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Shane Van Gisbergen is Ready For Vegas! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Top five finish in the books at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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  Did that surprise you? And how well, how much
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  confidence you're bringing into Las Vegas this weekend, knowing
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  that you had such a great run last weekend?
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  Yeah, afternoon everyone. It was just an awesome, awesome
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  race again. Learnt a lot, had an adventure
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  up and down the field and but yeah, ran really well with in
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  and amongst everyone and I I think we're on for like a 10th
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  to 12th place anyway, which was great.
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  And then obviously we had a good call with the with the fuel and
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  pretty crazy last couple of laps to gain those spots.
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  But yeah, to get a third, another a top five.
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  So, so early in our run here is really well.
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  So, oh, it's a really good feeling.
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  So yeah, but now we got some quite different tracks coming in
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  and it's going to be a challenge.
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  I think looks crazy. We went for a walk out there
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  before and just the wind is how that's going to affect it.
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  You know, like I felt wind and race cars before, but not at
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  these speeds. I'm not sure what it's going to
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  be like and how it's going to affect each end of it.
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  So just got to get out there and feel it.
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  But it's how fast the cars are going into turn one that's going
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  to be eye opening I think. Mark Garrow Performance Racing
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  Network Shane I'm I'm curious just your thoughts about going
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  to all these new race tracks and how this kind of travel.
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  I know Australia's pretty big place, but how does this travel
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  compare to where, OK, we raced in Atlanta, now we're, you know,
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  now we're in Las Vegas, we're going to be in Phoenix and bam,
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  we're right back on the East Coast again another 2000 miles,
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  you know, as far as difference between tracks.
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  So just how do you look at you know the, the excitement I guess
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  or the anticipation of these all these new places in the in the
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  travel and how does it compare? Yeah, I guess the distance is
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  pretty similar to Australia, the countryside, but it's just every
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  week and the weeks are a lot shorter here.
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  You know, we would normally fly out to a race on Tuesday or
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  Wednesday and then not come home till the Monday.
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  So it was quite weird flying out Friday night or Friday morning
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  and then I was home the next night after my race.
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  The weekends are so condensed and then during the weeks, you
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  know, you have your one or two days debriefing thinking about
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  it, and then instantly you're thinking about the next race.
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  It's the routine of it is very very different but it's
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  something that I'm enjoying. It's just you're constantly
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  thinking about race cars and it's yeah it's it's pretty cool
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  so far but you know we're we're back and forth all the time.
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  I'll go back to Charlotte next week and then come back out this
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  side again next week so and then the week after that I'll go back
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  to New Zealand. So a bit going on yeah.
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  Well, normally would be two or three weeks between race
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  weekends and Supercars, so I was trying to drive as much other
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  things as I can. But pretty much I know what I'm
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  doing every day until November now.
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  Like it's pretty awesome to have my schedule filled up and have a
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  have a routine of something is is probably what I'm enjoying
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  the most. Great.
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  Let's go to the middle here. Excuse.
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  Me, Brian Twaining, Betzwords Media Group, Congratulations on
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  the tremendous start to the season.
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  How excited are you to get past the roulette style races of
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  Daytona and Atlanta and get to something that is more suited
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  for drivers? Yeah, I I I think it's going to
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  be good. I enjoyed Atlanta a lot more
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  than Daytona. You had to, you know, peddle it
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  a bit more and search for air to try and get the car to handle.
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  So I enjoyed that. I enjoyed qualifying at Atlanta,
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  not having seen the track before, then having to go do it
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  wide open and it was pretty I I kept it flat, but you know it
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  was a bit on edge and I was hanging on pretty tight.
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  And then I watched Austin Hill's lap and he's driving around one
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  handed block an event. So I got a bit to go before I
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  get comfortable. But yeah, this this kind of
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  style of track is completely different.
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  And then watching the race from last year, how everyone gets
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  spread out and you know, trying to balance the tires, make
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  changes, it looks looks like a very different style of race.
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  So yeah, as I sort of said before, I just got to get out
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  there and feel it try in this practice.
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  I'll try and run for most of the practice, just get as many laps
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  as I can, feel the ties go off and move around the track a bit
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  just to get experience. Chris Willner, MRN, Shane I know
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  every week is a learning experience as we go to these
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  places for you for the first time.
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  But what have you learned or what maybe has surprised you
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  most about the racecraft and learning where to put yourself
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  amongst the race? Because it seemed like you know,
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  and I know Justin's been high on this too.
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  You just seem to pick things up so quickly.
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  He's just it's amazing to see. So what have you learned the
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  most about the racecraft part of of tackling these race tracks?
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  I don't know. Everyone's, everyone's.
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  I don't think aggressive is the right word, but sharp and
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  committed. You know, watching Austin Hill
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  in particular at Daytona, he passed me a couple of times and
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  he was just so committed where he was placed in his car and he
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  was so aware of his surroundings.
