Winners, losers after Sonoma NASCAR Cup race won by Shane van Gisbergen
WINNERS
Shane van Gisbergen — He scored his third victory in the last five races — all on road courses. He is tied with Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell for most victories this year. SVG earned his fourth career Cup win Sunday and it came in his 34th series start. No driver has reached four wins so quickly since Parnelli Jones did so in his 31st career Cup start at Riverside, California, in January 1967.
Dustin Long,
Trackhouse Racing — This organization has won four of the last eight Cup races. The streak started with Ross Chastain's victory in the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend and includes all three of Shane van Gisbergen's wins.
Chase Briscoe — His runner-up result is his best finish on a road course. Until Sunday, he had never run a lap in the top five in four previous Sonoma starts.
Chase Elliott — His third-place finish is his fourth top-five result in the last five races.
Joey Logano — His ninth-place finish snaps a five-race stretch without a top-10 result.
Kyle Busch — His 10th-place gives him back-to-back top-10 finishes.
Ty Dillon — He finished 17th but bumped Alex Bowman out of the way on the last corner of the last lap to finish ahead of Bowman and advance to the semifinals of the In-Season Challenge. Dillon was the last seed in the 32-driver field and is now in the final four. He's two races from the $1 million prize.
LOSERS
Noah Gragson — He finished last in 37th, marking the third time in the last five races he's placed 30th or worse.
Ryan Blaney — He finished 36th and was eliminated due to an accident. Blaney has failed to finish seven of the 20 races this season, the most in the series.
Carson Hocevar — He placed 32nd. It is the fourth time in the last six races that he's finished 29th or worse.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Fox Sports
an hour ago
- Fox Sports
U.S. Men Will Face Top 25-Ranked Australia, Ecuador in October Friendlies
The United States men's national team's pre-World Cup schedule is coming into ever-sharper focus. The U.S. Soccer Federation on Monday announced that coach Mauricio Pochettino's squad will face Australia and Ecuador in a pair of October exhibition games. Both matches will be held stateside; the Americans will take on the Ecuadorians Oct. 10 at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas. Four days later, they'll host the Socceroos in the Denver, Colorado suburb of Commerce City. Combined with the previously announced September friendlies against South Korea and Japan, the U.S. will meet four of FIFA's Top-25-ranked national teams this fall. All four have also already qualified for the 2026 World Cup, which is being co-hosted by the U.S. and neighbors Canada and Mexico. The U.S. still has two more dual-match FIFA fixture windows to fill, in November and next March, before Pochettino names his final 26-player World Cup roster. The Americans are also expected to play a pair of pre-World Cup tuneups before they kick off the main event in Los Angeles on June 12. No-25 Ecuador, one of three South American nations who have already punched their ticket to the next World Cup, joining Brazil and defending champion Argentina, is led by midfielder Moises Caicedo. Caicedo, who plays for English Premier League club Chelsea, helped the Blues win the FIFA Club World Cup on Sunday. The U.S. and Ecuador have met on 15 previous occasions, with each side posting a record of 5W-5L-5T. The two last met in 2016, when the U.S. eliminated La Tricolor in the quarterfinals of the Copa América Centenario. The U.S. hasn't faced the 24th-ranked Aussies since way back in 2010, a 3-1 win in South Africa in both countries' final tune-up before that year's World Cup in South Africa. The trip to Austin marks the sixth time the Americans have visited the Texas capital since 2021. They are a perfect 6-0 there, including last month's 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia in the Concacaf Gold Cup group stage. The U.S. is also perfect at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, going 3-0 at the home of MLS franchise Colorado Rapids. Seats for the Australia match start at just $35. The get-in price for the Ecuador game is $45, with tickets for both contests on sale to the general public starting on July 18. Doug McIntyre is a soccer reporter for FOX Sports who has covered United States men's and women's national teams at FIFA World Cups on five continents. Follow him @ ByDougMcIntyre . recommended Item 1 of 1 Get more from the FIFA Men's World Cup Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more in this topic
New York Times
2 hours ago
- New York Times
