Shane van Gisbergen has raced to his third Xfinity Sequence victory of the season, making a profitable return to the NASCAR road course in downtown Chicago.
Van Gisbergen began on pole earlier than dropping again after a pit cease. He then made his approach by way of the sphere earlier than pulling away for the victory.
“What an awesome race,” he mentioned. “It was fairly wild there on the finish.”
The 35-year-old New Zealand native acquired his first two Xfinity wins for Kaulig Racing on highway programs at Portland and Sonoma on consecutive weekends final month.
Identical to he did after these victories, he celebrated by autographing a rugby ball and kicking it into the stands in Chicago.
Ty Gibbs was second, adopted by Kyle Larson, Parker Kligerman and Jesse Love. Larson is on the pole for the Cup Sequence race Sunday.
A 3-time champion in Australia’s Supercars, van Gisbergen was a largely unknown commodity within the US earlier than he received final summer time in NASCAR’s wet inaugural weekend on the downtown Chicago course.
He turned the primary driver to win his Cup Sequence debut since Johnny Rutherford within the second qualifying race at Daytona in 1963.
