Shane van Gisbergen tied Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon’s mark of three consecutive road course victories from the pole with Sunday’s dominating victory at Sonoma Raceway.

Gordon accomplished his feat in the 1998-99 seasons.

Van Gisbergen’s road course victories have come at Mexico, Chicago and now Sonoma in the last five races. His three wins this year ties Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell for most this season.

“Unreal guys, thank you,” van Gisbergen radioed his team after taking the checkered flag.

Said crew chief Stephen Doran on van Gisbergen: “He’s something NASCAR has never seen on road courses.”

Van Gisbergen collected six playoff points with the victory and a stage win Sunday. His 17 playoff points rank third in the series at this point, trailing only Larson (23 playoff points) and Hamlin (19).

Ty Dillon, John Hunter Nemechek, Tyler Reddick and Ty Gibbs remain in race for $1 million.

Van Gisbergen’s win also gives Trackhouse Racing four victories in the last eight races, which includes Ross Chastain’s Coca-Cola 600 win on Memorial Day weekend.

Chase Briscoe finished second for his best road course result. Chase Elliott rallied to third after a late pit stop to earn his fifth consecutive top 10 at Sonoma. Michael McDowell placed fourth for his fourth top 10 in a row at Sonoma. Bell completed the top five, earning his best result at the Northern California track.

Van Gisbergen led 97 of 110 laps. The race was slowed by six cautions for 17 laps.

Here is what drivers said after Sunday’s Cup race in Northern California.

Stage 1 winner: Ross Chastain

Stage 2 winner: Shane van Gisbergen

Next: The series races at 2 p.m. ET Sunday, July 20 at Dover Motor Speedway.

Michael McDowell picked up his highest finish yet in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season finishing fourth Sunday at Sonoma Raceway.

The Spire Motorsports driver started 15th in the Toyota / Save Mart 350 but finished the race with his second Top-5 effort of the year.

“We needed a little bit more pace,” McDowell said. “Qualifying really hurt us. I think we had decent pace, but we weren’t fast enough to get around the good cars.”

McDowell now has two Top-5 finishes in the last five races, tying his career-high for Top-5 finishes in a single season.

Additionally, McDowell led three laps in the race, leading laps for the second consecutive week.

McDowell started second at the Chicago Street Course. He led the opening 31 laps before a throttle cable relegated him to a 32nd-place finish.

Yet, if McDowell makes the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, doing so without a victory may not be feasible.

With six races before the playoffs, McDowell is 70 points behind the cutline for the post-season. The maximum points a driver could gain in a race is 60.

McDowell and crew chief Stephen Doran did their best to go for that win Sunday. Doran brought McDowell to pit road when the fuel window opened, with 47 laps to go. It put him on a strategy to stay out and stretch his fuel, which worked — until Shane van Gisbergen swept him up two laps later.

After pitting for fresh tires under a late caution, McDowell could only get back to fourth.

“We salvaged a top-five day, but that’s not what we need. We all know what we need to do, and we just weren’t quite good enough to do it today. But this is part of the process. You have good weeks and bad weeks,” McDowell said. “Last weekend (at Chicago), we had a car that could win. Today, we were a little off. We’ll keep building on it.”

Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.

From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book “All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story” with racer Geoff Bodine.

Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.

You can reach Dominic at daragon@theracingexperts.net.

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SUPERIOR, Wis. (Northern News Now) – Over in Superior, about a mile past Pattison State Park, it was a bit noisy on Saturday.

After having to cancel the original first points race, Go-kart racing is back in Superior after nearly a decade.

Hundreds of fans and racers showed up at the newly renovated Black River Motorsports for a day filled with racing.

43 Go Karts competed in the event, from as young as five years old to teenagers participating.

This spring, a group came together and worked to revitalize the track.

“We’re bringing back the go-karts, we’re racing on dirt. We’re just pushing to bring more kids back into racing, and if we don’t start young, then we’re not going to get them to go back to Superior and Proctor, all the local tracks,” said Donnie Lofdahl in May.

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“Honestly, I don’t know what more I need. I feel like my car is extremely, extremely good and every time I’m kind of running down Shane, he’d just pick up the pace himself and start driving back away. It was frustrating at times, but I was happy with the effort. This is honestly my worst racetrack, so I kind of surprised myself, truthfully.”

Chase Elliott finished third, followed by Michael McDowell and Bell.

With Sunday’s race, the semifinals are set for the NASCAR In-Season Challenge. Ty Dillon passed Alex Bowman on the final lap to win their matchup. He will face John Hunter Nemechek, who eliminated LEGACY MOTOR CLUB teammate Erik Jones.

On the other side of the bracket, a sixth-place finish for Tyler Reddick advanced him past Ryan Preece. He’ll face fellow Toyota driver Ty Gibbs, who finished seventh to eliminate Zane Smith.

The next stop for the NASCAR Cup Series is the AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday, July 20. The green flag waves at 2 p.m. ET, with coverage on TNT, the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

-Photo credit: Harold Hinson, HHP for Chevy Racing

Shane van Gisbergen led 97 of 110 laps to win the NASCAR Sonoma race.

Shane van Gisbergen is once again a road course winner in the NASCAR Cup Series.