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Ryan Blaney reveals what’s in his NASCAR driver code of conduct

Inside the car, Ryan Blaney is an outspoken driver who often lets his rivals know when they’ve annoyed him. And as a veteran of over 350 Cup races with 14 wins (including last weekend at Nashville), he has plenty of thoughts regarding how he wants to be raced and how he chooses to race others. […]

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Inside the car, Ryan Blaney is an outspoken driver who often lets his rivals know when they’ve annoyed him. And as a veteran of over 350 Cup races with 14 wins (including last weekend at Nashville), he has plenty of thoughts regarding how he wants to be raced and how he chooses to race others.

While this unwritten driver code of conduct varies throughout the field, Blaney helped create his with guidance from his father Dave, who started 473 Cup races in his own career.

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Three-wide battle for the race lead with William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, Ryan Blaney, Team Penske Ford, and Bubba Wallace, 23XI Racing Toyota

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“Everyone’s line is different,” said Blaney is a Saturday press conference. “I can’t really speak for anybody else. My father [Dave] raised me. He raced for a long time, so I had that going for me that he was able to teach me the do’s and don’ts. I’ve been chewed out a lot when I was younger for doing the wrong thing – at being overly aggressive and costing somebody else. My dad chewed my ass out when I did that.

“I did it a few times in late models when I was like 13 and he said it right. He set the line. He said, ‘This is wrong. You do not race this way. This is just how it is.’  It was one of those situations where I’m racing someone hard and I made a mistake. I slipped up and I spun him out. It wasn’t intentional, but even those mistakes dad would really make me clean up right away. That’s just how his dad raised him.”

Blaney is also a driver who welcomes “hard racing” on the track, accepting that contact is a byproduct of that. Especially in modern NASCAR, where passing is extremely difficult and the field is so close together.

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“Everyone races hard (and) contact is going to happen,” said Blaney. “I think it’s an issue if it happens repetitively, like a lot. I think that’s when it starts becoming an issue. It’s like, ‘Do you learn from your mistakes?’ You can say you’re sorry all you want, but if you don’t learn from them and make a change, then everyone thinks you’re lying and you don’t feel sorry about that.”

As for where the line is, Blaney drew it right about where Carson Hocevar hit Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at Nashville. Blaney himself had an issue with Hocevar at Atlanta after getting run into from behind while entering Turn 1.

“To me, over the line is if you get run over in the rear bumper and you get spun out and wrecked, then you have a brake pedal. You ran into that guy. I’ve read some stuff this week and people are like, ‘Well, Stenhouse could have cut him a break.’ I’m like, ‘How can Stenhouse cut him a break?’ I don’t understand. I think the #77 [Hocevar] could have cut him a break if you’re gonna talk about breaks. I don’t even think that situation was cutting somebody a break. That was just getting run over.”

Blaney did praise Hocevar as a natural talent who knows how to go fast, but he wants to see him learn and grow from these recent moments.

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“All of us have been young,” continued Blaney. “We’ve all been aggressive. Everyone has a heavy right foot when they get going and that’s good. I think he’s a very, very talented race car driver. He’s one of the best guys out there. It’s hard to teach speed. I think he just has to refine a little bit of what he does. I don’t think he has to change who he is because this is what got him here, but I think he’s got to possibly think of some situations that he’s been in and just try to learn from them. That’s really all you can do, so I don’t really critique anybody. I’m not critiquing him at all. That’s just my stance on it is when guys keep spinning off the front of your bumper that becomes an issue. I’m not a huge fan of that. I’ve been a part of it. I got turned at Atlanta getting run into from behind. It’s like, ‘How many times are you gonna keep doing this until you learn?’ So, we’ll see.”

Hocevar and Stenhouse did talk this week, and according to the driver of the No. 77, they may have buried the hatchet in their short-lived feud.

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Spike Claims Overall Honors At CTMP

AO Racing’s Dane Cameron took the lead with 14 minutes to go when Inter Europol Competition’s Tom Dillmann had a mechanical failure and crashed in turn 3 Sunday (July 13). From there, he rode around under yellow to win the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Grand Prix along with PJ Hyett. It is the team’s […]

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AO Racing’s Dane Cameron took the lead with 14 minutes to go when Inter Europol Competition’s Tom Dillmann had a mechanical failure and crashed in turn 3 Sunday (July 13). From there, he rode around under yellow to win the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Grand Prix along with PJ Hyett. It is the team’s first LMP2 victory in IMSA.

“Not really the way that we wanted to end the race,” Cameron told NBC Sports’ Matt Yocum in victory lane. “Honestly, I’m so proud of PJ. [His performance] was so phenomenal at the beginning. To lap half the class is incredible. We knew [winning] would be possible, but now we’re rolling.”

