Shane van Gisbergen’s rookie season has been anything but ordinary. Being the only rookie to enter the playoffs after beating Riley Herbst, he will be awarded the Rookie of the Year title after the season. In just a handful of months, the three-time Supercars champion has stormed onto the NASCAR Cup Series scene, redefining what dominance on road and street courses looks like. Each outing has reinforced the same narrative: whenever the Cup Series calendar turns to a road course, the rest of the field is racing for second place. But despite this dominance, there’s one driver who isn’t very convinced with his road master’s rising stardom.

SVG’s meteoric rise has left the garage grappling with a new hierarchy. Street layouts and technical tracks once known for chaos now seem firmly in SVG’s

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