DBC Reacts To Shane van Gisbergen's Post Race Comments | Door Bumper Clear
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- After he won on Sunday, SVG made a comment that the "top-10 Supercar drivers could come and do what he did," which led to some controversy on social media. DBC gave their takes on how they took that remark.
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SVG was playing himself down, not insulting the Nazcar drivers.
In fact he was very complimentary to the other drivers.
Absolutely!
@@thatguy.8932 Yes i agree
Humble
Right on
💯%, if think his point was lost in translation. He didn’t mean all the top 10 he meant any of the top 10 …. meaning any one of them and that he’s not particularly special. That’s why he’s special 🤩🏁
Not only is this skewing SVG’s comments wildly, it’s also insanely disrespectful to him and the Supercars drivers. SVG earned that win and what he meant is that any of the top 10 supercars drivers could manage that in his position. If you’re offended by an outsider coming in and beating the series regulars, that’s a personal issue.
I want to like this comment but it has 97 likes which seems fitting.
Agreed. Real bad take/ look by DBC here.
Yep. . . . .
@@etmccaus DBC has a real bad look full stop.. 😄
Mostert won at Spa on the weekend... From pit lane start...
There's nothing to be offended about. If you're a talented race car driver then you're a talented race car driver and SVG showed that. No one complained when AJ Foyt, Mario Andretti, Tony Stewart, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kyle Larson or anyone else who drove different styles of race cars win in them. Brett just needs to give SVG his props for whooping the Cup drivers asses and stop getting mad when things don't go like he thinks they should
I took it as just being "it could've been any one of us in this situation on this course. I just happened to be the one who got the chance to do it"
One hundred percent correct. There's a lot of butthurt people out there. AJ says these guys can't "jump into " an xfinity car and do this. Ron Fellows did just that when AJ was in short pants.
Bingo
Shane's an extremely humble bloke and very passionate about Aussie/Kiwi racers. Just his way of dapping them up.
That's exactly what he meant
Excalty what Shane said..!!
At the last V8 Supercars race the entire 26 car field was separated by 8 tenths of a second in qualifying, I think that shows how competitive, and close in talent the drivers are. So for SVG to say the top ten could do what he did is pretty accurate.
Shane was simply paying respect to his colleagues back here. Given the right opportunity and circumstance they would be competitive. Names like Cameron Waters and Brodie Kosteki, Will Brown and Chaz Mostert. Brodie has spent time over there in ARCA I believe so he's raced on ovals. And he is currently leading the series here and beating SVG on pace. Shane is simply one of the best drivers on the planet. Period. Just ask Max Verstappen. And if SVG says someone can drive id listen if I were you. Don't forget he is sitting on the opposite side of the car, and shifting with the other hand. Ridiculous talent. Try and find the Sandown race from a couple of years ago where he was buried in the pack and raced to the lead with a broken collarbone. I'm in the Ford camp here and it's hard seeing him so dominant but he's a generational talent which is due respect. He's also one of the most aggressive and intimidating drivers I've ever seen, whilst at the same time being respectfuland fair. If he does go there, I'm pretty you guys are gonna love his style
As a Kiwi and someone who has followed the Supercars for over 20 years (I was at the Hamilton 400 the day SVG won his first race) I can say with certainty that this comment sums it up perfectly.
Also, any other answer to this question would have been taken poorly by the Aussie motorsport media.
@JC-ds8ng SVG was simply being humble toward his guys. The comment is being taken out of context.
Maybe he was telling the guys back here in V8SC that the gap and learning curve - on road courses at least - won't be that large and to take a serious look at Nascar, and leave Oz.
Remember he drove on the OTHER SIDE OF THE CAR, he was changing gear with the opposite hand. We run roght hand drive, nascar is left hand drive
SVG said he was holding back because the car runs different.
He also said on a oval he wouldn't be good cause he just doesnt have the experience.
He's just one of those drivers that just gets it
He is a natural talent...Only one way to find out...and see if he moves to Nascar next year. I think it would be a mistake..not that he couldn't win its just his series is a way better culture for him then the US.
