Shane van Gisbergen has spent just two years in NASCAR, but he’s already seen enough to notice a culture shift. Coming from Supercars, he entered the Cup and Xfinity Series with the same approach that made him a champion. Since he came from a very different world, he had patience, precision, and respect for equipment. But as the season unfolded, SVG began to realize that not everyone races with the same rulebook.

Lately, drivers and insiders have been discussing how the younger field is performing in the Xfinity Series. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has called it “a different kind of intensity.” Meanwhile, even Cup Series veterans like Denny Hamlin have pointed to how late-race chaos has become routine. For SVG, that difference hit him hard. And when he sat down on Dale Jr’s podcast, his tone said

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