Shane van Gisbergen brands being a racer as “a pretty special job”
Ex-Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen has shared his true feelings about being a professional racer.
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Shane van Gisbergen, image via Motorsport.com
The 2025 NASCAR season will mark the full-time Cup series debut of Shane van Gisbergen with Trackhouse Racing. SVG had a strong 2024 in the Xfinity Series, as he won three races in the season alongside three poles, for Kaulig Racing that earned him a P12 finish in the second-tier championship chase.
The three times Supercars Champion, who has raced in some of the top motorsport’s series and events in the world, feels blessed to have the opportunity to be a professional racer. In a recent interview with his Australin sponsor QUAD LOCK Shane van Gisbergen talked about his true feelings about being a racer.
He admitted that though it’s not easy being a racer, racing is really fun and it’s a special job. SVG pointed out that over the years he has had tough times and fun times as a racer, like many racers. Now he is again having a great time in NASCAR as he dreamed and is pretty thankful about how everything is playing out.
It’s not easy, being a race car driver. It’s really fun, it’s a pretty special job, but it can be tough too, you know. There are periods, you see it a lot in drivers… the wave of how you’re going is pretty rough sometimes. Yeah, I had some bad times. But thankfully, recently, it’s been pretty good.
Shane van Gisbergen said via QUAD LOCK.
Shane van Gisbergen shares his approach towards racing
In the same interview SVG also talked about how he is approaching races at the moment, in the late half of his career. He pointed out that racing in NASCAR is pretty volatile with his performance having up and downs. So, he doesn’t let him caught up with it and would always stay down to earth over it to cherish racing more.
Now I just try and race for fun. And especially in NASCAR, I try and get not too caught up in it. Like you have a bad week and then you have another race next week. So you get over it pretty quick and move on. Contrary to that, you have to stay grounded when you have a good one as well. Because it can be brought down to earth pretty quick too.
Shane van Gisbergen said.
The comments from SVG shows how much loves being a racer and how he cherishes each moment of it. Going into the 2025 season, he would be looking into making a mark in the premier stock car racing championship and it will be interesting see how she could perform.
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