And this dude said he couldnt handle an H pattern gearbox😂
Brett irrelevant as usual
@@Boxscot49obviously doesn’t know much about v8 Supercars history
@@passinggear we will have to wait till 2025 coz he is contracted for next year. Would love to see him do a couple of oval races and heaps of testing so he is up to speed from his first full time race. Wonder what the reaction would be if he finished his first full season near to top. He is a freak at ssoo many different types of racing. He got 2nd in his first rally!!, has won sprint cars, drift races and would win a burnout in the right car. 🇳🇿😁🇦🇺
Brett Griffin taking offense from a comment. Ironic.
He’s really being a baby about all this.
They need to remove him from the podcast already.
These guys are ruining Dirty Mo.
He’s the biggest complainer I’ve ever seen, the only one I can get with regularly is TJ.
He can one hell of an opinionated jerk and he thinks if he says louder than everyone else it makes its right
From an NZers point of view he was talking about how competitive the ozzie boys would be in the race. Definable not a diss
From an Aussie supercars fan I totally agree. The last 20 years has had a mixture of AUS/NZ champs. Murphy, Scotty Mac, SVG and hopefully Andre is next.
Purely from a street circuit point, I don't understand why nascar commentators have a problem with our top 10.
Let's see how the best nascar racer will fare at Bathurst, Sandown, Tailem Bend, Pukekoheh or Gold Coast.
@@sonor285the Pukekohe track is no more
Totally agree with you, the old Kiwis are humble as they think better of there mates lol not good to blow your own horn.
I love that Garage 56 at Lemans humbled the indurance crowd and then a V8 supercar driver did the same to NASCAR for a new street course. It’s only better for the sport… and SVG just meant he’s nothing special, there’s many like him, but I think he’s just being humble.
How did G56 humble anyone at Lemans. It was a prototype car racing as a demonstration, against cars with a balance of performance and very tightly regulated rules.
@@wesmanpipes9430 the day before qualifying it was gonna get the white flag every-time it came near another car like it was a slow moving vehicle. Also was going to start at the very back or pit lane… it started n the middle because it was too fast. Didn’t use air jacks either and yet their stops were on pace or faster… also it’s an “innovative car” not a prototype…
@@H3110NU Its a prototype car or a one off, regardless of what they call it. Lemans opens up a spot every year. Who cares how fast it is against GT cars. They have strict regulations regarding weight and power and the G56 did not. You dont think the big manufacturers in the GT class or LMP classes could destroy what they brought if the rules allowed.
Theres a reason when Porsche brought out the 919 Evo Hybrid it blew seconds off laptimes, once power, weight, fuel, and aero were no longer enforced.
It finished 39 of 62. So not exactly humbling for having no restrictions.
It might have looked like a nascar but it wasn't a nascar running under nascar rules .. they basically could do what ever they wanted which was stupid. The only way u could call the G 56 car a nascar is if it run to strict nascar rules. It wasn't a nascar which to me defeat purpose of even taking that car. Worst mistake they didn't let Shane drive it ... Hilarious 😂
Well i would be backing SVG to win at Watkins Glen 🇦🇺
Marcos Ambrose seemed to do pretty well there right from the word go.
And that was when the cup cars were very different animals to what he was racing in Australia.
🇳🇿
When you come from a country where you race for 1000km around a track like Mt Panorama, Bathurst up to speeds near of 200mph in the dry/rain, it teaches you how to cope with a wide range of skill sets that make it possible for one to adapt quickly to new surroundings and stresses.
What SVG was saying is there are 10 guys in Supercars that have the same skill set (and experience in Street Courses) that could have run a good race (not necessarily win) like he did.
No disrespect to the great Nascar drivers intended, and by his own admission SVG did say he was a bit wary of oval racing as the dynamics, techniques and skill sets required to be a oval racer are a lot more different to what he's used to and would love the chance to get into it and learn as much as he can possibly after his final season with the V8 Supercars next year.
