webb Jonathon Stephen Webb (born 10 December 1983) is an Australian former professional racing driver and team owner of Team Sydney, who once co-drove alongside Fabian Coulthard in the No. 19 Holden ZB Commodore for the Pirtek Enduro Cup. In 2016, ...

in the

McLaren 650S GT3 The McLaren 650S is a British sports car designed and manufactured by British automobile manufacturer McLaren Automotive. It was announced in February 2014 as a new model, but based on the existing MP4-12C with 25% new parts, and was formally u ...

, winning the

2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup The 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup was the sixth season of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The season started on 24 April at Monza and ended on 18 September at the Nürburgring. The season featured five rounds, with each race lastin ...

, finishing 3rd overall in the

2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge The 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the first season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season featured three rounds — after the cancellation of the 6 Hours of the Americas - starting with Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 7 F ...

and finishing in second place in the

2015 24 Hours of Daytona The 53rd Rolex 24 at Daytona was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida from 22–25 January 2015. The 53rd running of the 24 Hours of Daytona was also the first race for the 2 ...

in the GTD class. He won in his

debut at the

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in Chicago driving the No. 91 for

, becoming the first driver to win in their NASCAR Cup Series debut since

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driver

Johnny Rutherford John Sherman Rutherford III (born March 12, 1938), also known as "Lone Star JR", is an American former automobile racing driver. During an Indy Car career that spanned more than three decades, he scored 27 wins and 23 pole positions in 314 start ...

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, becoming only the seventh to do so in series history and the first driver to do it in the modern era of the sport. He also became the first New Zealander to win a race in the Cup Series. He and Paul Morris are the only drivers to have won all three major car racing events at Mount Panorama: the

Bathurst 6 Hour The Bathurst 6 Hour, currently known as the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an annual race for Group 3E Series Production Cars and other invited cars that was first held in 2016. The race is held on Easter Sunday, with p ...

and

Bathurst 12 Hour The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an annual endurance race for Group GT3, GT and Production car racing, production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, New South ...

New Zealand racing history

After competing in

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, Quarter Midgets and

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from 1998 to 2004, van Gisbergen placed third in the 2004/2005 New Zealand Formula First Championship and won the associated Rookie of the Year award.Current CV at www.shanevangisbergen.com
Retrieved on 15 October 2010 Van Gisbergen had previously obtained a Speedsport Star of Tomorrow Scholarship. A win in 2005/06

New Zealand Formula Ford Championship The New Zealand Formula Ford Championship (known for commercial reasons as the NAPA Auto Parts New Zealand Formula Ford Championship) has been held annually in New Zealand racing circuits. History Formula Ford emerged as a racing class in New ...

was accompanied by another Rookie of the Year title and was followed by a second-place finish in 2006/07

Toyota Racing Series The Formula Regional Oceania Championship is New Zealand's premier formula racing category. The series includes races for every major trophy in New Zealand circuit racing including the New Zealand Motor Cup and the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy. ...

. In 2014, van Gisbergen co-drove to the BNT NZ Supertourers Hankook Super Series championship with primary driver Simon Evans. Shane won 7 of the 9 races in a total of the Endurance rounds including sweeping the entire Fuchs 500 weekend at

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with winning race #3 in spectacular fashion driving from 1 lap down. In 2021, van Gisbergen won the

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held as part of the

. The event is normally held for a global field, however, was restricted to a New Zealand-only field due to the

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, with van Gisbergen entering as a wildcard. Van Gisbergen ran a

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in the South Island Endurance Series at

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in 2023, with co-driver and car owner Dwayne Carter. However, a right rear wheel came off on lap 2 and the car was sidelined for 87 laps in total at the end of the event, after Carter ran over 30 laps with no problems before retiring it from the race later on. Van Gisbergen turned no laps in the 3-hour race.

Supercars championship

Driving for

Team Kiwi Racing Team Kiwi Racing is a multi-championship winning racing team that is based in New Zealand and has competed in the Australian V8 Supercar series, the Australian Carrera Cup Series, The New Zealand 2.0ltr Touring Car Championship, The NZV8 Champion ...

