Shane van Gisbergen

With a total of 80 wins and 46 pole positions, van Gisbergen is 4th on the all-time wins list in the Supercars Championship.

He has won the Bathurst 1000 three times, in 2020, 2022, and 2023.

Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989), also known by his initials SVG, is a New Zealand racing driver.

He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 97 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing in partnership with Trackhouse Racing, part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 16 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Kaulig Racing, and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 28 Chevrolet SS for Pinnacle Racing Group.

He is known for his time racing in the Supercars Championship, last driving the No. 97 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 car for Triple Eight Race Engineering.

After competing in Motocross, Quarter Midgets and karts from 1998 to 2004, van Gisbergen placed third in the 2004/2005 New Zealand Formula First Championship and won the associated Rookie of the Year award.

Van Gisbergen had previously obtained a Speedsport Star of Tomorrow Scholarship.

A win in 2005/06 New Zealand Formula Ford Championship was accompanied by another Rookie of the Year title and was followed by a second-place finish in 2006/07 Toyota Racing Series.

Driving for Team Kiwi Racing, van Gisbergen became the 200th driver to start a race in a V8 Supercar at the Jim Beam 400 at Oran Park Raceway in Round 8 of 2007.

Having impressed in his 2007 races, van Gisbergen was picked up by Stone Brothers Racing in 2008.

He was in the lead in the 2009 Bathurst 1000 until pitting on lap 108 when his car would not start, resulting in a 1:14 pit stop and losing him a number of positions in the race.

At Pukekohe, van Gisbergen became the first New Zealander to lift the trophy, named in honour of Jason Richards, who died of cancer in 2011.

He went on to win eight races that season and won the championship.

He continued with the team for five seasons until 2012, securing a best of fourth in the championship in 2011.

In late 2012, he announced he would be leaving V8 Supercars but in January it emerged that he was moving to Tekno Autosports at the start of the 2013 season.

Van Gisbergen faced legal action for breaking his contract with Stone Brothers Racing.

In 2014, van Gisbergen co-drove to the BNT NZ Supertourers Hankook Super Series championship with primary driver Simon Evans.

Shane won 7 of the 9 races in a total of the Endurance rounds including sweeping the entire Fuchs 500 weekend at Pukekohe Park Raceway with winning race #3 in spectacular fashion driving from 1 lap down.

In 2021, van Gisbergen won the New Zealand Grand Prix held as part of the Toyota Racing Series.

The event is normally held for a global field however was restricted to a New Zealand-only field due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with van Gisbergen entering as a wildcard.

Van Gisbergen ran a Brabham BT62 in the South Island Endurance Series at Euromarque Motorsport Park in 2023, with co-driver and car owner Dwayne Carter.

However, a right rear wheel came off on lap 2 and the car was sidelined for 87 laps in total at the end of the event, after Carter ran over 30 laps with no problems before retiring it from the race later on.

Van Gisbergen turned no laps in the 3 hour race.

The move to Tekno proved fruitful, with van Gisbergen finishing runner-up in the championship in 2014.

Van Gisbergen has also shown a strong pace at the series' most famous race, the Bathurst 1000.

A near-identical issue repeated itself in the 2014 edition, where with 10 laps to go – he stalled and the starter motor failed, costing him almost a certain victory and he finished 16th.

Van Gisbergen had started the 2014 race from pole position, his first at the event.

He is a three-time Supercars Champion, winning driver's titles in 2016, 2021, and 2022.

Van Gisbergen also races in GT Racing, winning the 2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour alongside Alvaro Parente and Jonathon Webb in the McLaren 650S GT3, winning the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, finishing 3rd overall in the 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge and finishing in second place in the 2015 24 Hours of Daytona in the GTD class.

He won in his NASCAR Cup Series debut at the 2023 Grant Park 220 in Chicago driving the No. 91 for Trackhouse Racing, becoming the first driver to win in their NASCAR Cup Series debut since IndyCar driver Johnny Rutherford in 1963, becoming only the seventh to do so in series history and the first driver to do it in the modern era of the sport.

He also became the first New Zealander to win a race in the Cup Series.

He and Paul Morris are the only drivers to have won all three major car racing events at Mount Panorama: the Bathurst 1000, Bathurst 6 Hour and Bathurst 12 Hour.

In 2016, van Gisbergen moved to the Triple Eight Race Engineering team, alongside two of the most successful drivers in series history; Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes.

Van Gisbergen won his first race for the team at the Tasmania SuperSprint in 2016.

Alexandre Prémat joined van Gisbergen as co-driver in the Enduro Cup.

The pair won the 2016 Enduro Cup, including three second-place finishes and Prémat's first race victory in the championship at the 2016 Castrol Gold Coast 600, and became the first non-Australian drivers combination to win.

In 2017, Whincup and van Gisbergen paired up again under the Red Bull Holden Racing Team banner.

At Adelaide, he started his title defence with a double-victory, but finished 4th in the championship.

In 2018, van Gisbergen won both Race 1 and Race 2 at Adelaide, driving a Holden Commodore ZB.

At Townsville, van Gisbergen won at race 18 after Whincup marked the 10th running at race 17.