Yeah, I understood to the comment as meaning how competitive the ozzies and NZers would be in the race
Same.
Agree, the Aussie V8 drivers have the circuit racing experience and especially street circuits. The real comparison of skill is how an Aussie v8 driver would fair on an oval, where the NASCAR drivers have perfected their craft.
@@UR_HR the real comparison of skills would be a suite of tracks and cars, then add the points up after. Just saying the real comparison of skill is putting Aussie/NZ drivers on an oval isn’t anywhere near a real comparison. It’s like me saying the real comparison would be US drivers driving a V8 Supercar at Bathurst. Something I’d like to see I’d add.
No reason to think he was wrong about this. He was in a completely different league at the end of that race. This wouldn't have happened at Martinsville, but at this specific street race, there's no reason to think that the cup guys would beat the supercar guys.
Gizzer was not just fast, he was racing clean.
Yes he was. Had there been double file restarts, I'm not sure he would have gotten the same courtesy. I think he'd have been Kimied.
Not at all, I was surprised at how clean he raced. He realised the other drivers were racing for points, so didn't want to ruin it by bumping them into the wall. Being respectful is a rarerity for SVG.
He loves to tag and bump cars out of his way.
Dude, what he meant was any of the top 10 drivers could have done the same on that street race due to the fact that the NASCAR drivers hadn't raced a street race before and thats all they do in the V8 Supercars.
Exactly! No disrespect at all. Fair dinkum!
We have plenty of race circuits as well as street and hybrid circuits like Townsville where the Supercars are racing this weekend.
wrong. it's not all street races
People seem to forget NASCAR drivers are using "Daddies money" to race. Whereas V8 Super cars learn the hard way. AJ & Stewart both have stated today's NASCAR drivers are not the best in breed, just best in greed.
He was being humble with this comment and he was humble during the whole post race interview, something some nascar racers and fans should really take as a lesson!
Mate, as a kiwi I was truely humbled for my fellow countryman by the way the other four of the top five drivers in that race talked about the Giz. Kyle Busch knew he was good being an ex team mate at Daytona, but the way they all said he put on a show/driving clinic. Those guys did not expect that, there was no no sour grapes there with them fellas. Kyle Larson in particular was extremely gracious, I for one was really impressed with the way 2 through 5 conducted themselves in the post race comments. Legends all.
Wel” said
Saying that Australian Supercar drivers couldn’t handle xfinity cars is a joke. And yeah no alot of these guys could come to the states and do well in these road course races cause they’ve literally been driving cars just like the cup cars around road courses their entire careers and you saw how SVG absolutely schooled Haley at the end. Nobody in the cup series would have even thought to make those moves.
Haley didn't think so, Well unless he thought a 5 car length was all he needed.
Yup, you were in the mirror, no need to make you disappear this close to victory
As a Aussie Another fact about SVG - he is literally in a race car every weekend. Rally , GT, Drifting plus his V8 Supeecar Drive. He can adapt to any car insanely quick because he is allways out of his comfort zone. 🇦🇺.
Nascar is make all the right moves from Lemans and Project 91 putting the sport under the international spotlight. Well done . Lets face it if your a American, New Zealander or Australian. We all love V8 Racing 🤜🤛
Between the Audio quality of this episode and Brett’s Twitter and comments this week, DBC is becoming less of a priority of mine sadly
The show has been terrible lately. I was a huge fan last season but it seems like something is going on with this crew.
Your just lucky the race ended at 75 or he would of most probably lapped the field
😅🤣😂 I was thinking the same thing. Had it gone onto 💯 laps, given daylight and the track drying out, I'd go to the bank and put $1000 for him to lap the field and win, and doing it cleanly.
Bring him back for Watkins Glen
I'd say the Top20 in SuperCars could come over and do extremely well. Like mentioned in this video, even support drivers in the SuperCars series could probably do well (just like Owen Kelly previously).