United Autosports’ Tom Blomqvist and Dan Goldburg ended up second, followed by TDS Racing’s Hunter McAlrea and Steven Thomas. They finished third on the road, but they were penalized due to an on-track incident and given a post-race drive-through penalty that dropped them to eighth.

TDS Racing’s penalty elevated Riley Motorsports’ Felipe Fraga and Gar Robinson to third overall. The second United Autosports ORECA 07 for Phil Fayer and Ben Hanley were fourth, while PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports’ Benjamin Pedersen and Rodrigo Sales were fifth.

AO Racing’s PJ Hyett started from the overall pole in “Spike.” While United Autosports’ Dan Goldburg had a slightly faster single lap, Hyett was able to pull out to a decent advantage early on.

Meanwhile, TDS Racing’s Steven Thomas, who started third, had an eventual start to his race. First, he spun exiting turn 9 while trying to pass Goldburg for second. Later on, he had contact with Wright Motorsports’ Elliott Skeer, nearly ripping the nose off of Skeer’s Porsche. He eventually had to make an unscheduled stop and dropped to 11th.

Following the first round of stops, there was trouble in Moss Corner. CrowdStrike Racing by APR’s George Kurtz ran in the back of Inception Racing’s Brendan Iribe, spinning both cars out. Pratt Miller Motorsports’ Chris Cumming and Riley Motorsports’ Gar Robinson were collected.

Everyone was able to continue, so the full course caution did not come out. However, both Kurtz and Cumming were forced to make unscheduled pit stops.

Hyett expanded his lead all the way up to 36 seconds when the race’s first full course caution came out 68 minutes into the race. Kurtz appeared to drop a wheel exiting turn 3. With the grass being wet after heavy rains earlier in the day, he lost control and went hard into the tires. Kurtz was able to get out of the car without assistance, but he was out on the spot.

During the caution, the LMP2 teams pitted to put their pros in the car. Cameron was able to turn in some of the fastest laps of the race after the restart in an attempt to get away from Blomqvist.

Behind Cameron, Dillmann was on the move. The defending race winner was able to get past Pedersen in lapped traffic, then made an aggressive move on Blomqvist at Moss Corner to take second. A lap later, Pedersen made a similar move on Blomqvist for third. McAlrea followed past into fourth.

No one could do the distance on fuel from the final restart. Dillmann was the first of the leaders to pit. Pedersen was next, but he was penalized for hitting one of his crewmembers, taking him out of the hunt.

Cameron was the last of the leaders to pit with 42 minutes to go, three laps after Dillmann. The stops were about equal, but Cameron got caught up behind slower traffic in those three laps. As a result, Dillmann beat Cameron out of the pits and took the lead.

Shortly afterwards, Forte Racing’s Mario Farnbacher slid off-course and hit the tires in turn 8 after contact from McAlrea to bring out the yellow. While Farnbacher was able to extricate himself from the tires and drive away, significant time was necessary to reset the tire barrier. McAlrea was given a drive-through penalty due to this contact, but was unable to serve it before the race ended, hence the post-race penalty.

The green came back out with 17 minutes to go. Dillmann had the lead and tried to drive away from Cameron, but trouble struck a couple of laps afterwards. The Inter Europol No. 43 appeared to suffer a mechanical failure that put him off the track and hard into the tires in turn 3.

Dillmann, who was going for back-to-back victories at CTMP, was able to get out of his car on his own, but ended up on the ground afterwards. He was eventually taken away on a stretcher, but gave the assembled fans a thumbs-up before he was loaded into the ambulance.

With the necessary barrier repairs taking up too much time, the remainder of the race ran behind the safety car. As a result, Cameron drove at a reduced pace to victory.

In GTD Pro, Paul Miller Racing’s Neil Verhagen started from pole in his BMW. He spent the first portion of the race slowly but surely driving off from Vasser Sullivan’s Aaron Telitz.

Verhagen led the race without issue until he stopped to hand over to Madison Snow. That resulted in a split pit strategy. AO Racing’s Klaus Bachler chose to stay out as long as possible.

The Kurtz crash occurred right after Bachler stopped for full service. As a result, everyone stopped under the yellow. Laurin Heinrich ended up in the class lead at the beginning of his time in the car.

Heinrich led until he made his final pit stop with 52 minutes to go. That gave the lead over to DragonSpeed’s Albert Costa.

Costa was on a fuel conservation strategy that would have likely forced him to stop with 10-15 minutes to go had the race gone green. However, the Farnbacher crash put the team in position to make their conservation strategy work. When Dillmann crashed, it locked in Costa and Giacomo Altoe into their first victory of the year.

Second went to Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports’ Nicky Catsburg and Tommy Milner. Bachler and Heinrich were third, followed by Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims in the second Corvette. Pfaff Motorsports’ Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli were fifth in their Lamborghini.

Vasser Sullivan’s Jack Hawksworth started from the GTD pole in his Lexus. On the opening lap, he was able to open a small gap over Winward Racing’s Russell Ward.