, van Gisbergen became the 200th driver to start a race in a V8 Supercar at the Jim Beam 400 at

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in Round 8 of 2007. Having impressed in his 2007 races, van Gisbergen was picked up by

Stone Brothers Racing Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) was an Australian motor racing team that competed in the International V8 Supercars Championship between 1998 and 2012. The team was formed in 1998 when Ross and Jim Stone bought Alan Jones (racing driver), Alan J ...

in 2008. He continued with the team for five seasons until 2012, securing a best of fourth in the championship in 2011. In late 2012, he announced he would be leaving V8 Supercars but in January it emerged that he was moving to

Tekno Autosports Tekno Autosports was an Australian motor racing team, established in the 1990s initially for the motor racing activities of Stephen Webb, and later his son Jonathon Webb. The team competed in the Supercars Championship using two Holden ZB Commo ...

at the start of the 2013 season. Van Gisbergen faced legal action for breaking his contract with Stone Brothers Racing. The move to Tekno proved fruitful, with van Gisbergen finishing runner-up in the championship in 2014. Van Gisbergen has also shown a strong pace at the series' most famous race, the

. He was in the lead in the

2009 Bathurst 1000 The 2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor race for V8 Supercars. It was the thirteenth running of the Australian 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It is the 52nd race tr ...

until pitting on lap 108 when his car would not start, resulting in a 1:14 pit stop and losing him a number of positions in the race. A near-identical issue repeated itself in the 2014 edition, where with 10 laps to go – he stalled and the starter motor failed, costing him almost a certain victory and he finished 16th. Van Gisbergen had started the 2014 race from pole position, his first at the event. Van Gisbergen Whincup 2016 Sydney SuperSprint Race 18

Van Gisbergen Whincup 2016 Sydney SuperSprint Race 18

In 2016, van Gisbergen moved to the

team, alongside two of the most successful drivers in series history;

Jamie Whincup Jamie David Whincup (born 6 February 1983) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently is team principal for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He has driven the No. 88 Holden Commodore (ZB), Ho ...

and

Craig Lowndes Craig Andrew Lowndes (born 21 June 1974) is an Australian racing car driver in the Supercars Championship, Repco Supercars Championship racing for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He is also a TV commentator. Lowndes is a three-time V8 Superca ...

. Van Gisbergen won his first race for the team at the

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in 2016.

Alexandre Prémat Alexandre Prémat (born 5 November 1982) is a French racing driver. He won the Pirtek Enduro Cup for Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Shane van Gisbergen in 2016. He also won the 2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 with Scott McLaughlin (r ...

joined van Gisbergen as co-driver in the Enduro Cup. The pair won the 2016 Enduro Cup, including three second-place finishes and Prémat's first race victory in the championship at the

2016 Castrol Gold Coast 600 The 2016 Castrol Gold Coast 600 was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 21 to 23 October 2016. The event was held at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, and consisted of two races of 300 k ...

, and became the first non-Australian drivers combination to win. At Pukekohe, van Gisbergen became the first New Zealander to lift the trophy, named in honour of

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, who died of cancer in 2011. He went on to win eight races that season and won the championship. Shane van Gisbergen at Sydney Motorsport Park

In 2017, Whincup and van Gisbergen paired up again under the Red Bull Holden Racing Team banner. At

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, he started his title defence with a double-victory, but finished 4th in the championship. Van Gisbergen 2018 Sydney SuperNight 300

In 2018, van Gisbergen won both Race 1 and Race 2 at Adelaide, driving a

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. At

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, van Gisbergen won at race 18 after Whincup marked the 10th running at race 17. On 4 August, van Gisbergen won the Sydney SuperNight 300 after a

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was called in. At

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, van Gisbergen dominated the inaugural race at

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, taking a near lights-to-flag win in Race 22. On 16 September, at Sandown, van Gisbergen finished 2nd alongside

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. Van Gisbergen controversially escaped a penalty for spinning his wheels during a pit stop at the Auckland SuperSprint at Pukekohe. Van Gisbergen 2021 Mount Panorama 500 Practice 2

Van Gisbergen 2021 Mount Panorama 500 Practice 2

At Newcastle in 2018, van Gisbergen was handed a 25-second post-race penalty following an investigation into a refueling breach at his third pitstop. Scott McLaughlin was declared the winner of the race. Van Gisbergen finished second at race 31 and in the points standings. In 2022, he won the

with

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in what would be the final race for Holden after the manufacturer was closed by GM. He won his third Bathurst 1000 with

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a year later, driving for

GT racing

Through his connections with Tekno Autosports sponsor Tony Quinn, van Gisbergen's first foray into GT racing was a guest co-drive in Quinn's team. Rubis Smollen Van Gisbergen M4 2021 B6HR

Rubis Smollen Van Gisbergen M4 2021 B6HR

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he entered the Blancpain Endurance Series in a

run by Von Ryan Racing. Racing in conjunction with his V8 Supercars commitments, he was forced to miss one round due to a date clash, however achieved two victories in the four races he entered. The team was dissolved after the 2015 season, and for the 2016 season, van Gisbergen moved to McLaren's new Garage 59 team. He will once again miss the final round of the championship at the

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due to the

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V8 Supercar race being held on the same weekend. Van Gisbergen won the 2016 season with

