Shane van Gisbergen

Shane van Gisbergen
Van Gisbergen on the 2011 Sydney 500 podium.
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1989-05-09) 9 May 1989 Auckland, New Zealand
V8 Supercar Record
Car number	97
Current team	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Series championships	1 (2016)
Races	275
Race wins	12
Podium finishes	49
Pole positions	9
2015 Championship position	1st (3368 pts)

Shane van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989) is a professional motor racing driver from Auckland, New Zealand. Van Gisbergen currently drives the #97 Holden VF Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering in the Australian-based Supercars Championship. Van Gisbergen has also forged a successful GT career, including multiple entries in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series for McLaren with Von Ryan Racing and Garage 59. Van Gisbergen, with Álvaro Parente and Jonathon Webb, also won the 2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour for Tekno Autosports.^[1]

New Zealand racing history

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.^[2] Van Gisbergen had previously obtained a Speedsport Star of Tomorrow Scholarship. A win in the 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 the 2006/07 Toyota Racing Series.^[2]

In 2014, Shane co-drove to the BNT NZ Supertourers Hankook Super Series championship with primary driver Simon Black. Shane won 7 of the 9 races in 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.^[3]

V8 Supercars

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. Driving for Team Kiwi Racing, Van Gisbergen finished the first race in 20th position before improving to 13th for race 2 but then dropped down to 23rd in race 3. Having impressed in his 2007 races, Van Gisbergen was picked up by Stone Brothers Racing in 2008. He would continue with the team for five seasons until 2012, securing a best of fourth in the championship in 2011. In late 2012, he announced a retirement from V8 Supercars, before controversially moving to Tekno Autosports for the start of the 2013 season. The move to Tekno proved fruitful, with Van Gisbergen finishing runner-up in the championship in 2014.

Van Gisbergen has also shown strong pace at the series' most famous race, the Bathurst 1000. 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. 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 certain victory. Van Gisbergen had started the 2014 race from pole position, his first at the event.

In 2016, Van Gisbergen moved to the successful 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, which was also Holden's 500th win in championship history. He went on to win 8 races that season on the way to clinching the championship with a race to spare

GT racing

Through his connections with Tekno Autosports sponsor Tony Quinn, Van Gisbergen's first foray into GT racing was a guest co-drive in Quinn's team in the 2013 Australian GT Championship. In 2014, he entered both the 24 Hours of Daytona and the Bathurst 12 Hour for the first time, the latter again in partnership with Quinn, this time in a McLaren. His Daytona entry was with Alex Job Racing, where he finished 26th overall and sixth in the GTD class. He returned to Daytona in 2015 and 2016 with the team.

Having impressed in previous outings, in 2015 he entered the Blancpain Endurance Series in a McLaren 650S GT3 run by Von Ryan Racing. Racing in conjunction with his V8 Supercars commitments, he was forced to miss one round due to a date clash, however achieved two victories in the four races he entered. The team was dissolved after the 2015 season, and for the 2016 season, Van Gisbergen moved to McLaren's new Garage 59 team.^[4] He will once again miss the final round of the championship at the Nürburgring in Germany due to the Sandown 500 V8 Supercar race being held on the same weekend. As of 25 June 2016, Van Gisbergen leads the 2016 Blancpain Endurance Series having won the 3 Hours of Monza, finishing 6th in the 3 Hours of Silverstone before winning the 1000 km Paul Ricard on 25 June.^[5] During qualifying for the 2016 24 Hours of Spa on 29 July, Van Gisbergen claimed provisional pole position in the Garage 59 McLaren. Unfortunately, an electrical fault during the Top 20 Superpole qualifying session saw him fail to complete a lap.^[6]

Through his McLaren and Tekno Autosports connections, he drove one of Tekno's factory-supported McLaren 650S GT3s at the 2016 Bathurst 12 Hour. In qualifying on Saturday, Van Gisbergen set the fastest ever officially recorded lap of the Mount Panorama Circuit to achieve pole position.^[7] He went on to set the fastest ever race lap on the way to securing victory alongside Álvaro Parente and Jonathon Webb.^[1]

Career results

Complete Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2014	Von Ryan Racing	Pro Cup	McLaren MP4-12C GT3	MNZ	SIL	PAU	SPA Ret	NUR	NC	0
2015	Von Ryan Racing	Pro Cup	McLaren 650S GT3	MNZ 15	SIL 1	PAU	SPA 29	NUR 1	4th	54
2016	Garage 59	Pro	McLaren 650S GT3	MNZ 1	SIL 6	PAU 1	SPA 31	NUR	1st	68

Complete Intercontinental GT Challenge Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	1	2	3	Rank	Points
2016	Tekno Autosports	AP	McLaren 650S GT3	BAT 1			2nd*	27
	Garage 59	Pro			SPA 931	SEP

* Season still in progress.

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	No.	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2007	021	Team Kiwi Racing	Ford BF Falcon	John McIntyre	DNF	148
2008	9	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford BF Falcon	Jonathon Webb	DNF	91
2009	9	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford FG Falcon	Alex Davison	13th	161
2010	9	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford FG Falcon	John McIntyre	21st	158
2011	9	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford FG Falcon	John McIntyre	6th	161
2012	9	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford FG Falcon	Luke Youlden	12th	161
2013	97	Tekno Autosports	Holden VF Commodore	Jeroen Bleekemolen	11th	161
2014	97	Tekno Autosports	Holden VF Commodore	Jonathon Webb	16th	158
2015	97	Tekno Autosports	Holden VF Commodore	Jonathon Webb	8th	161
2016	97	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden VF Commodore	Alexandre Prémat	2nd	161

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2013	VIP Petfoods Racing	Matt Kingsley Klark Quinn Tony Quinn	Porsche 997 GT3-R	A	267	3rd	3rd
2014	Darrell Lea	Andrew Kirkaldy Klark Quinn Tony Quinn	McLaren MP4-12C GT3	A	296	4th	4th
2016	Tekno Autosports	Álvaro Parente Jonathon Webb	McLaren 650S GT3	AP	297	1st	1st

Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	Alex Job Racing	Cooper MacNeil Leh Keen Shane Lewis Louis-Philippe Dumoulin	Porsche 911 GT America	GTD	656	26th	8th
2015	Alex Job Racing	Cooper MacNeil Leh Keen Andrew Davis	Porsche 911 GT America	GTD	704	12th	2nd
2016	Alex Job Racing	David MacNeil Cooper MacNeil Leh Keen Gunnar Jeannette	Porsche GT3 R	GTD	695	28th	13th

Complete Spa 24 Hours results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	Von Ryan Racing	Tim Mullen Robert Bell	McLaren MP4-12C GT3	Pro Cup	40	DNF	DNF
2015	Von Ryan Racing	Robert Bell Kévin Estre	McLaren 650S GT3	Pro Cup	457	29th	13th
2016	Garage 59	Robert Bell Côme Ledogar	McLaren 650S GT3	Pro	513	31st	19th

Gallery

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  The Ford FG Falcon of van Gisbergen at the 2010 Clipsal 500 Adelaide.

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  The Ford FG Falcon of van Gisbergen at the 2011 Clipsal 500 Adelaide.

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  The Ford FG Falcon of van Gisbergen at the 2012 Clipsal 500 Adelaide.

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  The Holden VF Commodore of van Gisbergen at the 2013 Clipsal 500 Adelaide.

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  van Gisbergen is the current lap record holder at the Mount Panorama Circuit, having set a time of 2:01.5670 in a McLaren 650S GT3 during the 2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour.

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