{"id":250719,"date":"2026-06-30T04:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/shane-van-gisbergen-holds-off-chase-briscoe-wins-nascar-cup-race-at-sonoma\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:22:18","slug":"shane-van-gisbergen-holds-off-chase-briscoe-wins-nascar-cup-race-at-sonoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/shane-van-gisbergen-holds-off-chase-briscoe-wins-nascar-cup-race-at-sonoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen holds off Chase Briscoe, wins NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chase Briscoe gave Shane van Gisbergen the biggest challenge any driver has given the New Zealand native on a road course in recent years, but van Gisbergen held off the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to win Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Briscoe gained on SVG in the closing laps, but slipped just enough in turn 10 on the final lap to allow van Gisbergen to hold on. It&#8217;s the second year in a row that van Gisbergen and Briscoe finished 1-2 at Sonoma.<\/p>\n<p>The victory is the eighth of van Gisbergen&#8217;s Cup Series career, his second of 2026 and his second at Sonoma. It also completes a weekend sweep for van Gisbergen, who won Saturday&#8217;s NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series race as well. \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What a day,&#8221; van Gisbergen told TNT Sports. &#8220;These guys did an amazing job turning this car into a winner. 19 was coming. Pretty special win. Chase was really good. Couple more laps and we would&#8217;ve had a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Briscoe, polesitter and Stages 1 and 2 winner Ty Gibbs, Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell rounded out the top five, with Ryan Blaney, Connor Zilisch, Ryan Preece, Michael McDowell and Alex Bowman completing the top 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Notable results<\/h2>\n<p>Other notable finishers include Carson Hocevar in 11th, Chase Elliott in 17th, Bubba Wallace in 22nd, Joey Logano in 24th and Daniel Suarez in 31st.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin took over the series points lead despite a 26th-place finish after Tyler Reddick finished last (36th) with power steering issues. It&#8217;s the first time all season that a driver other than Reddick has led the standings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/articles\/shane_van_gisbergen_holds_off_chase_briscoe_wins_nascar_cup_race_at_sonoma\/s1_13132_44005908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Briscoe gave Shane van Gisbergen the biggest challenge any driver has given the New Zealand native on a road course in recent years, but van Gisbergen held off the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to win Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway.\u00a0 Briscoe gained on SVG in the closing laps, but slipped just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}