The key to Hawksworth being able to hold off Ward was being able to put Altoe in between himself and Ward. With Altoe serving as a blocker, Hawksworth was able to pull out to a seven-second lead.

Further back, Wayne Taylor Racing’s Danny Formal and Triarsi Competizione’s Onofrio Triarsi collided and spun in turn 9. Both drivers were able to drive away. Triarsi was given a drive-through penalty for causing the incident.

The pit stops surrounding the first caution of the race created a split strategy. Wayne Taylor Racing’s Trent Hindman was trying to go the full run from the yellow to the finish, while others stopped shortly after the restart for a splash of fuel.

As a result, Hindman ended with a 23-second lead over Farnbacher with the rest of the class further back. That gave him the ability to conserve some fuel, but he wasn’t going to make it to the finish without help.

Then, Farnbacher crashed and brought out the yellow. While his 20+ second lead was gone, it opened up the possibility of making it to the finish. Dillmann’s crash after the restart allowed Hindman to stretch his fuel to finish, giving himself and Formal their first WeatherTech victory together as teammates.

Unfortunately, the aforementioned incident on the first lap knocked the drink hose loose. Hindman had to drive an un-air conditioned Lamborghini for two hours with no water and was wiped out afterwards.

Ward and Philip Ellis finished second and expanded their points lead. Hawksworth and Parker Thompson were third, then DXDT Racing’s Alec Udell and Robert Wickens. The Heart of Racing’s Roman De Angelis and Casper Stevenson were fifth.

WeatherTech teams will take the next three weeks off. Next up on the schedule is the IMSA SportsCar Weekend at Road America for all four classes. The race will air exclusively on Peacock Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. ET.


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Pit road confrontation erupts after close call during Sonoma Cup race

In the middle of the NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma, things were getting heated between drivers and even pit crew members. Near the end of Stage 2, several drivers pitted early to gain track position ahead of the final stage. Ty Gibbs and Brad Keselowski were two of those drivers. Their pit stalls where right […]

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In the middle of the NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma, things were getting heated between drivers and even pit crew members.

Near the end of Stage 2, several drivers pitted early to gain track position ahead of the final stage. Ty Gibbs and Brad Keselowski were two of those drivers. Their pit stalls where right next to each other, and the tire carrier for Keselowski was already standing in the box as he prepared for the car to arrive.

Gibbs was ahead of Keselowski both on the track and in the pits, and as he approached his stall, he cut directly through the RFK Racing stall, getting extremely close to tire carrier, Telvin McClurkin.

McClurkin later told NASCAR on TNT that the tire in his hand got clipped by the car, twisting his wrist. However, he was able to carry on with his duties for the rest of the day.

Immediately after the incident, a furious McClurkin confronted crew members from the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Some words were exchanged, and it quickly escalated into some pushing and shoving between them.

RFK Racing later released video from their pit box, showing what happened to cause the scuffle. 

 

NASCAR reviewed the incident and felt there was no reason to penalize Gibbs as drivers are permitted to drive through (at most) three pit boxes when approaching their own, stating that the No. 54 did nothing wrong.

Gibbs went on to finish seventh while Keselowski ended the race in 11th.  “Going in, I have the right of way,” Gibbs told NASCAR on TNT, pointing out the orange lines in the pit stalls. “They’re on the wall for a reason. They jump for a reason. Those guys like to push it and that’s kind of the consequence you pay.”

 

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Shane van Gisbergen dominates Sonoma

Credit: Brittney Wilbur / NASCAR Digital Media After leading over 90 laps, Shane van Gisbergen wins back-to-back road courses. SVG secured two poles in a row with Chase Briscoe on the outside as they led the field to green. Immediately, SVG clears Briscoe. A little bit o contact between Bubba Wallace, Carson Hocevar, and Noah […]

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After leading over 90 laps, Shane van Gisbergen wins back-to-back road courses.

SVG secured two poles in a row with Chase Briscoe on the outside as they led the field to green. Immediately, SVG clears Briscoe.

A little bit o contact between Bubba Wallace, Carson Hocevar, and Noah Gragson as they went three-wide in turn 4.

William Byron passed Briscoe for second on lap 3, and on lap 4, Ross Chastain passed Briscoe for third.

On lap 12, Briscoe got back around Chastain by sweeping around him at turn 3. AJ Allmendinger and Christopher Bell also had slight contact on lap 12, turn 3, when Bell tried to go around Allmendinger. Bell eventually gets through.

Chastain loses a bit of momentum on lap 14, and Bell gets passed him for fourth. Ryan Blaney also looked to the inside of Chastain, but the door closed before he could get through.

In the closing laps of the stage, nearly 30 drivers pit, including the leader. Chastain takes the lead, and SVG comes out in second. 