The special thing about Shane though, is that he is probably more versatile than most of the other SuperCar drivers. He can run D1 Drift, Rally, and even R/C model cars FFS. He is a special talent.
That said, if Shane does decide to make the full time switch into NASCAR, his adaptability will be tested on the Oval tracks. I mean this is an obvious statement to make, but one that Shane will see as a fantastic challenge. And I'm sure the American drivers will want to give him a warm welcome on the Oval tracks too. Can't wait.
SVG kinda seems like Australia's Kyle Larson - jump in ANYTHING and instantly be fast and competitive
I will say, the oval thing is interesting. On one hand, you see talented drivers that have never raced on an oval come into IndyCar and often be very competitive; but, man, the list of drivers that have never raced an oval and come into NASACAR and been competitive, that's a VERY short list. It's interesting how NASCAR ovals really do seem to be their own animal, it seems like it's its own skill set.
He's ran heaps of dirt oval and isn't afraid of rubbing so he'll be fine after the second race
you forgot open wheelers, he's the nz gp winner, i reckon there a challenge should be done, top nascar drivers vs v8 supercar, wont happen cause nascar drivers might have to go around some counters in the wet
SVG didn't say it to be disrespectful, he was just downplaying his talent, Kiwi's aren't comfortable being the centre of attention. With that said, there's probably 5 Supercar guys that could do something similar to what you saw in Chicago.
Brett insulted SVG farrrr more than SVG insulted anyone lol! SVG is basically Jimmie Johnson in SuperCars I wasn't shocked at all to see him win espically at a Street Course track
I watch a lot of V8 Supercars. I'm with SVG on this one, as much as I like the NASCAR talent. I'm amazed with NASCAR drivers complaining about the car and the Aussies seem to be loving it.
They mainly complain from a safety standpoint. It has gotten better and continues to get better, but we just had a legend in Kurt Busch, who was an advocate of how this current car drives, retire because of a concussion from wrecking at Pocono. This car doesn’t absorb energy unless it’s not completely slammed into the wall because the clips have little to no give. Now in terms of racing, I’d have to at least half that number SVG put out. Look at Jenson Button, smooth sailing race until he had to pit. The change in distance wouldn’t have helped all the 10 drivers he’s thinking in his head. SVG is a special top 1% talent and we see how he dominates the Supercars. If you replace him with Will Davison or even a Cam Waters, I don’t think you get the same outcome like what we got this weekend. This doesn’t embarrass the Cup series drivers imo, but half of the drivers in Cup do need to improve immensely. Put Broc in the Wendy’s #42 and that car will at least finish 15th for sure rather than 25th
Brett is a 🤡. I'd like to see a rotating third host along TJ and Freddie. Jamie Mac and Jeff Burton would make this show so much more listenable with guys like them instead of Brett.
I don't think that's what he was insinuating at all. I think what he was saying is that the top 10 guys could come over and be on pace in these cars.
people would understand what he means if they watched V8 Supercars, it is a very competitive class of racing
Get over it
They have been racing road/street courses for years
Now let’s see if he (svg) can race an oval
I bet he can
Trackhouse needs to bring SVG back for an Oval, just want to see what happens. I think he will surprise everyone how well he does. He won in a sprint car about a month after he debuted, he’s won in damn near every discipline he’s competed in. (WRC he has a podium but no wins yet). TJ is too dismissive of his talent, and Brett is, as usual, a whiner.
His tyre management is typically very good and he also has experience in a variety of different race categories outside his full time racing in supercars. I think nascar drivers are phenomenal with oval racing so I wouldn't expect him to be near the top quickly. But I could see him towards the end of his first full season or early second season get into the top 10.
High speed oval slipstreaming is a specific skill and would take SVG at least a rookie year to adapt..
I really want one of you guys to have a look at svg full resume , he has accomplished heaps
Brett and knowing what he's talking about before saying it are incompatible tbf
@@theseanie9958mmhmm, and I'm still waiting on Haley to get close enough to punt SVG.
