Shane van Gisbergen will make his second NASCAR Cup Series start at Iowa Speedway this Sunday competing in the Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol. Last year at the 0.875-mile short track, van Gisbergen was credited with a 31st-place finish after contact with the wall in the second stage set him back.
“It’s about confidence,” said SVG. “North Wilkesboro (short track) was a race that the metric helped us, but it also shows that if we can start up front, we can stay there.
“That really puts the focus on qualifying, I need to be better, and we need to make our cars better. It’s just awesome to race at the front and keep ourselves there. It shows that everyone is executing and when it all comes together, we can do it.”
Van Gisbergen enters this weekend at Iowa 15th in the Cup Series driver standings, 57 points above The Chase cutline..
“It’s pretty awesome. To be honest, I was stoked after making those leaps above the cutline. It’s been great to get a lot of points on these ovals. As a team we aren’t exactly where we want to be. We want to make the most of the bad days and try and score as many points as possible.
“On our bad days we still have to be 15th to 20th and that’s not a good day for points you know. Sometimes you have to suck those days up and accept it, even though you want to be better. There are four races to go and our focus at the moment is points every week.”
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