Bell got on the inside of Briscoe and took the corner too hard, spinning a bit. Bell almost hit Allmendinger while trying to go the right way, but kept out of him to return to racing without a caution.

  1. No. 1 – Ross Chastain (Trackhouse Racing)

  2. No. 88 – Shane van Gisbergen (Trackhouse Motorsports)

  3. No. 23 – Bubba Wallace (23XI Racing)

  4. No. 47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Hyak Motorsports)

  5. No. 24 – William Byron (Hendrick Motorsports)

  6. No. 10 – Ty Dillon (Kaulig Racing)

  7. No. 19 – Chase Briscoe (Joe Gibbs Racing)

  8. No. 12 – Ryan Blaney (Team Penske)

  9. No. 54 – Ty Gibbs (Joe Gibbs Racing)

  10. No. 9 – Chase Elliott (Hendrick Motorsports)

Chastain and the couple of drivers that did not pit at the end of stage 1 dart into the pit lane.

Cole Custer and Katherine Legge have to drop to the rear after speeding on pit road.

On lap 30, SVG retakes the lead with Blaney on the outside. Blaney falls down the order as SVG cleared for the lead. Byron, Briscoe, Ty Gibbs, Allmendinger, and Chase Elliott all get through. 

Allmendinger spins off track at turn 2 on the following lap and just loses the back of the car. John H. Nemecheck also got spun out of 16th place at the start of the esses.

On lap 46, Daniel Suárez spins around after contact with Chastain. 

With five laps to go in the stage, SVG stretched his lead to over 3 seconds.

A few drivers start going into the pit lane with four to go. SVG and Briscoe pit with two to go. They come out in second and sixth. Kyle Larson takes the lead.

Fun fact: This is the first time Larson has led laps since the Coke 600 in May.

SVG passed him on the entry of turn 3, and they had brief contact. 

  1. No. 88 – Shane van Gisbergen (Trackhouse Motorsports)

  2. No. 5 – Kyle Larson (Hendrick Motorsports)

  3. No. 8 – Kyle Busch (Richard Childress Motorsports) 

  4. No. 23 – Bubba Wallace (23XI Racing)

  5. No. 47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Hyak Motorsports)

  6. No. 19 – Chase Briscoe (Joe Gibbs Racing)

  7. No. 10 – Ty Dillon (Kaulig Racing)

  8. No. 17 – Chris Buescher (RFK Racing)

  9. No. 12 – Ryan Blaney (Team Penske)

  10. No. 24 – William Byron (Hendrick Motorsports)

The drivers that did not pit at the end of stage 2 pit under the stage caution.

SVG and Briscoe lined up again for the restart on lap 60. Briscoe gets the initial jump, and they stay side by side through turn 3, and SVG takes the lead into turn 4.

Gragson gets shoved off at turn 3 and almost hits the tyre barrier, but gets out of the dirt. 

Blaney goes into the barrier after contact with Buescher, and the caution is called on lap 62. Wallace and Denny Hamlin were also spun around.

On lap 66, SVG and Briscoe led the way again, but this time, SVG had the better launch and cleared for the lead out of turn 2.

Elliott also fired up well, jumping up to fourth place.

On lap 74, Alex Bowman goes sideways after contact with Brad Keselowski in turn 7. Kyle Busch also spins from fifteenth while exiting turn 7.

Drivers start pitting with 30 laps to go. SVG pits on lap 84. Bell took the lead before pitting one lap later, and Larson took the lead. 

SVG retook the lead on lap 90.

With 15 laps to go, a caution is called for a wheel that goes down the track at turn 3, and it rolls all the way to turn 4. The tyre came from Cody Ware’s car.

Briscoe fakes a pit, but Elliott is the first driver to pit from third. 13 cars ended up staying out, including SVG and Briscoe.

It’s SVG and Briscoe back on the front row for the restart on lap 99. SVG gets the jump and almost clears Briscoe in turn 1, but doesn’t make it stick until turn 3.

Another caution is called on the restart lap after Gragson spun around and made contact with Ryan Preece. Larson, Wallace, Josh Berry, and Erik Jones were also involved in the crash.

The front row was as they were as they led the way with 7 laps to go. The two stayed door to door as Hocevar challenged Byron for fifth. 

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. went off track and hit the barrier. Caution flag out.

Once again, SVG and Briscoe led the way on lap 106, and SVG immediately cleared for the lead. Larson and Blaney go around, but no caution is called. Elliott was flying on the restart. 

Berry makes contact with Hocevar and spins him out from fifth on lap 107.

It’s been 26 years since someone has won three road courses in a row from pole. He won in Mexico City, he won in Chicago, and today, Shane van Gisbergen wins in Sonoma!