Côme Ledogar Côme Norbert Ledogar (born 23 May 1991) is a professional racing driver from France. He is best known for winning the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup overall title in 2016, with Robert Bell and Shane van Gisbergen, and for winning the 2021 24 ...

and

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having won the 3 Hours of Monza and the 1000 km Paul Ricard despite skipping the last round at the

due to a clash with his Supercars Championship commitments. Through his McLaren and Tekno Autosports connections, he drove one of Tekno's factory-supported McLaren 650S GT3s at the 2016 Bathurst 12 Hour. In qualifying on Saturday, van Gisbergen set the fastest ever officially recorded lap of the

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to achieve pole position. He went on to set the fastest ever race lap on the way to securing victory alongside

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and

NASCAR

2023

On 18 May 2023, it was announced that van Gisbergen would make his debut in the

driving the No. 91

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for

and its Project 91 programme at the inaugural event at the

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. During qualifying for the race, he earned the 3rd spot in the starting grid. Van Gisbergen was shuffled back to midpack after a pileup the lap before the completion of the second stage. Van Gisbergen took the lead on lap 71 from Justin Haley, and maintained it until

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collided with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on Lap 73 and sent the race into

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. Van Gisbergen won the race, becoming the seventh driver and the first driver in the modern era of NASCAR, and the first driver since

driver

60 years prior in 1963, to win in his Cup Series debut race, and also becoming the first New Zealander to win in the Cup Series, and only the sixth driver born outside the US to win a Cup Series race. He also was the first "

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" to win a Cup Series race since Indy car driver

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in 1973. Until his second career start, van Gisbergen was also one of only two drivers to have a perfect winning record in NASCAR, briefly joining

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in that accomplishment. On 19 July 2023, Trackhouse Racing announced van Gisbergen would make his second start of the 2023 season at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Van Gisbergen scored his 2nd Top 10 finish in the one-caution race, the first to start a NASCAR Cup career with two Top 10s in their first two starts since

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in 1978. On 2 August 2023, it was announced that van Gisbergen would make both his

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and NASCAR oval debut, racing in the

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on 11 August, driving the No. 41 for

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. He qualified 28th and finished 19th. On 14 September 2023, Trackhouse announced that van Gisbergen would drive part-time all three of NASCAR's national series in 2024 as part of a development deal with the team.

2024

On 13 December 2023,

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announced that van Gisbergen would compete full-time in the

driving the No. 97 car. Van Gisbergen also had to run the ARCA race at Daytona in order to receive approval to compete at superspeedway events in NASCAR. On 2 January 2024, it was announced that van Gisbergen would be competing for

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in the race. On 31 January, he signed with KHI Management. Van Gisbergen started the season with a 12th-place finish at

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. He scored his first two Xfinity Series wins on back-to-back weeks at

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and Sonoma. After retiring at Iowa and scoring two top-20 finishes, the New Zealander took his third victory of the season on his return to

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. SVG would unfortunately be knocked out of the first round of the Xfinity Series playoffs. Van Gisbergen also ran some select Cup Series races during the 2024 season, this time with Kaulig Racing driving the No. 13 for only one race and the No. 16 for the rest of the races. During the 2024 Watkins Glen race, van Gisbergen led the field with one lap to go, looking for his second Cup win, however,

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took the lead after the exit of the "Bus Stop", he ultimately finished second after two failed overtake attempts prevented him from taking the lead. In his only race in the No. 13 at the

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, van Gisbergen would score his first career Cup Series pole while also leading 21 laps and finishing in 7th place. SVG ran 12 Cup Series races that year, scoring one top five and two top tens along with one pole with an average finish of 22.8.

2025

On 24 August 2024, it was announced that van Gisbergen will drive full-time in the Cup Series for Trackhouse Racing, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet in

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. van Gisbergen would start the 2025 season with a 33rd-place finish at the

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. He struggled throughout the regular season, scoring only one top-10 finish on the first 15 races. Despite his setbacks, van Gisbergen scored a win and a playoff spot at

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. On 10 January 2025, it was announced that van Gisbergen would drive part-time in the Xfinity Series in the No. 9 for

Motorsports career results

Complete New Zealand Grand Prix results

Touring Cars

Supercars Championship results

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Complete V8 SuperTourer results

Sports/GT Cars

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Complete Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup results

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results

Complete Spa 24 Hours results

Complete Intercontinental GT Challenge Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete 12 Hours of Sebring results

Complete Asian Le Mans Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Rally

World Rally Championship results

World Rally Championship-2 results

NASCAR

( key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Cup Series

=Daytona 500

Xfinity Series

Craftsman Truck Series

Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points

ARCA Menards Series

( key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

References

External links

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Official profile at Trackhouse Racing
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