Follow Shane van Gisbergen For two straight years, Shane van Gisbergen has finished best … Shane van Gisbergen and Fabian Coulthard quickest in mixed condition running as rain hits The Bend 3 weeks ago. Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. The Ford FG Falcon of van Gisbergen at the 2011 Clipsal 500 Adelaide. Supercars / Breaking news. All Blacks vs Australia: Did Rieko Ioane score a try, or not? Van Gisbergen may have made his name in circuit racing, reaching the pinnacle of Australasian motorsport as Supercars champion in 2016, but he’s no stranger to the rough stuff. "I do a lot of racing overseas but it's all to improve V8s, we only get two test days a year and we don't spend enough time in the car. Shane Van Gisbergen shares his special moment with his mother after securing the Supercars title in Sydney. Having impressed in his 2007 races, van Gisbergen was picked up by Stone Brothers Racing in 2008. Having impressed in previous outings, in 2015 he entered the Blancpain Endurance Series in a McLaren 650S GT3 run by Von Ryan Racing. 12. Van Gisbergen became the 200th driver to start a race in a V8 Supercar at the Jim Beam 400 at Oran Park Raceway in Round 8 of 2007. Get Alerts. Highlights from the Sydney 500 as Shane Van Gisbergen wins his first Supercars championship. With the win now McLaughlin. The move to Tekno proved fruitful, with van Gisbergen finishing runner-up in the championship in 2014. An emotional Shane van Gisbergen paid tribute to the sacrifices his parents had made to help him clinch the 2016 Supercars title on Saturday. 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 in the 2013 Australian GT Championship. Van Gisbergen, with Álvaro Parente and Jonathon Webb, also won the 2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour for Tekno Autosports. In fact, he was born into it. A teary eyed Shane van Gisbergen gives his father, Robert, a hug after winning the Supercars championship in Sydney. Shane Van Gisbergen was born to race. | Sitemap [5], Through his McLaren and Tekno Autosports connections, he drove one of Tekno's factory-supported McLaren 650S GT3s at the 2016 Bathurst 12 Hour. He currently drives the No. Fabian Coulthard That was always going to be the case after this weekend as the only person who could have stopped him from winning it was van Gisbergen's team-mate, Whincup. They're all at a pretty high level and V8s is definitely the best racing I've been a part of and I'll come back to try to defend it next year.". [1], After competing in Motocross, Quarter Midgets and karts 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. SVG97 Red Bull Racing Australia Supercars Mclaren GT Factory Driver Snapchat - svg97 Instagram - svg97 The Ford FG Falcon of van Gisbergen at the 2012 Clipsal 500 Adelaide. "Absolutely I'm happy for him, any championship is huge, especially your first one," Whincup said. [6] He went on to set the fastest ever race lap on the way to securing victory alongside Álvaro Parente and Jonathon Webb. Van Gisbergen won the 2016 season with Côme Ledogar and Rob Bell having won the 3 Hours of Monza and the 1000 km Paul Ricard despite skipping the last round at the Nürburgring due to a clash with his Supercars Championship commitments. Shane won 7 of the 9 races in total of the Endurance rounds including sweeping the entire Fuchs 500 weekend at Pukekohe Park Raceway with winning race #3 in spectacular fashion driving from 1 lap down.[3]. | Print "I owe everything to my family," van Gisbergen said. The Bend II. From pestering his Dad Robert to buy him a Suzuki ATV at the tender age of five, to signing - at just 17 years of age - a contract to race V8 Supercars for top Ford team Stone Brothers Racing, the constant in his life has been competition. Driving for Team Kiwi Racing, van Gisbergen finished the first race in 20th position before improving to 13th for race 2 but then dropped down to 23rd in race 3. "I really think that as a driver I've improved by doing the extra curricula stuff. 93 talking about this. In 2016, van Gisbergen moved to the successful Triple Eight Race Engineering team, alongside two of the most successful drivers in series history; Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes. Van Gisbergen had started the 2014 race from pole position, his first at the event. Van Gisbergen managed to controversially escape a penalty for spinning his wheels during a pit stop at the Auckland SuperSprint at Pukekohe. Shane van Gisbergen 1989-05-09 (age 31) Team AIM Vasser Sullivan. Whincup is a six-time Supercars champion and was hoping there would be a chance to get to seven when van Gisbergen was down the back of the field on Saturday, but he admitted the Kiwi deserved this title. Let’s start at the beginning, with a young Shane smashing fenceposts on the family farm in New Zealand. In 2014, he entered both the 24 Hours of Daytona and the Bathurst 12 Hour for the first time, the latter again in partnership with Quinn, this time in a McLaren.
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