He was the first to say that he would have a huge amount of work on an oval ... Street circuits are the bread and butter of v8 super car series guys.
SVG is not wrong. Deal with it.
SVG was just saying that the top 10 Supercar drivers have similar ability and are as competitive with him.
The speed at the end and his passing were impressive.
Put the driver aside for a moment and let's give the 91 team some "hell ya" for the car they brought.
As for street races, the NASCAR drivers are going to learn that slower is faster. Especially if NASCAR adds more street races to the schedule.
I was more interested in how the cars drove. I didn't have doubt about SVG, it was the team and car that I wondered about. One bad pit stop and it had been a different race.
Congrats to the whole 91 team.
Can’t wait till they replace Brett. I don’t care that he has different takes than me sometimes, it’s his arrogance of always be right that drives me crazy. Couldn’t have a more dislikable guy as a host. He doesn’t even spot anymore. After the season I really hope they change directions.
If Kimi Raikonnen Can Get Into A Next Gen Car At Watkins Glen And Be Top 10 In Practice What's Stopping SVG From Being Wicked Fast At Watkins Glen Just Like He Was At Chicago
Absolutely nothing, in fact, if the butt hurt crew didn't intentionally put him into a wall, he'd win....
especially when SVG has basically driven the exact type of car his whole career vs Kimi
That win was a result of the reality of the track being a level playing field… Everyone had the same amount of experience on that street course… SVG also had to flip his driving style, moving from right side, to left…
Shane is highly skilled, careful and intelligent driver who finishes races. You have to finish to be able to win. Shane is one of the best in the wet. He said himself it would be different on an oval track. His comment that nine other guys could come over was referring to that he was nothing special amongst supercar drivers but he is special in Supercars.
SVG said it's because most of the schedule they run in SuperCar are street courses. That is why he was comfortable.
This is what is needed for the future of NASCAR. Folks the real winner here is the love and interest in car racing in general.😊
well said!
*NASCAR guys aren't used to downshifting 3-4 times while on the brakes, on wet roads in order to make a corner*
Freddie...REALLY!?! This was a track Shane was familiar with!? FIRST TIME EVER THE TRACK WAS CONSTRUCTED! Come on, Man!
he is huffing undiluted copium
I'm sorry but SVG had never seen this track either. You guys are the self proclaimed best drivers in the world. A perfect storm. LOL. He stepped in a car he's never driven, with a crew he's never worked with, at a venue he's never seen before. You could say the top five were in equal cars. Face it, the best driver won. How about sending one of our best to Australia. Put him on the track by himself & let's see how close the lap times are to the top ten Supercar drivers.
They wouldn't even be competitive at Bathurst.
No it was more him downplaying his talent, he is quite humble. He is a generational talent but I don't think he ever thinks that keeps him grounded.
I'd Like For Shane Van Gisbergen To Race At Cota,Sonoma,Indy, Watkins Glen And The Roval And Prove These Guys Wrong 😂
I would love to see a Chase Elliott/Truex-SVG Watkins Glen duel. Would he epic.
I would love to see NASCAR race at Bathurst
You know who was a race car driver?
Jerry was a race car driver
SVG also said he would not do as well on the ovals
You simply don’t understand a typical Kiwi persona. It’s about Shane being modest. He was saying he is no better than his mates in Aus. It was not meant as an insult to the American drivers. Most Americans have been extremely gracious with all this but I guess it is the “offended olympics” nowadays.
Hopefully the drivers have a little more tough skin. Stop making excuses and use this as motivation to do better all this year.
Watch the bathurst 1000 these drivers could win any road course in the usa
At this point, I'm convinced that Brett is just saying crap like this not only because it generates click-bait on a level most cannot fathom in racing, but also because he genuinely believes he's right and won't accept that his opinions are getting him COOKED online.
Personally, as long as he's on DBC I won't listen to it anymore; The comments he's made and his actions over the past week made me lose all respect for him as a person and the others on the show aren't enough to make me continue to follow the program.