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  It was really impressive to watch and I'm not at that level
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  or confidence yet to do that. But it's yeah, pretty impressive
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  to watch what he was doing. And then when we're in a line at
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  Atlanta, you know, it's still, you know, you're you're riding
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  but you're still having to push pretty hard.
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  But watching people trying to make moves and analyse how they
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  were doing things, yeah, it's. And I got shuffled out of line
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  at one point and, you know, felt like the guy hit me, but he just
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  got close to me and it made me slide up.
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  So, yeah, just trying to understand how things work.
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  You know, the air, the air affects the cars so differently
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  at these kind of speeds. And it's stuff I've never felt
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  before. So I just got to try to
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  understand how things work and what they do.
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  OK, let's come up to the middle here to the front.
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  Oh, she's, she's bringing a mic to you, Jay, with Channel 3 NBC
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  locally here. Tell me a little bit at how do
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  you, how do you and your team prepare for these type of
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  condition, like the win, especially the win here in
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  Vegas? Yeah, I guess it's something you
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  can't really prepare for, obviously, but it's going to
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  change how they feel. At one end, you're probably
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  going to be quite good with the more downforce from the wind at
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  that end. And then at 3:00 and 4:00 it's
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  going to be trying to push you up the hill.
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  So it's just something you got to be prepared for and keep up
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  to date with it and keep watching the flags, getting
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  reports from the team, how how windy it's going to be or how
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  much it's going to change for qualifying.
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  But the biggest thing, you want it to be consistent so it's the
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  same all the time. So hopefully in qualifying it's
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  it's similar for everyone or or it dies down for me maybe, I
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  don't know, I haven't been out there yet, yeah.
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  Don't like the wall? UNLV Rebel Report SVG.
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  Is this your first time in Las Vegas?
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  And if it is, can you kind of detail to everyone about what
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  your first impressions of the city are?
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  There's no grass. I like, you know, grass and
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  being on a farm and stuff. So I feel like I'm a long way
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  from a home, from home, but it's pretty cool.
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  It's a cool place to see. I've never been here before but
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  just seeing all the massive buildings and the atmosphere and
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  actually was weird and the hotel, obviously the rugby
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  league tournaments here so I recognise a lot of accents and
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  actually some people recognise me, which was pretty cool but
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  yeah, it's not my kind of place but it's nice then.
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  What'd you make? What'd you make of the the slot
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  machines at the airport Stepping off the.
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  Plane. Yeah, I oh, no, we didn't go
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  through there. But yeah, just leaving the hotel
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  this morning, like, can't believe how busy it was at 10:00
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  AM. Just people gambling.
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  So yeah, so won't be me. Yeah.
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  Switch you over here. Haro Guerra.
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  You know the Rebel Report SVG. When you got the call to run at
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  the Chicago St. course last year, did you expect it to
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  unfold in what it has now? I mean, obviously you're running
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  full time now in the Xfinity Series.
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  The fans are starting to love you more.
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  So what did you make of all of that?
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  Yeah, my life's gone completely 180 what I thought it would be.
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  And even when I got the call I thought it was just going to be
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  1. I won race deal and obviously it
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  went really well but it's more the enjoyment factor and and
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  then just wanting wanting a new challenge I guess as well and
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  this is a perfect time to to come and have a go at something
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  and yeah put the next few years try my best to to make it here
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  in the cup series full time. Speaking of new challenges,
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  you're about to run at Las Vegas, but is there another
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  track that you haven't visited yet that you're really eager to
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  go try out for the first time? Yeah, I said before, probably
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  the Texas and Darlington top tracks.
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  Everyone says those are the most difficult and thankfully they're
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  a few races away, but I'm giving more time to get comfortable.
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  But those tough places, you know, that's where I want to
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  challenge myself and you know, see, see what they're like,
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  right? We'll come up here to Jim Utter.
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  Jimuttermotorsport.com This is sort of related question.
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  You came in with a lot of unknowns.
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  One of them was Super Speedway racing, Obviously you got two
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  weeks of that. So are there other areas that
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  you're looking, You talked about challenging yourself.
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  Are there some that you just looking forward to more than
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  others that are coming up? Yeah, well, this type of track
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  is I guess the standard NASCAR race or NASCAR style of track.
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  So you know, this would be the first time today I've felt the
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  car with full power and you know, they they look like they
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  drive completely different at, you know, the Super Speedway
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  type of tracks with the, it just looks like they're sliding on
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  edge the whole time. So that's something I got to try
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  and feel, get all four tires feeling the same and sliding the
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  same and that's going to take some time.
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  I don't think I'll be able to run straight up front at tracks
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  like this. I think this is where the style
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  of track where it's going to take time to get better and
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  adapt to. So yeah, I'm not.
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  Even though we had a great result last week, I'm not
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  putting in any pressure on myself for the team to get the
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  same again. You know where pretty much
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  starting again. We gotta build up and keep the
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  expectations in check and just do the best we can and improve
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  and learn something every week.