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NASCAR Cup Sonoma
Shane van Gisbergen extends winning streak with an intense NASCAR Cup victory at Sonoma
Driving the No. 88 Red Bull Chevrolet for Trackhouse, SVG dominated the NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma
Nick DeGroot
Edited: Jul 14, 2025, 2:52 AM
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Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Photo by: Meg Oliphant / Getty Images
Shane van Gisbergen started Sunday's Cup race from Sonoma Raceway on pole position, and he stayed there for most of the day. SVG has now won the last three road/street courses on the schedule, securing Red Bull's first win as a primary sponsor in the Cup Series since the 2011 season.
"Yeah, it was pretty tough stuff," said SVG, who led 97 of 110 laps. "We had an amazing car. Chase Briscoe, what a great racer and gave me respect. Jumped the last one a little bit and it was pretty tense, but amazing. So stoked for Red Bull, Trackhouse, Chevy. I believe we had a really fun weekend here, some great races, and I hope everyone enjoyed that."
Watch: Cabernet Shane! No. 88 driver collects third Cup win of 2025 at Sonoma
Van Gisbergen was cruising out front when Cody Ware lost a wheel with 15 laps to go, setting up a dramatic sprint to the finish. SVG chose to stay out on older tires, and 13 other drivers did the same.
Chase Elliott led the way among the drivers who pitted for fresh rubber, but his forward progress was hindered by a series of cautions, burning up several laps.
Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Photo by: Meg Oliphant / Getty Images
A crash from Noah Gragson and a spin into the tire barriers by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. both forced restarts, but in both situations, van Gisbergen remained in form control of the race.
Elliott got all the way up to third while Chase Briscoe finished exactly where he started -- second. Michael McDowell and Christopher Bell rounded out the top five with Tyler Reddick, Ty Gibbs, William Byron, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch filling out the rest of the top ten.
Stage 1 and 2
Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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At the start of the race, things were mostly clean as SVG drove off with the lead. However, he and most of the field chose to flip the stage, short-pitting before the scheduled caution.
His teammate Ross Chastain took another path, staying out and earning his first stage win of the year. Despite pitting, van Gisbergen still managed to end the stage in second place.
Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Photo by: Chris Graythen - Getty Images
As the second stage got underway, there was some more contact throughout the pack, with A.J. Allmendinger and John Hunter Nemechek both going for a spin.
SVG again chose to pit from the lead while Kyle Larson stayed out to try and win the stage. However, that didn't work out for him as van Gisbergen ran him down and passed him for the stage win.
Stage 3
Ryan Blaney, Team Penske Ford
Photo by: Chris Graythen - Getty Images
The final stage was the wildest of all as Ryan Blaney got sent into the dirt by Chris Buescher, getting stuck on a hill off-track and causing the first caution for an incident.
At the same time, both Bubba Wallace and Denny Hamlin spun. And while tensions were rising on the track, it was also getting heated in the pit lane as the RFK Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing pit crews got into a small scuffle.
The final round of green-flag pit stops began with about 30 laps to go, but van Gisbergen waited until 26 laps to go to make his final stop.
He continued to lead for the remainder of the race, despite multiple restarts where he had to fend off Briscoe.
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Cla Driver # Manufacturer Laps Time Interval Pits Points Retirement 1 S. van Gisbergen TrackHouse Racing 88 Chevrolet 110
2:54'55.034
5 59 2 C. Briscoe Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 110
+1.128
2:54'56.162
1.128 6 44 3 C. Elliott Hendrick Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 110
+2.254
2:54'57.288
1.126 7 35 4 M. McDowell Spire Motorsports 71 Chevrolet 110
+3.451
2:54'58.485
1.197 7 33 5 C. Bell Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 110
+5.108
2:55'00.142
1.657 6 32 6 T. Reddick 23XI Racing 45 Toyota 110
+5.484
2:55'00.518
0.376 7 31 7 T. Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing 54 Toyota 110
+5.554
2:55'00.588
0.070 7 32 8 W. Byron Hendrick Motorsports 24 Chevrolet 110
+5.913
2:55'00.947
0.359 6 36 9 J. Logano Team Penske 22 Ford 110
+6.513
2:55'01.547
0.600 7 28 10 K. Busch Richard Childress Racing 8 Chevrolet 110
+6.890
2:55'01.924
0.377 7 35 11 B. Keselowski RFK Racing 6 Ford 110
+7.699
2:55'02.733
0.809 7 26 12 R. Preece RFK Racing 60 Ford 110
+9.523
2:55'04.557
1.824 7 25 13
J. Berry Wood Brothers Racing
21 Ford 110
+11.220
2:55'06.254
1.697 6 24 14 D. Suarez TrackHouse Racing 99 Chevrolet 110
+11.230
2:55'06.264
0.010 7 23 15 J. Haley Spire Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 110
+11.437
2:55'06.471
0.207 7 23 16 C. Buescher RFK Racing 17 Ford 110
+11.487
2:55'06.521
0.050 6 24 17 T. Dillon Kaulig Racing 10 Chevrolet 110
+11.988
2:55'07.022
0.501 8 29 18 A. Allmendinger Kaulig Racing 16 Chevrolet 110
+12.289
2:55'07.323
0.301 7 19 19 A. Bowman Hendrick Motorsports 48 Chevrolet 110
+12.339
2:55'07.373
0.050 7 18 20 D. Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Toyota 110
+12.516
2:55'07.550
0.177 9 17 21 A. Dillon Richard Childress Racing 3 Chevrolet 110
+12.821
2:55'07.855
0.305 7 16 22 T. Gilliland Front Row Motorsports 34 Ford 110
+12.822
2:55'07.856
0.001 7 15 23 C. Custer Haas Factory Team 41 Ford 110
+13.372
2:55'08.406
0.550 7 14 24 R. Chastain TrackHouse Racing 1 Chevrolet 110
+13.659
2:55'08.693
0.287 7 23 25 R. Herbst 23XI Racing 35 Toyota 110
+13.998
2:55'09.032
0.339 7 12 26 B. Wallace 23XI Racing 23 Toyota 110
+14.776
2:55'09.810
0.778 7 26 27 Z. Smith Front Row Motorsports 38 Ford 110
+15.163
2:55'10.197
0.387 6 10 28 J. Nemechek Legacy Motor Club 42 Toyota 110
+15.521
2:55'10.555
0.358 7 9 29 E. Jones Legacy Motor Club 43 Toyota 110
+17.300
2:55'12.334
1.779 7 8 30 A. Cindric Team Penske 2 Ford 110
+17.612
2:55'12.646
0.312 10 7 31 K. Legge Live Fast Motorsports 78 Chevrolet 110
+25.770
2:55'20.804
8.158 8 6 32 C. Hocevar Spire Motorsports 77 Chevrolet 110
+27.221
2:55'22.255
1.451 9 5 33 R. Stenhouse Jr Hyak Motorsports 47 Chevrolet 110
+42.066
2:55'37.100
14.845 7 17 34 C. Ware Rick Ware Racing 51 Ford 108
+2 Laps
2:55'13.344
2 Laps 9 3 35 K. Larson Hendrick Motorsports 5 Chevrolet 108
+2 Laps
2:56'02.157
48.813 8 11 36 R. Blaney Team Penske 12 Ford 106
+4 Laps
2:49'48.469
2 Laps 8 6 Accident 37 N. Gragson Front Row Motorsports 4 Ford 99
+11 Laps
2:31'31.038
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