V8 Super cars just have a better formula when it comes to "Stock" car road course cars. Just watch any Bathurst race from the last 30 years. Nascar made the right decision to get a car that is more universal to run circles and road courses and hell ya WAY more street courses. NASCAR needs to reinvigorate the fan base and street racing will do it.
There is a guy in the USA who can beat SVG at his own game. He did it three years in a row 2018-2020... Scott McLaughlin.
Scott was one of the three New Zealanders in the top ten of Ohio Indy 200 last weekend.
Us kiwis love Motorsport as much as you Americans. SVG wasn’t trying to insult anyone, he was simply pointing out that the sport is competitive downunder and in the USA.
Join us in celebrating that, your racing history books already feature kiwis and we are proud that our lads get to race on your streets and tracks when they grow up. SVG and McLaughlin are just the next generation of others who have had success racing in the USA like Scott Dixon, Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme. Rod, Steve and Rhys Millen. Your sport is better for it when competition is high.
Talk about misunderstanding SVG's comments. That is NOT what he said. He was saying that any of the top 10 supercar drivers could compete the way he did. He did not mean that the result would be the same. Shame on you for misrepresenting what he said. Thumbs down 👎🏻
I’d love to see more V8 Supercar drivers in NASCAR events.
Also, like to see NASCAR drivers in the V8 Supercars especially at Bathurst as a wild card entry.
Truth be told, some guys can just jump into a car and be fast. The team and relationships are great but in the end SVG is a wheel man. Those Supercar drivers are used to street walls. SVG said that on an oval the tables would be turned. Give him the win and say Congrats.
Settle down champ. SVG's comment was basically him saying that the top 10 drivers in super cars are as good as him, not "Our top 10 guys could beat your top 10"
You deserve to be disappointed, he drove from the other side of the car and had 50 mins of driving time before racing!! Think about that for a minute!
yeah but he "knew the track" despite it being the first ever running somehow lmao.
Not surprised he won, surfers paradise makes Chicago street course look like Disney world
I watched the chicago street course highlights and had a double take when they said it was "a tight street circuit" its basically a 4 lane freeway in comaprison to most of the street races in the supercars
100% agree with TJ. Congrats to him for kicking our boys butts. Perfect scenario for him to come out on top. Watkins Glen or Sonoma that would never have happened.
In the wet on a street course, no doubt they would do well. Waters , Mostart, Feeney , Brown, Kostecki all could do it.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. SVG was down playing his own ability by saying the top 10 Supercar drivers are just as good as he is. This was not a comment on Cup drivers...
The positive side is that NASCAR just picked up a bunch of fans out of NZ and Australia.
Not with the tv coverage. They ran ads instead of the race start! And then, when they missed 2 laps due to commercials, they didn't even recap what they missed
SVG was very respectful of the NASCAR drivers and complemented their high driving skills.
exactly they got their wires crossed Shane SVG never said this another driver or person related to Nascar did
If the race was an Oval race, the US drivers would sweep the race. But this was a street race and the top boys in Supercar have all raced between 50 to 150 street races. Shane has WON 79 Super-Car races, that includes street races. Compare that to the Nascar drivers who have raced very few street races. That's not a slight to the US drivers. It's just that the Supercar drivers all have huge experience in Street races, plus in the wet! Those street races are on much more narrow streets than Oval racing.
On that street circuit, in those conditions, Shane's spot on. Any of the top 10 -12 Supercar drivers would have been competitive in those same situations. On our local podcast "Full Course Yellow" we pointed out how this opens up so many opportunities for Supercar drivers, on street circuits and road circuits.
On an Oval, things would I imagine be very different. What we need to see now are a few NASCAR guys over here to take on Bathurst. Then you'll see how good they are.
American drivers wouldn't be able to do the same in Australia. Svg dosnt win all the time there are easly 10 drivers that can do the same as Shane. Shane seemed to be taking it easy on your guys , just wait until he gets used to the car then you'll see some racing.
