Shane van Gisbergen

Shane van Gisbergen
Shane van Gisbergen in 2020
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	(1989-05-09) 9 May 1989 (age 32) Auckland, New Zealand
Related to	(Father)
Supercars Championship career
Car number	97
Current team	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Championships	2 (2016, 2021)
Races	442
Wins	54
Podiums	136
Pole positions	36
2021 position	1st (2414 pts)*

Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver who competes in the Repco Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 97 Holden ZB Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering.

Van Gisbergen has also forged a successful GT career, including a number of 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]

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^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

Supercars Championship[]

van Gisbergen on the 2011 Sydney 500 podium

van Gisbergen at the 2012 Bathurst 1000

van Gisbergen at the 2013 Clipsal 500 Adelaide

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 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. 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. 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 a certain victory and he finished 16th. Van Gisbergen had started the 2014 race from pole position, his first at the event.

van Gisbergen (right) and his teammate Jamie Whincup (left) at the 2016 Sydney SuperSprint

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. Alexandre Prémat joined van Gisbergen as co-driver in the Enduro Cup. The pairing went on to win 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 become the first non-Australian drivers combination to win. 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 and he admitted the occasion got the better of him after crossing the finish line. He went on to win 8 races that season on the way to clinching the championship with a race to spare.

van Gisbergen at the 2017 Sydney Motorsport Park

In 2017, Whincup and van Gisbergen joined again under the Red Bull Holden Racing Team banner. At Adelaide, he started his title defence with a commanding double-victory, and remained in contention during the campaign but he finished 4th in the championship.

van Gisbergen took his first victory of 2018 at the Sydney SuperNight 300.

In 2018, van Gisbergen won both Race 1 and Race 2 at the Adelaide, driving a Holden Commodore ZB. At Townsville, van Gisbergen won at race 18 after Whincup marked the 10th running at race 17. On August 4, van Gisbergen won the Sydney SuperNight 300, the championship's first night race in 21 years, after a Safety Car ignited a thrilling final stint battle between Scott McLaughlin and the three Triple Eight Holdens. At Tailem Bend, van Gisbergen dominated the inaugural race at The Bend Motorsport Park, taking a near lights-to-flag win in Race 22. On September 16, at Sandown, Van Gisbergen finished 2nd alongside Earl Bamber, who is a double Le Mans 24 Hours winner. Van Gisbergen managed to controversially escape a penalty for spinning his wheels during a pit stop at the Auckland SuperSprint at Pukekohe.

van Gisbergen during practice at the 2021 Mount Panorama 500

At Newcastle, van Gisbergen was handed a 25-second post-race penalty, which saw his Saturday win in Newcastle stripped. Stewards confirmed the time penalty on Sunday morning following Saturday night's investigation into an alleged refueling breach at his third pitstop, which was taken under the safety car and dropping to fifth in the race result. Scott McLaughlin was declared the winner of the race. Van Gisbergen finished second at race 31 and in the points standings.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic plagued Supercars season, he won the Bathurst 1000 with Garth Tander in what would be the final race for Holden after the manufacturer was closed by GM, marking the end of a historic period of Australian Motorsport.

GT racing[]

van Gisbergen recorded the first win for McLaren at the Bathurst 12 Hour.

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.

The BMW M4 F82 of Shane Smollen, Rob Rubis and Shane van Gisbergen at the 2021 Bathurst 6 Hour

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.^[6] 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. Van Gisbergen won the 2016 season with Côme Ledogar and Rob Bell having won the 3 Hours of Monza and the 1000 km Paul Ricard despite skipping the last round at the Nürburgring due to a clash with his Supercars Championship commitments.^[7]

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.^[8] 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[]

Supercars Championship results[]

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

Complete Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup results[]

Complete Intercontinental GT Challenge Series results[]

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

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results[]

Complete Bathurst 1000 results[]

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2007	Team Kiwi Racing	Ford Falcon BF	John McIntyre	DNF	148
2008	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford Falcon BF	Jonathon Webb	DNF	91
2009	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Alex Davison	13th	161
2010	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford Falcon FG	John McIntyre	21st	158
2011	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford Falcon FG	John McIntyre	6th	161
2012	Stone Brothers Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Luke Youlden	12th	161
2013	Tekno Autosports	Holden Commodore VF	Jeroen Bleekemolen	11th	161
2014	Tekno Autosports	Holden Commodore VF	Jonathon Webb	16th	158
2015	Tekno Autosports	Holden Commodore VF	Jonathon Webb	8th	161
2016	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore VF	Alexandre Prémat	2nd	161
2017	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore VF	Matthew Campbell	5th	161
2018	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	Earl Bamber	5th	161
2019	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	Garth Tander	2nd	161
2020	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	Garth Tander	1st	161
2021	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	Garth Tander	18th	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
2017		Craig Baird Maro Engel	Mercedes AMG GT3	AA	283	DNF	DNF
2018		Côme Ledogar Craig Lowndes	McLaren 650S GT3	APP	119	DNF	DNF
2019	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Jamie Whincup Craig Lowndes	Mercedes-AMG GT3	APP	312	4th	4th
2020	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Jamie Whincup Maximilian Götz	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	PRO	314	3rd	3rd

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
2017	Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing	Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette Thomas Jäger	Mercedes-AMG GT3	GTD	373	48th	21st

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

Complete 12 Hours of Sebring results[]

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2017	Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing	Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette	Mercedes-AMG GT3	GTD	132	44th (DNF)	21st (DNF)

Complete V8 SuperTourer results[]

Bathurst 6 Hour[]

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2021	Prestige Connex	Shane Smollen Robert Rubis	BMW M4	X	120	1st	1st

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