Chicago – Sher van gisbergen Burned his tires at the festival, sent white smoke to the air. He signed a rugby ball and rented it at the Stand in the city of Chicago. It was a familiar view.
Van Gisbergen completed a Windy City sweep on Sunday, winning the NASCAR Cup series race on the Tricks Street Course in the city Chicago.
“Epious weekend for us. I am a lucky man,” said Van Gisbergen.
A talented too. The 36 -year -old New Zealand native became another driver to sweep XFINITY and Cup race from Pole, from Pole, Kyle Busch In 2016 in Indianapolis. With his third career cup win, Van Gisbergen also became the most winning foreign-birth driver in the top range of NASCAR.
The van Gisbergen had the second win of the season after the trackhouse racing driver won the Mexico City Road course last month.
Justin Marx, the owner of the trackhouse, said, “He is the best road course stock car racer I have ever seen.” “I think when he is done with all of us and goes away from the game, I think he is going to go away as the best road course racer that this game has ever seen.”
Marx brought van Gisbergen from Australia’s supercar for the first edition of NASCAR’s Chicago use in 2023, and he became the first driver to win his cup debut since Johnny Rutherford in the second qualifying race in 1963.
Van Gisbergen also won the first phase in Chicago’s exfinity series stop and cup race last year before he was out of an accident.
“This joint, it has changed my life,” said van Gisbergen. “When I first came here, I had no plans to run a NASCAR, and I never thought I would stay in NASCAR the whole time.”
What can be the final NASCAR race on the city Chicago Circuit, Ti gibes The second was and Tyler radic Stayed third. Denny Hamlin And Busch dropped out of the top five.
Gibbs said, “My team got a great strategy bad and came in a position to bring me to compete to win.” “It worked for us today, so I am happy to be a good finish, but we want us to go to win.”
Michael McDowell In the front row, the van joined Gisbergen and quickly went in front. He won Stage 1 and led to 31 laps before derailing a throttle cable issue.
Van Gisbergen achieved the lead after passing Chase brisko Save with 16 laps. As fog and rain led to the city of Chicago, van Gisbergen controlled the action in the rest of the way.
AJ Almender Was the sixth, and Ryan Pris Finished seventh. Ryan BlaniThe one who won the second phase was ranked 12th.
“I thought it was a very good day overall. It was good to win the stage,” Blanne said.
William BayronThe day was shortened by the clutch problem. Handric motorcysts driver leads 13 points to point standing Chase eliet,
McDowell seized the initial lead in the race, Carson Hoswar When he collides with the wall and exits between 10 and 11, a multica caused accident. Brad Keselovsky, Austin Dillon, Daniel Suarez And Will be brown Were among the drivers collected in the debris.
“I didn’t see it for the last second,” Kesellowski said. “I slow down and I really felt that I am going to stop and then I just ran away from behind. It’s just a narrow street course and never go anywhere.”
Tie dillon And the inauguration of Reddick NASCAR went into the third round of the tournament, when Weselowski and Hoswar were unable to finish the race. Dillon, number 32 seeds, ended Keselowski after harassing top seeded Denny Hamlin in Atlanta in the last weekend.
Gibbs, Pras, Alex boman, John Hunter Nemchec, Zen Smith And Eric Jones Advanced too. The winner of the five-race, bracket-style tournament took a $ 1 million prize.
Boman, 2024 champions on downtown street course, won their head-to-head matchup Babba WallaceBoman and Wallace contacted as they struggled for a late situation in the race after getting entangled in Chicago last year.
Boman said, “I didn’t expect it to happen or run like this, but we did.” “We just have to move beyond this and dig. I really don’t know what I could do so much.”
Top -20 finish
Catherine leg He finished 19th for his best career cup result. She became the first woman to end in the top 20 in a cup race Danica patrick In November 2017 in Texas.
Legezes were the first woman to qualify for a cup race in Chicago city.
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