SVG isnt wrong, most supercar drivers would destroy cup guys on a road course! He never said anything about ovals.
His comment was spot on. Even Dale jr said he was probably right.
Glad to see Brett without his tin foil hat.
That was Shane trying to be modest & downplay his own exceptional talent. He is always super fast in the wet. Kyle Busch said he was not surprised to see SVG doing that well as they were teammates in the Daytona 24hr & SVG was consistently the fastest guy on the team.
SVG is one of the few V8 Supercar drivers that side-drafts successfully & LOVES the bump & run of NASCAR & similar. If anything he is even BETTER than Marcos Ambrose. Y'all should be pushing to have him in the 2025 season. Guys like him & events like Chicago will make NASCAR a global phenomenon, not just an American one.
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We need to be careful not to discredit what SVG did. Yeah this style of racing is in his wheelhouse and it’s a similar track to what he races on but he still showed up and beat the cup guys with what they always use. No matter how favorable the conditions were to him, he still had to do the job, still had to keep the car in one piece. And he may not win if the Glen was tomorrow but he would be in contention.
Chaz mostart, Brokei Kostecki and Cam Waters from the Supercars could easily be a top 10 driver on that track (add Scott McLaughlin to the list too). They all do a lot of driving outside of supercars, including GT cars and Speedway etc. I guarantee they would be successful.
you forget greg murphy , craig lowndes, the kelly brothers, peter brock if he was still kicking, even perkins, jason ricards if he was alive, the list goes on
He wasn’t disrespecting the NASCAR drivers and he also wasn’t lying. The v8 supercar drivers are insane drivers.
going from right hand drive to a left hand drive car so the gear shift was on the other side. Racing lines all different from where the drivers eye's view. Give this dood credit.
Let's also not forget they drive on the right side In supercars.
Well he's pretty accurate with his comment, this is in particular reference to street courses. Suck it up buttercup! Give credit where it is due.
SVG is very modest, so this comment has been taken out of context. SVG is very technical and talented, and only a few of the top 10 could replicate what SVG did in the circumstance he did.
Now we have another V8 Supercars driver Brodie Kostecki coming to race at Indianapolis with RCR
Americans losing their minds because they misconstrued a comment made by svg is hilarious 😂😂
definitely their wheelhouse 😅
He didn't say anything like that, get some lessons on context. And he's right, the top 10 here are all in the same class as him.
SVG was being honest no diss at all... and there's nothing to stop NASCAR drivers trying out Bathurst for example. :)
There is no reason to be offended by his comment. He was being humble about it and saying that any other top 10 drivers from V8 Supercars could do the same. And he is probably right so what is the problem about that? They use this style of car and they are used to this type of track a lot longer than the cup drivers so for sure he was more on his natural habitat but it doesn't take any less from what an amazing achievement that this was. They are using sequential gear shifts and cars that can reach 190 mph by the end of the straights since forever so they are more used to it. It's fine. He probably would have a lot more difficult if he was debuted on an oval but that's not the point of the Project 91. No reason to get offended. It's fine a guy who is more familiarized with a type of car comes and win even then that the car is completely new to him.
SVG stated that his Nascar was very different to his V8 Supercar, saying the Nascar felt heavy when it let go.
He also had extremely limited track time in the car prior to the race.
A pedal arrangement and mirror placement that was not to his liking but no further adjustments were possible in the time they had before the race.
He had to drive from the opposite side of the car to which he was familiar, even stating that it felt strange judging clearance to walls.
If he had more time to familiarise himself with the car, to engineer it to his needs and taylor it's behaviour to his liking, the gap between him and the field would have been greater still.
Y'all ain't listening nor have y'all watched how he said it. He simply said it out of courtesy for his own fellow top rival's as respect. Thoughts from himself knowing he ain't special but sharing his glory with his home top drivers. My conclusion being he felt that anyone of his home top drivers could've had a good race in NASCAR but that doesn't mean winning.
Na y'all taking that all the wrong way. There was no disrespect there.
