Broc Feeney’s impressive lap around the Surfers Paradise street circuit has NASCAR JGR’s Chase Briscoe sharing why Shane van Gisbergen is particularly successful on Cup Series road courses. The Kiwi has won the last five road races on the American stock car calendar, using his experience from the Supercars era.
SVG had burst onto the stock car racing scene in the Supercars championship. The cars there are very different from those raced in NASCAR and are used on a variety of street and road courses.
While he now races for Trackhouse Racing in the Cup Series field, some of the Supercars championship’s defining moments still cross oceans through social media. With qualifying for the Gold Coast 500 underway, Feeney set an exceptional lap time, gliding through the intricacies of the track:
Subsequently, Corey LaJoie reacted to Feeney’s lap, to which Chase Briscoe responded on
“No wonder Shane van Gisbergen makes all our runs so easy 😂”
The 36-year-old is in his first full-time season in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Shane van Gisbergen explains the difference between Supercars and NASCAR
Shane van Gisbergen has spent almost 17 years racing in the Supercars championship. But his move from home to NASCAR seemed obvious at first glance.
This meant he had to adapt to the stock car racing sphere in the United States, which saw him carve his own path in the series. Reflecting on the differences he encountered in NASCAR, the Kiwi told Kevin Harvic during the happy hour podcast:
“It’s probably more intense, because it’s every week and the challenge is so different every week. It’s not like you’re doing a mile every week, you’re doing a different style of track every week, and the preparation and everything else is so different.”
“They’re similar on paper. But the way they drive, I think the locked differential is the biggest difference. Having an open differential here makes a big difference. You know, you don’t have to do it – the technique was so unique in a supercar, with heel and toe and applying as many rear brakes as possible. It’s a bit of the opposite in this car. You run as much in front as possible. People make a big deal out of the right foot braking, but it doesn’t really do anything in this car. “
Meanwhile, Shane van Gisbergen holds the record for most race wins in a Rookie Cup Series season, having won five times this year so far.
Edited by Geetansh Pasricha
