Repco Supercars Championship
Position
4
Points
814
Penalty 0
Average Qualifying Position 9.7
Average finishing Position 7.0

biography

Date of birth
09/05/1989 (Age 33)
Place of birth
Auckland, New Zealand
Lives
Gold Coast, QLD
Nickname
SVG
Outside of Racing
Hyper simulator, drifting, speedway, rally driving, family
Debut
Oran Park 2007
Engineer
Andrew Edwards
Follow Shane van Gisbergen

Shane van Gisbergen heads into 2023 as the defending champion, having won 21 races in a record-breaking 2022 campaign.

A proud Kiwi, van Gisbergen crushed the field last year and scored a second Bathurst 1000 victory.

He claimed the title in 2016, his first season with Triple Eight, and after an up-and-down '17 fell just short in the fierce '18 fight against Scott McLaughlin.

2019 was not so close, but van Gisbergen again flew the Triple Eight flag with five race wins and a further seven podiums.

It marked van Gisbergen’s third time as series runner-up, having also done so in 2014 while at Tekno Autosports.

He finished 2020 with his first Great Race win, before he left everyone for dead in 2021 and clinched a second drivers' title.

It is now more than a decade since van Gisbergen burst onto the Supercars scene with Team Kiwi in the middle of 2007.

During a torrentially wet weekend at Oran Park, he finished 13th in one race and set the third-fastest lap in another.

Stone Brothers Racing became van Gisbergen’s home in 2008, continuing to demonstrate brilliant car control in the wet.

As he matured, performances became far more consistent and he teetered on the brink of victory until breaking through on home soil at the Hamilton street circuit in 2011.

He left SBR at the end of 2012 in controversial circumstances when it was due to become Erebus Motorsport, eventually linking with Tekno.

Van Gisbergen took his first victory driving a Holden on his Tekno debut in Adelaide in 2013, winning nine races over his three-year tenure.

Since joining Triple Eight, van Gisbergen has also won a PIRTEK Enduro Cup and is twice a winner of the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy.

He continues to build an impressive record in sportscar racing that includes winning the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with McLaren and the LIQUI MOLY Bathurst 12 Hour the same year for the same marque.

In 2022, he also made his Le Mans debut and took to rallying, the highlight being points on his World Rally Championship debut.

Season Progress

Event Race Qualifying Finish Championship
Thrifty Newcastle 500 ›
Race 2 › 5 1 24
Beaurepaires Melbourne SuperSprint ›
Race 3 › 3 1 11
Race 4 › 1 2 7
Race 5 › 11 2 3
Race 6 › 12 4 3
Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint ›
Race 7 › 1 1 3
Thrifty Newcastle 500 ›
Race 1 › 24 DSQ 3
Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint ›
Race 8 › 9 5 3
Race 9 › 21 12 2
NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint ›
Race 10 › 9 3 4
Race 11 › 11 NC 4
Race 12 › 9 4

Vehicle detail

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
ENGINE: GM 5.7 litre V8, single camshaft, two valves per cylinder, aluminium block
Red Bull Ampol Racing

Triple Eight Race Engineering has commonly set the standard in the Repco Supercars Championship for more than a decade.

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