The comments of SVG was no way disrespectful but the humbling truth of a humble man
the comments at the start are pretty interesting to look back on, AJ saying there's no way this would happen in XFINITY cos those cars are so much harder to drive..... that doesn't seem to be an issue does it AJ? seems like it might be a bit difficult for AJ to drive them on road courses at present
When you consider that the top ten drivers in Supercars are often only seperated by less than 500ths of a second in qualifying I would say his comments are justified, but what he actually said was any of those drivers could do what he did that doesn't mean they would take the top ten spots, now here's the rub, if your drivers went to Bathurst & ran V8 Supercars I would put $1000 that none would qualify in the top ten and more than half would fail to finish the race.
Race Car drivers are race car drivers....You can drive pretty much anything, if you are good enough. Good for you SVG. Put all the NASCAR boys on notice
As an Australian that has watched SVG dominate on tracks around our country for years and getting to see the high racing IQ and skills he has to make the car do what he want’s it to do, i think you American’s take what he said the wrong way. I tuned in to watch Chicago cause i knew he was going to be quick. He has done spin off’s in Sprintcar, Rally, NZ GP and been right up there too and now NASCAR, there is no reason to find excuses as to why the cup series drivers could not stop him, even the guys back here in Aus find it hard to stop him. The fact is he drove the car for the first time for a couple of laps a few days before, turned up at a new track and put on a clinic, nothing we Aussie V8 Supercars fans have not seen before and the more you guys question it or make excuses, just makes you look like bad losers which kind of sucks, as i thought your series was actually kind of cool with cool fans too 😢.
Also i have attended every street circuit in Australia that the V8 Supercars race many times and i can say that Chicago as cool as it was, it is chalk and cheese comparing that circuit to an Australian street circuit.
Should send your best Cup series driver over here in Aus to see what he can do 👍.
Truth hurts i guess. People that dont follow V8 Supercars have no idea of how talented those drivers are. Dale Earnhardt Jr said he agreed with SVG's comments on this issue, so take that as you will.
SVG had never run on those tyres in a race or qualifying scenario.
He drove on the opposite side of the car.
He was consistently faster than anyone else out there.
V8 Supercars run a locked differential, Nascar doesnt which means Supercars are harder to turn in. He adapted to this as well.
He was playing with Haley on the
Caution restart, and this was demonstrated how easiky his crossover move was done. once he got past he took off into the distance easily.
If it wasnt for the last 2 or 3 cautions, he would have won by 10 seconds.
Facts. You dont have to like them
Downshifting won the race..... just ask Bubba Wallace. Heel-toe, Rev Matching and using his clutch on the downshift. Not just slamming the shifter forward 4 times while hammering on the brakes. This is what every other guy did that lost a car in the corners, locking up the rears long before they got to the corner, completely crashing..
Anyone who thinks SVG would struggle at places like Watkins Glen are deluded, go watch races on circuits such as Philip Island, Oran Park, Melbourne, street circuits such as Adelaide and the big one of Bathurst, I'm neither Australian nor Kiwi, I'm telling you SVG is special, i wouldn't bet your house on him struggling on the ovals either, he's proven to be fing quick in everything you give, hes also got a level of car control that you rarely see outside of rallying or even professional drifting.
Don't forget SVG normally races Right hand drive cars, so he was shifting with the opposite hand and sitting on a different side of the car. So saying this is a similar type of car is selling SVG short of what he did.
Well wake up to yourself champ he spoke the truth. Shane couldn't win a championship till Scotty left for IndyCar.
What svg said may or may not be true. Remember this weekend they are racing a road circuit in Townsville. They do street courses a lot more than the nascar guys do. A lot of the guys over here do a lot more racing than just Supercars
It’s not meant to be a “v8 supercars drivers are all better” it was meant to say that SVG isn’t so special that a driver with his experience could probably have the same success. No reason to be butt hurt that cup guys aren’t as good at a type of racing they never do as people that this style of racing is all they do