Shane van Gisbergen's disruptor-level NASCAR success opens the door to more
Imagine you are a NASCAR team owner today with a multi-car organization, and some of your cars are currently out of the playoffs with six races remaining in the regular season. You've watched as Shane van Gisbergen has won three road course races in a month to leap your cars in the standings, get his team into the playoffs, and prepare to cash in on the accompanying extra money he'll get from finishing in the top 16 of the Cup Series points. Advertisement Heck, the guy is third in the playoff standings as a rookie. He's tied for the series lead in wins this year! So what do you do as an owner? Would you be able to avoid being a prisoner of the moment? Because it sure would be tempting to allow van Gisbergen's success to change the calculation for how you run a race team. Trackhouse Racing owner Justin Marks, always with a mind on being the 'disruptor,' surely has done it this time. He figured out a way to game the NASCAR playoff system in a way no one else has. While we knew there was an opportunity for a road course ringer to win their way into the playoffs — AJ Allmendinger has long been proof of that — no road racer with this type of dominance has come along until now. You can say it's the perfect combination of van Gisbergen's background (touring cars in Australia which are a distant cousin to NASCAR's Next Gen) and timing (the Next Gen is a spec car, which gives van Gisbergen equal equipment to his competitors). But van Gisbergen hasn't just won a single race. He's won three. And no matter what playoff format NASCAR comes up with, there's always going to be a spot in the field for multi-time race winners. From winless to one of the top seeds in the #NASCARPlayoffs. Talk about a swing for @shanevg97! — NASCAR (@NASCAR) July 14, 2025 Even if they shrunk the field to 12 drivers, he'd be in. And back in the traditional 10-race Chase, NASCAR tweaked the format to allow for a 'wild card' spot (the highest driver outside the points with the most wins). So van Gisbergen, with three wins, is a playoff driver no matter how you slice it. If you don't think teams notice this, you're lying to yourself. 'This is showing the relevance of mastering (road course) races (in) NASCAR,' former open-wheel and NASCAR driver Max Papis posted Sunday night on X. 'This will open (the) door to a variety of racers that might never had a (shot) at it.' Advertisement That's how it always works in NASCAR. A short-track racer finds success in the Cup Series, and suddenly that's the hot area to look for prospects. An open-wheel driver successfully makes the transition and then team owners give someone else a try. Sprint car drivers show their adapability to stock cars and suddenly everyone races to find the next star from the dirt world. Maybe now Supercars drivers are the answer. Except it's not that simple, and it doesn't give van Gisbergen the proper credit for what he's achived. Instead of just assuming it's all because of his background or experience level, why not point to his unbelievable skill? The bottom line is team owners can hire other drivers in a similar mold, but there might be only one SVG. Because of the opportunity for drivers like van Gisbergen — who was outside the top 32 in points last month and missed the cut for the In-Season Challenge bracket — to get into the playoffs win a single victory, road course races have lately been viewed as 'wild card' events similar to superspeedways. Except … nah. Not anymore, with van Gisbergen such a heavy favorite. The playoff-bubble drivers are quite fortunate that he has won three in a row, because it has prevented someone like a Michael McDowell or Ty Gibbs from nabbing a spot and moving the cutoff line upward. Check out the bubble now: Tyler Reddick is 149 points up on the cutoff and is the only 'safe' driver on points. Chris Buescher (+34), Alex Bowman (+32) and Bubba Wallace (+3) could all see their tentative spots wiped away if there were new winners from outside the top 16. But how many more winners will there be? Let's rank the final six regular-season races by upset potential: 1. Daytona (Aug. 23): Very likely. You almost have to pencil in an upset winner here and assume that will be another new playoff entry. Advertisement 2. Watkins Glen (Aug. 10): About 50-50. Again, not really a wild card anymore, but if van Gisbergen doesn't win again, it does open the door for McDowell, Gibbs, Buescher or Allmendinger. 3. Richmond (Aug. 16): Not likely. It should be a driver from one of the big teams. Then again, remember Austin Dillon in this race last year? 4. Iowa (Aug. 3): Not likely. Probably a Christopher Bell/Kyle Larson/Ryan Blaney type win from someone already in the top 10 of the standings. 