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Shane van Gisbergen remained a lazy in the Nascar Cup series, with left and right turns, and won in the track’s debut at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.
The Trackhouse Racing manager qualified with his second career victory for the play -offs, which the last 32 rounds in his no. 88 Chevrolet led and easily exceeded by Christopher Bell with more than 16 seconds. It was the first cup win for Van Gisbergen since the New Zealand native in his series debut -the first street match in 2023 in Chicago.
“What a week, I really enjoyed myself,” Van Gisbergen told Prime’s Marty Snider, who reported that the three times Supercars champion got tips from four-time formula one champion Max Verstappen before the race over the track (which also plays host to F1).
The Trackhouse Racing Manager achieved a dominant performance for his second Career Cup victory.
Snider also said Van Gisbergen has to do with a front stomach error, but he still managed to lead a 60 of 100 rounds.
“I felt nice garbage today,” said Van Gisbergen. “Our car was surprising. I think (Ty Gibbs) was close. That list, man, who just got a pleasure shot at the shot. See how they get smaller in the mirror. Unreal. ‘
Chase Elliott finishes third, followed by Alex Bowman and Michael McDowell.
John Hunter Nemechek, Chase Briscoe, Cole Custer, William Byron and Chris Buescher rounded off the top -10.
Gibbs finished 11th, despite led three times for 27 laps when a Midrace enhancement The No. 54 Toyota burned, which chose to stay on track longer than of Gisbergen during a green-flag cycle. Gibbs was in 11th place when the race started again 69 of 100, but could not make progress and started slipping.
The race was delayed by six warning flags, but ran green for the last 33 laps, while the air cleared a threatening prediction that affected the first half of the race.
The bad weather just arrived after the green flag, with a day filled with strategy gambling and predictions based on the radar.
The warning flew on lap 1 as the rain began, allowing teams to make competitive pit stops for wet bearings. Chris Buescher and Austin Cindric chose to stay on track with smooth tires, but they are both quickly on the restart.
Buescher fell from the first to 16th place within a few laps, and Cindric fell to the 10th. Their free fall was continued by a yellow flag for Kyle Busch, who lost control on the turn 1 of the seventh shot. His accident collected seven other drivers, including Kyle Larson (who fell more than 30 laps with damage).
“Just in the rain, and I went into 11 and tackled the brakes pretty hard,” Busch told Snider on Pime. “Everything was fine, everything was comfortable, stopped really well. And I’m like, “Ok, I can be a little more aggressive to get into 1,” and I thought it was going well, and as soon as I went to the brakes, it was like being on the ice, and I just slipped.
“About a half and a half or so did I try to find out what direction I should go, and I was like,” I have to turn this thing backwards because I’m going to nail a few people. “Hate it for everyone involved in my accident.
On the front, the fight began between Van Gisbergen and Gibbs, who swapped the lead as they chose to draw just before the end of the first phase. They once again traded the lead again after the phase 2 on lap 25.
Their strategies split at the end of the second phase, while Gibbs chose to keep four tires with two rounds, while Gisbergen remains on the right track to win the stage and risk that a nearby shower can force everyone back into the pits while leading.
However, the rain held off, and Gibbs could rally from the 15th to the fourth time over the first 10 rounds of the last phase, while Van Gisbergen first struggled with Bell before having a lead of almost 5 seconds.
But after the final yellow, from Gisbergen to a big lead zoomed in when Gibbs got stuck in the pack, and the drama evaporated during the last 30 rounds. The final unforgettable moment comes after the checkered flag when Ricky Stenhouse jr. Carson Hcevar confronted after having their second incident in three weeks.
After winning Saturday’s Xfinity race, Mexican native Daniel Suarez finished 19th.
“Our race was up and down,” he said. “In the rain we were decent, and when the racetrack first started to dry out, I didn’t feel like we were wonderful, but we were still in the hunt. Unfortunately, the risk did not work out. Honestly, I gave my best today, and it just wasn’t good enough. I wanted me to be a little more in the mix. Okay, and the strategy didn’t work out.
“It’s definitely a weekend I will remember for a very long time.”
Phase 1 winner: Ryan Preece
Phase 2 winner: Of Gisbergen
Next up: Sunday, June 22, 2:00 pm et at Pocono Raceway on Prime.