  1. No. 88 – Shane van Gisbergen (Trackhouse Motorsports)

  2. No. 19 – Chase Briscoe (Joe Gibbs Racing)

  3. No. 9 – Chase Elliott (Hendrick Motorsports)

  4. No. 71 – Michael McDowell (Spire Motorsports)

  5. No. 20 – Christopher Bell (Joe Gibbs Racing)

  6. No. 45 – Tyler Reddick (23XI Racing) 

  7. No. 54 – Ty Gibbs (Joe Gibbs Racing)

  8. No. 24 – William Byron (Hendrick Motorsports)

  9. No. 22 – Joey Logano (Team Penske)

  10. No. 8 – Kyle Busch (Richard Childress Motorsports) 

  11. No. 6 – Brad Keselowski (RFK Racing)

  12. No. 60 – Ryan Preece (RFK Racing)

  13. No. 21 – Josh Berry (Wood Brothers Racing) 

  14. No. 99 – Daniel Suárez (Trackhouse Motorsports)

  15. No. 7 – Justin Haley (Spire Motorsport) [FL]

  16. No. 17 – Chris Buescher (RFK Racing)

  17. No. 10 – Ty Dillon (Kaulig Racing)

  18. No. 16 – AJ Allmendinger (Kaulig Racing) 

  19. No. 48 – Alex Bowman (Hendrick Motorsports)

  20. No. 11 – Denny Hamlin (Joe Gibbs Racing) 

  21. No. 3 –  Austin Dillon (Richard Childress Racing)

  22. No. 34 – Todd Gilliland (Front Row Motorsports)

  23. No. 41 – Cole Custer (Haas Factory Team)

  24. No. 1 – Ross Chastain (Trackhouse Racing)

  25. No. 35 – Riley Herbst (23XI Racing) 

  26. No. 23 – Bubba Wallace (23XI Racing)

  27. No. 38 – Zane Smith (23XI Racing)

  28. No. 42 – John H. Nemechek (Legacy Motor Club) 

  29. No. 43 – Erik Jones (Legacy Motor Club) 

  30. No. 2 – Austin Cindric (Team Penske) 

  31. No. 78 – Katherine Legge (Live Fast Motorsports)

  32. No. 77 – Carson Hocevar (Spire Motorsports)

  33. No. 47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Hyak Motorsports)

  34. No. 51 – Cody Ware (Rick Ware Racing) +2 laps

  35. No. 5 – Kyle Larson (Hendrick Motorsports) +2 laps

  36. No. 12 – Ryan Blaney (Team Penske) +4 laps

  37. No. 4 – Noah Gragson (Front Row Motorsports) +11 laps

Next week is round 4 of the in-season challenge. Tune in for Dover on Sunday, July 20, at 14:00 EST (19:00 BST).



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Van Gisbergen takes the Cup drivers to school in Sonoma

Shane van Gisbergen from Auckland, New Zealand, took the NASCAR Cup drivers to school for the 2nd week in a row, leading 97 of 110 laps to win the Cup race at Sonoma Raceway. In a performance that echoed his road course mastery from seasons past, Shane van Gisbergen delivered yet another commanding victory, claiming […]

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Shane van Gisbergen from Auckland, New Zealand, took the NASCAR Cup drivers to school for the 2nd week in a row, leading 97 of 110 laps to win the Cup race at Sonoma Raceway.

In a performance that echoed his road course mastery from seasons past, Shane van Gisbergen delivered yet another commanding victory, claiming his third NASCAR Cup Series win on the 2025 season. The Kiwi sensation survived multiple late-race cautions to showcase his unparalleled skill on the twisting 1.99-mile layout during Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350.

It was van Gisbergen’s third Cup win of 2025 beating Chase Briscoe by 0.754s after a late caution.

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

No one had anything for him and he only lost the lead during pit stop stops. Van Gisbergen is now tied with three other drivers for the most Cup Series wins in 2025.

After starting on pole, van Gisbergen was absolutely dominant.

Van Gisbergen was so good that he even won the second stage of the race despite a late pit stop. After pitting with just over two laps to go in the stage, van Gisbergen was second to Kyle Larson on the last lap and easily passed the Cup Series champion for the stage win. Larson hadn’t pitted during the stage. That’s how much faster van Gisbergen was.

With wins in Mexico City and at the Chicago street course last week, van Gisbergen is tied with Larson, Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell as NASCAR’s win leaders this season. Those three drivers are legitimate title contenders.

The win at Sonoma made him the first driver since Jeff Gordon in 1998 and 1999 to win three consecutive road course races from the pole.

Chase Elliott rallied to third after a late pit stop. Michael McDowell placed fourth. Christopher Bell completed the top five.

Shane Van Gisbergen, driver of the #88 Red Bull Chevrolet, and Chase Briscoe, driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, lead the field on a pace lap prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway on July 13, 2025 in Sonoma, California. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)

Shane van Gisbergen

How was the heart rate there on all those final cautions and restarts?

