Shane van Gisbergen restarted fourth on the ultimate restart of Saturday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
However because the drivers in entrance of him went vast into flip 1, van Gisbergen stayed even-keeled and calmly pointed his No. 9 Chevrolet, received on the gasoline and drove away to win the Centered Well being 250.
The victory is van Gisbergen’s fifth street course win within the O’Reilly Sequence in 10 street course begins. He’ll look to earn his seventh Cup Sequence street course win on Sunday.
The victory is the 106th in O’Reilly Sequence competitors for JR Motorsports.
“Good to lastly execute,” van Gisbergen advised CW Sports activities. “We had an superior day. Pit crew was superior. I questioned what was going to occur on that final restart. I sort of sucked the 41 in and he wiped everybody out for me.”
Van Gisbergen began second and led 30 laps on Saturday en path to his first win in any NASCAR division at COTA.
Notable outcomes
Austin Hill completed runner-up, with Sammy Smith, Jesse Love and Corey Day rounding out the highest 5. Brent Crews, William Sawalich, Justin Allgaier, Ross Chastain and Brennan Poole accomplished the top-10.
Polesitter Connor Zilisch led early however completed twenty first after experiencing brake points. He received again into the top-10 within the closing laps, however wrecked after contact with Corey Day.
Different notable finishers embrace Atlanta winner Sheldon Creed in eleventh, Taylor Grey in twelfth, Brandon Jones in fifteenth, Ryan Sieg in sixteenth and Patrick Staropoli in twentieth.
Sam Mayer, Carson Kvapil and Rajah Caruth have been battling inside the highest 10 late earlier than an incident relegated them to finishes of 14th, nineteenth and thirty first, respectively.
