Shane van Gisbergen is coming back to the NASCAR Cup Series.
Trackhouse Racing announced Wednesday that van Gisbergen would run the Indianapolis road course race on Aug. 13. Van Gisbergen becamewhen he won the Chicago street course race on July 2.
The three-time Australian Supercars champion put on a clinic over the final laps of the Chicago race as he sliced his way through the field and then easily drove away from Justin Haley over the final two laps of the race. A return to NASCAR seemed likely after that win and van Gisbergen joins fellow Supercars driver Brodie Kostecki in the Indianapolis field. Kostecki is set to drive a third car for Richard Childress Racing in what will be his first Cup Series race.
“I never dreamed this could have all rolled out this way,” van Gisbergen said in a team statement. “Just getting to race in NASCAR is an opportunity I never thought I would get, but then to win and get another chance this year is beyond anything I imagined.”The race on the Indianapolis road course will feature two Supercars drivers in Kostecki and van Gisbergen and two former Formula 1 drivers in Kamui Kobayashi and Jenson Button.
The 2009 Formula 1 champion was also in the field in Chicago and made his first start at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. Button finished 18th at COTA and was 21st in the Chicago race.
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