SHANE VAN GISBERGEN: Yeah, it was pretty tough stuff. We had an amazing car. Chase Briscoe, what a great racer and gave me respect. Jumped the last one a little bit and it was pretty tense, but amazing. So stoked for Red Bull, Trackhouse, Chevy. I believe we had a really fun weekend here, some great races, and I hope everyone enjoyed that.

Five weeks ago this race team didn’t have a win. As it sits now you’re the No. 3 seed in the playoffs.

SHANE VAN GISBERGEN: Hard to believe that, isn’t it. I just have to thank these guys. We built up all year, got better and better, and now we need to keep getting better on the ovals and start proving some people wrong.

You’ve won championships, 81 Supercar wins over your career. You’ve done everything you could down there. How do you put into words what the last two years have meant to you?

SHANE VAN GISBERGEN: It means everything. That’s why I race cars. I had an amazing time in Australia, and then to come here and the last couple weeks or years actually has been a dream come true. I’ve really enjoyed my time in NASCAR. Thanks, everyone, for making me feel so welcome. I hope I’m here for a long time to come.

Chase Briscoe

Take us through that last one, Chase, because that was the one that I think was the closest for you to make that move.

CHASE BRISCOE: Yeah, for sure. The only opportunity I had was on the restarts. I never played basketball against Michael Jordan in his prime, but I feel like that’s probably what it was like. That guy is unbelievable on road courses. He’s just so good. He’s really raised the bar on this entire series.

Proud of the effort. I thought there was one restart I was maybe going to get clear of him, but truthfully even if I cleared him, he was probably going to pass me back by the end of the lap. Yeah, proud of the effort. We were a second-place car all day and obviously ended up second with it.

Yeah, I honestly don’t know what more I need. I feel like my car is extremely good, and I feel like every time I would run down Shane he would just pick up the pace himself and start driving back away. It was frustrating at times, but I was honestly happy with the effort. This is by far my worst racetrack. Kind of surprised myself truthfully.

We thought you might be able to get by him on one of the restarts. One of the stories of the day was just kind of managing tires. We saw some guys go well at the beginning of a run and then fade a lot. What was your plan today? Were you aggressive at the beginning or did you try to take it easy so you had something at the end?

CHASE BRISCOE: Yeah, definitely were just trying to maintain — the first initial start of the race, I didn’t do a good job of maintaining. I fell back to fourth and cost myself too much time trying to save tires.

But yeah, I thought other than that I did a really good job of just trying to stay disciplined and manage my stuff, and I felt like it paid off. I was typically the second best car. I just never had anything for Shane. I felt like he still had more left in the tank as well. But yeah, it was fun. We were slipping and sliding around all over the place. It’s fun when you can do that in these types of race cars. It was a really fun day behind the wheel.

Yesterday after you qualified second you were right behind SVG and you said, I had more in the tank there. You felt like you could have been closer to him in qualifying. One of the things I’ve noticed, I know you’ve won on road courses in Xfinity, but in the Cup Series it seems like you’ve stepped in this 19 car you’ve had a ton of pace at these road courses. Have you been working on something behind the scenes for the road courses?

CHASE BRISCOE: Yeah, I think the car, honestly. I don’t really feel like I’m doing a whole lot different. Certainly going into this week I was saying how this is my worst racetrack.

I felt like the 19 team did a really good job of just trying to show me little things that Martin did that made him excel here, and I just tried to replicate that. But for the most part, honestly, it’s just been doing my typical deal. The car has so much more pace and balance. So it makes it really enjoyable.

Just so honored and thankful that I get to drive this 19 car with Bass Pro Shops on the hood. I cannot thank Johnny Morris, J.P. Morris, the entire Toyota family, Bass Pro Shops family, and obviously Joe Gibbs Racing for giving me this opportunity because I am certainly having the time of my life right now. It’s fun running week in and week out in the Cup Series and feeling like you have a shot to go win.

