Shane Van Gisbergen, Australian Supercars legend-turned-Xfinity Series racer, found Victory Lane at Portland International Raceway on June 1st, 2024. It’s the first time the No. 97 Chevy Camaro SS has won, while it’s Van Gisbergen’s second win in a NASCAR national division, following his victory on the Chicago street course in the Cup Series last year, proving that he’s right at home in American stock car racing.
Van Gisbergen – also known by his initials, SVG – fought hard to win on the 1.967-mile road course in Oregon. He led early in the race, but couldn’t quite get his NASCAR Chevy race car to behave on restarts. However, he bounced back from a few miscues during the race, muscling his way steadily forward until he was back up front. In fact, he passed the No. 7 Camaro of Justin Allgaier with four laps left, pulling away to solidify his win.
| Finish | Start | Car Number | Driver | Team | Laps Run | Laps Led | Car |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 97 | Shane van Gisbergen # | Quad Lock Chevrolet | 75 | 12 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 2 | 5 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | BRANDT Chevrolet | 75 | 46 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 3 | 9 | 8 | Sammy Smith | Pilot Flying J Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 4 | 10 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | Cirkul Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 5 | 17 | 24 | Ed Jones | Synergy Modular Toyota | 75 | 0 | Toyota TRD Camry |
| 6 | 4 | 00 | Cole Custer | Autodesk/Haas Automation Ford | 75 | 0 | Ford Mustang |
| 7 | 22 | 11 | Josh Williams | Alloy Employer Services Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 8 | 7 | 48 | Parker Kligerman | Spiked Lite Coolers Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 9 | 15 | 31 | Parker Retzlaff | FUNKAWAY Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 10 | 3 | 98 | Riley Herbst | Monster Energy Ford | 75 | 15 | Ford Mustang |
| 11 | 18 | 21 | Austin Hill | Bennett Transportation Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 12 | 8 | 19 | Josh Bilicki | Ditec Marine Products Toyota | 75 | 0 | Toyota TRD Camry |
| 13 | 6 | 18 | Sheldon Creed | Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Toyota | 75 | 2 | Toyota TRD Camry |
| 14 | 24 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Sci Aps Ford | 75 | 0 | Ford Mustang |
| 15 | 26 | 32 | Austin Green | 3Dimensional.com Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 16 | 28 | 44 | Brennan Poole | Frontline Fire Protection Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 17 | 25 | 43 | Ryan Ellis | Classic Collision Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 18 | 37 | 28 | Kyle Sieg | RSS Racing Ford | 75 | 0 | Ford Mustang |
| 19 | 12 | 2 | Jesse Love # | Whelen Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 20 | 31 | 29 | Blaine Perkins | AutoParkit.com Ford | 75 | 0 | Ford Mustang |
| 21 | 35 | 92 | Nathan Byrd | CleanCore Solutions Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 22 | 34 | 4 | Garrett Smithley | Dozer Winch Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 23 | 30 | 14 | Andre Castro | Ryvid Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 24 | 36 | 6 | Patrick Gallagher | www.teamjdmotorsports.com Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 25 | 23 | 91 | Kyle Weatherman | DriveSmart/Portland Gear Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 26 | 32 | 42 | Leland Honeyman # | RANDCO Industries Chevrolet | 75 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 27 | 13 | 20 | Ryan Truex | The Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota | 75 | 0 | Toyota TRD Camry |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | Sam Mayer | RTIC Outdoors Chevrolet | 74 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 29 | 33 | 7 | Logan Bearden | Environmental Controls Corp Chevrolet | 74 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 30 | 27 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Impel Union/Alliance Chevrolet | 73 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 31 | 29 | 38 | Matt DiBenedetto | Viking Motorsports Ford | 73 | 0 | Ford Mustang |
| 32 | 19 | 5 | Anthony Alfredo | Chevy Accessories Chevrolet | 72 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 33 | 38 | 15 | Hailie Deegan # | AirBox Ford | 71 | 0 | Ford Mustang |
| 34 | 14 | 26 | Sage Karam | Synergy Modular Toyota | 69 | 0 | Toyota TRD Camry |
| 35 | 11 | 81 | Chandler Smith | QuickTie Toyota | 66 | 0 | Toyota TRD Camry |
| 36 | 20 | 9 | Brandon Jones | Menards/MagickWoods Vanities Chevrolet | 66 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 37 | 16 | 27 | Jeb Burton | Timber Creek Outdoors Chevrolet | 61 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
| 38 | 21 | 36 | Preston Pardus | Danus Utilities Inc. Chevrolet | 9 | 0 | Chevrolet Camaro SS |
# – Rookie
i – Points ineligible
* – Part-time driver
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Comments
SVG knows how to drive a road course. Great fun to watch. I hope to see more supercar drivers competing here soon. It’ll make life interesting for the traditional nascar drivers.
Shane van Gisbergen is one of the best drivers in the world. I hope to see him dominate Xfinity soon, then on to the Cup series to have an incredible career. I fully support him and he is such a great guy too.
He’s from New Zealand by the way, even though the article doesn’t mention that.
S.V.G. is really enjoying himself here in the states racing every week, some times even doing the double, cup race a well, in Australia they only race once a month, and that is only for an hour, anymore than one hour they have to have a second driver while the main driver has a nap. Plus over there they have strange rules, a guy sits in a glass box and issues five of ten second penalties if you cut in front of a driver in the pits, or touch another car on the track, if they saw our bash and crashing in the pits, bump and run and paybacks, the guy in the glass box would have a cardiac arrest, or drivers would accumulate that much time penalties, they would not be allowed to drive for a year.