5. Dover (Sunday): No way. There hasn't been an upset at Dover in the last 20 years. 6. Indianapolis (July 27): Slim to none. Not with every team bringing their A-game for a crown jewel race. So in reality, we're looking at maybe two more different winners? That's two spots available on points, which would lock Reddick in before Daytona and make the race between Buescher and Bowman — and possibly Wallace if he can string a few good weeks together — for the last playoff position. Brad Keselowski last week argued there are too many road courses in NASCAR. 'NASCAR was successfully built as a primarily oval racing series,' Keselowski wrote on X. 'IMSA was built as the primary road course series in North America. IMSA will always do road racing better than NASCAR and that's OK.' He's right. For a series that had traditionally had two per year (Sonoma and Watkins Glen) as novelties, to have expanded to six in less than a decade has felt like overkill — especially with the IMSA-like Next Gen car, which doesn't put on particularly compelling shows on those circuits. But what is the sweet spot for NASCAR road racing? Keselowski said two to four is 'plenty enough.' We'd lean toward four, because that would perhaps cut the Roval and Circuit of the Americas (despite being a beautiful track in a great market) and leave NASCAR with: Sonoma and Watkins Glen (the traditional NASCAR road races), a street race (Chicago, San Diego, etc.) and an international race (Mexico City, Montreal, somewhere in Europe). Any more than that starts to give road-course fatigue, when in reality most NASCAR followers are oval fans first who will tolerate the occasional right turns — as long as it's not overdone. And right now feels like it's too much. The two teams suing NASCAR for being an illegal monopoly, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, filed another request for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to retain their charter status for this weekend's race at Dover Motor Speedway. NASCAR has until Wednesday to respond, and a ruling by the district court judge could come before the Dover weekend begins. Advertisement With a federal appeals court overruling an earlier preliminary injunction that allowed the teams to race with charter status for 2025 while their lawsuit is pending, their combined six entries would have to race as 'open' cars at Dover, barring a legal victory this week. Further adding urgency to the matter is NASCAR's letter to the teams informing them there is interest to reassign or sell the charters, which puts the teams at risk of going out of business should they lose their charter status permanently. NASCAR has said in court it does not want to be forced into a contractual relationship with teams it does not want to do business with, which describes its current feelings about 23XI and Front Row. While the teams have committed to running as 'open' for the remainder of the season and paying the financial difference out of pocket, being non-charter teams does not appear to be a viable model for NASCAR organizations in the long run. There's simply too much money at stake. Plus, Reddick could become a free agent as soon as this week if the charters go away; a clause in his contract requires the team to provide him with a chartered entry. Of course, another preliminary injunction from the district court would buy more time and possibly get the teams through to the end of the season and the Dec. 1 trial date. But without that order, the teams will be facing a different reality beginning at Dover. (Top photo of Shane van Gisbergen celebrating Sunday's win: Trinity Machan / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
🗓️ América de Cali v Tigres scheduled in Copa Betplay
América de Cali debuted with a goalless draw against Llaneros FC in their debut in the Liga Betplay 2025-II, and are already in Brazil to face Bahía in the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana. Meanwhile, they are also waiting for their debut in the Copa Betplay 2025, whose day and time have just been confirmed. Advertisement América de Cali faces Tigres FC In the pre-quarterfinal phase, the teams that qualified for the semifinal quadrangulars of the Liga Betplay enter the Cup to face those who played semifinal quadrangulars in the second division. América, fifth qualifier, will face Tigres FC. The first leg will be played at Pascual Guerrero on July 29 at 8:20 P.M. and the return leg, a week later, on Tuesday, August 5, at 8 P.M, at the Metropolitano de Techo. The eight winners of this phase will advance to the quarterfinals of the Copa Betplay, where they will cross with the qualifiers from phase 1A. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.
