“What Have I Got Myself Into” – Shane Van Gisbergen Caught by Surprise at the Indianapolis Raceway Park

Broadcasters and reporters have always worked overtime after almost every road course race at NASCAR. Thanks to the madhouse that the street circuits are. With multiple contacts and wild restarts, each road course race is an absolute snack for every NASCAR fan out there.

However, from the driver’s point of view, this commotion is not quite desirable. When there are 3 or even 4 cars trying to pass each other around a turn, and nobody is ready to play easy, each driver feels the rush of the hour. Recently, Shane Van Gisbergen had his first race on an oval road course and moments later, he spoke about how it felt.

NASCAR road courses scared the 3-time Supercar champion, Shane Van Gisbergen

Let’s rewind the time to last year’s Verizon 200 at Brickyard. Most of the aggression happened when all 38 cars barreled into turn 1 after the restart. With a restart just three laps prior to the end of the race, the magnitude of ruthlessness just skyrocketed. The cars went 8 wide and multiple drivers, like Austin Dillon, turned. Smoke from the brakes was everywhere, and that dimmed the day for Chase Elliott, who was running second. Elliott got rammed from the back and his teammate, Willam Byron, got caught up in the mess.

Going further back in time, IMS had witnessed Joey Logano ramming his Ford into the tire barrier, besides 6 cautious and a multi-car pileup in 2021.

It is quite normal that anyone would give it a second thought before holding the steering of one of those cars. It was not any different for Shane Van Gisbergen. The Kiwi icon spoke to Bob Pockrass after his qualifying race at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

He said, “I watched last year’s race and thought what have I got myself into?”

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But luckily for the V8 Supercar pilot, the road course race did not live up to its scary standards. He admitted, “It was more respectful than I thought… the race was good, it was pretty wide, there were only small contacts, the people I was around were really fun.”

Why are the road course races in NASCAR so challenging?

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SVG is not the only Aussie who will be driving in NASCAR this year. He will be joined by his contemporary Brodie Kostecki on the tracks of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Hence, a lot of murmurs are going on behind the garage regarding this Aussie invasion.

In a recent episode of Stacking Pennies, Ryan Flores asked Brodie how was racing on road courses different from racing on NASCAR courses. Kostecki explained that it is an entirely different approach.

He said, “I can go to Indy and go bumming into turn 1 and learn when braking my car can be a mistake, you can’t do that on a street circuit. Because you get penalized. The car will get written off. So, probably the mental fatigue, trying to drive between the walls is just ridiculous.”

He concluded by saying, “Gonna be easier than Indy, let me tell you.”

As SVG’s Indy car debut as well as Brodie’s NASCAR debut inch closer and closer, NASCAR fans are excited to see the fury unfold. Will these two Aussie Supercar icons be able to survive the turmoil? We are as excited as you are!

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