SONOMA, Calif. — Recent off a weekend sweep on the Chicago Avenue Circuit, Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen picked up proper the place he left off by driving a pair of Chevrolet-powered machines to a sweep of the pole wins at Sonoma Raceway.
Concluding the NASCAR Cup Sequence observe session quickest on the very best 10-lap common, the 36-year-old New Zealand native drove his No. 88 Chevrolet to the highest of the qualifying velocity charts on his ultimate run by posting a best-lap of 1:14.594.
He was the one driver to hit speeds at 96 mph across the 1.99-mile California circuit.
Van Gisbergen’s fourth profession pole in NASCAR’s prime division was sufficient to push Chevrolet to a double-digit file in qualifying triumphs this season, with the Bowtie brigade incomes the pole place for the tenth time in 20 points-paying races.
“It’s fairly superior. We’ve had a extremely cool couple of weeks,” Van Gisbergen stated. “You simply really feel the power within the store while you stroll in on Monday and Tuesday. Even the stay-at-home guys and ladies making ready the automobiles — it’s only a cool ambiance within the store. Everybody’s lifted up. Ross’s win sort of began it on the Coke 600, and we simply bought higher and higher. So yeah, it’s actually cool for everybody.”
Additionally claiming the pole place for right this moment’s NASCAR Xfinity Sequence race aboard a JR Motorsports Chevrolet, Van Gisbergen is one step nearer to including onto NASCAR historical past as soon as once more this weekend.
The Rookie of the Yr contender might probably change into the one driver in historical past to comb the pole and race wins in NASCAR’s top-two divisions greater than as soon as.
Van Gisbergen will share the entrance row with Chase Briscoe, who drove his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to a 1:18.844 lap.
Chevrolet drivers William Byron, Ross Chastain and A.J. Allmendinger accomplished the highest 5.