Sonoma Cup Race Results

Fin Str No. Driver Team Laps Led Laps Status
1 1 88 Shane Van Gisbergen # Red Bull Chevrolet 97 110 Running
2 2 19 Chase Briscoe Bass Pro Shops Toyota 2 110 Running
3 13 9 Chase Elliott NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet 0 110 Running
4 15 71 Michael McDowell Project Zin/Gainbridge Chevrolet 3 110 Running
5 10 20 Christopher Bell Rheem Toyota 1 110 Running
6 8 45 Tyler Reddick Chumba Casino Toyota 0 110 Running
7 6 54 Ty Gibbs SAIA LTL Freight Toyota 0 110 Running
8 3 24 William Byron Valvoline Chevrolet 0 110 Running
9 22 22 Joey Logano Autotrader Ford 0 110 Running
10 17 8 Kyle Busch zone Chevrolet 0 110 Running
11 21 6 Brad Keselowski Castrol Ford 0 110 Running
12 20 60 Ryan Preece Body Guard Ford 0 110 Running
13 25 21 Josh Berry Eero Ford 0 110 Running
14 19 99 Daniel Suarez Freeway Insurance Chevrolet 0 110 Running
15 29 7 Justin Haley NationsGuard Chevrolet 0 110 Running
16 14 17 Chris Buescher BuildSubmarines.com Ford 0 110 Running
17 26 10 Ty Dillon Sea Best Chevrolet 0 110 Running
18 5 16 AJ Allmendinger Big Sipz Chevrolet 0 110 Running
19 9 48 Alex Bowman Ally Chevrolet 0 110 Running
20 16 11 Denny Hamlin ampm Toyota 0 110 Running
21 33 3 Austin Dillon Bass Pro Shops/Winchester Chevrolet 0 110 Running
22 35 34 Todd Gilliland Love’s Travel Stops Ford 0 110 Running
23 27 41 Cole Custer Autodesk/Haas Tooling Ford 0 110 Running
24 4 1 Ross Chastain Kubota Chevrolet 4 110 Running
25 28 35 Riley Herbst # Monster Energy Toyota 0 110 Running
26 30 23 Bubba Wallace Xfinity Mobile Toyota 0 110 Running
27 12 38 Zane Smith Michael Roberts Construction Ford 0 110 Running
28 18 42 John Hunter Nemechek Mobil 1 Toyota 0 110 Running
29 31 43 Erik Jones Dollar Tree Toyota 0 110 Running
30 24 2 Austin Cindric America’s Tire Ford 0 110 Running
31 37 78 * Katherine Legge e.l.f. Cosmetics Chevrolet 0 110 Running
32 23 77 Carson Hocevar Delaware Life Chevrolet 0 110 Running
33 34 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Real American Beer Chevrolet 0 110 Running
34 36 51 Cody Ware Mighty Fire Breaker Ford 0 108 Running
35 11 5 Kyle Larson HendrickCars.com Chevrolet 3 108 Running
36 7 12 Ryan Blaney Menards/Delta Ford 0 106 Accident
37 32 4 Noah Gragson Long John Silver’s Ford 0 99 Accident



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Chase Briscoe: ‘We were definitely the second-best car’

The setup for a breakout season and career year continued Sunday at Sonoma Raceway for Chase Briscoe. Photo courtesy of NASCAR Media/Getty Images After starting second in the Toyota / Save Mart 350, Briscoe collected nine stage points across the opening two stages, led twice for two laps and collected a runner-up finish to Shane […]

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The setup for a breakout season and career year continued Sunday at Sonoma Raceway for Chase Briscoe.

Photo courtesy of NASCAR Media/Getty Images

After starting second in the Toyota / Save Mart 350, Briscoe collected nine stage points across the opening two stages, led twice for two laps and collected a runner-up finish to Shane Van Gisbergen.

Briscoe, who posted his seventh Top-5 finish of the year, started side-by-side with SVG during late-race restarts, but couldn’t clear the No. 88 for the lead.

“I felt like every time I would get close, he would just start driving back away,” Briscoe said. “We were definitely the second-best car. I don’t really know what more I need – maybe a little bit a grip, but even if I had a little more grip, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to gain the speed that he had.”

Briscoe’s second-place effort moved the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to eighth in points, gaining one position. He is now the highest he has ranked in points at any point during a season — and at any point in his career after 20 Cup Series races during any of his prior seasons.

Before Sunday, Briscoe’s highest finish at the Northern California road course was a 13th-place finish in 2022.

“This is by far my worst race track, so to run second to him, it definitely means a lot, so proud of the day,” Briscoe said.

In terms of stats, Briscoe has already set personal bests in 2025 in the Top-5 finishes and poles (4) categories.

One more Top-10 finish will match the fifth-year driver’s best of 10 such finishes, set in 2022, and an additional victory will see Briscoe earn his first multi-victory season in the NASCAR Cup Series.

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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What drivers said after Sonoma NASCAR Cup race won by Shane van Gisbergen

Here is what drivers had to say after Sunday’s Cup race at Sonoma Raceway: Shane van Gisbergen — Winner: “This is amazing. This is why we go racing. I had a great time. It’s awesome to have Red Bull on the car this weekend. Trackhouse Racing gave me a great Chevrolet again. What a great […]

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Here is what drivers had to say after Sunday’s Cup race at Sonoma Raceway:

Shane van Gisbergen — Winner: “This is amazing. This is why we go racing. I had a great time. It’s awesome to have Red Bull on the car this weekend. Trackhouse Racing gave me a great Chevrolet again. What a great couple of weeks! Just to execute, make no mistakes, have great pit stops, great strategy and be able to hold them off there at the end – it’s incredible. Chase (Briscoe) was driving really well. We had a lot of fun there. … On the last restart, I thought he (Briscoe) jumped a little bit. I was just trying to do what I could to get in position in Turn 2. That last one, I had to give him a bit of rub, but that was it. I’m just over the moon.”

NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350

Shane van Gisbergen ties mark set by Jeff Gordon for consecutive road course wins from the pole with Sonoma victory.

Chase Briscoe — Finished 2nd: “I don’t know if I really saw everything (Shane van Gisbergen) had, truthfully. I felt like every time I would get close; he would just start driving back away. We were definitely the second-best car. I don’t really know what more I need – maybe a little bit a grip, but even if I had a little more grip, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to gain the speed that he had. But overall, great day for the Bass Pro Shops Toyota. This is by far my worst race track, so to run second to him, it definitely means a lot, so proud of the day.”

Chase Elliott — Finished 3rd: “I’m not sure if there was dirt across the track or what, but it happened a couple of times throughout the day. I was obviously pushing really hard. I just got sliding and ran out of road, but I don’t know that it would have been enough anyways, to be honest. I wasn’t near as good that run than the run before. I’m not really sure why that was, but the call by Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) was great. It was nice to be on offense and give ourselves a shot. I wish I could have made it happen there. I was trying, but I just couldn’t get going like we needed to there at the end. We had a really fast No. 9 NAPA Chevrolet all day. I thought we were really solid. We probably needed a little bit more to get Shane (Van Gisbergen) and Chase (Briscoe).”

Michael McDowell — Finished 4th: “We needed a little bit more pace out of our No. 71 Gainbridge Chevrolet. We had Project Zin on the car today, which was really cool. Qualifying really hurt us. I think we had decent pace, but we weren’t fast enough to get around the good cars. We got off strategy there, and that didn’t work. Thankfully, we caught a caution and we were able to tires on our Chevrolet and fight our way back. 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. Last weekend (at Chicago), we had a car that could win. Today, we were a little off. We’ll keep building on it.”

Christopher Bell — Finished 5th: “We worked really good there as Toyota teammates and (Tyler Reddick) was just talking there about that last lap. I don’t know what else he does, or I do – we are racing for a top-five, a position there, and I took the lane, and he chose not to ship me. I appreciated that. Tires versus no tires, offense versus defense there at the end of the last lap. Tough to race respectful whenever you are out like that, and I get it.”

Tyler Reddick — Finished 6th: “Today was a bit of a struggle honestly for the Chumba Casino Toyota. We just kind of went backwards – we slid back throughout the whole day and didn’t really get stage points. We just kept fighting all day long. We put tires on there and was able to get through the chaos. We had a shot at fifth, just didn’t want to use Christopher (Bell) up on that last corner, so we settled for sixth.”

Ty Gibbs — Finished 7th: “Overall, we had an okay day. Our SAIA No. 54 Camry – we needed to make some adjustments, and I need to do a better job. We had an okay day.”

Kyle Busch — Finished 10th: “We had to come from behind all day with our zone Chevrolet. On the initial start, our car had no drive or rear lateral any direction. After falling to the back, Randall (Burnett) and the guys made the call for major chassis adjustments to get the rears working. Those adjustments definitely helped, just wished I could have had that same adjustment again without giving up the track position. We kept working on the balance and in Stage 3, the car was the best it had been. It was simply avoiding wrecks at the end. Proud of the No. 8 team for pushing through and getting a top-10 finish.”

Ty Dillon — Finished 17th: “It was a rough couple of laps there. Alex (Bowman) and I race really clean. I told him – man, if it wasn’t for the million dollars, I probably wouldn’t have done that, but I had to. It’s been an incredible run for this No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet team. We’ve worked so hard for this opportunity. I can’t thank Matt Kaulig, Chris Rice, Ty Norris and Kaulig Racing for giving me the opportunity to shine again. I’ve worked so hard to get here and I’m just grateful. All of our partners that are on board, this has just been so much fun. We’re going to give it all we’ve got at Dover; put pressure on the guys. I think you’ve seen through this that our team doesn’t quit. I saw the No. 48 there at the end, and I knew it was our opportunity to race hard and go get him. Just proud of this team’s effort.”

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

Austin Dillon Finished 21st: “It was a hard battle for the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops / Winchester Chevrolet team. We didn’t really have a lot of speed this weekend, but we did make it better. We made some adjustments mid-race, and then those cautions came out. I had to go through the grass and lost around 15 spots. We got a couple back there at the end, but it’s not what we wanted. We’ll keep digging. We’ve had some good Chevrolet’s the last couple of weekends. Unfortunately, this week, we weren’t as good as we’ve been, but we’ll get better.”

Cole Custer — Finished 23rd: “Definitely a hard-fought day. I felt like we had speed in the car, but we just had a few things go wrong for us and it didn’t work out. I feel like we’re moving in the right direction of having cars that can go out there and compete, it’s just a matter of doing all the little things right.”





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