 | VAN GISBERGEN IN GOOD SHAPE FOR ENDUROS
After a stellar first half of the season where he and the SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon have been one of the front-runners, young Kiwi ace Shane van Gisbergen heads into the second part of the 2010 Australian V8 Supercar championship series in good shape.
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 | LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
With a mid-season break between the Townsville and Phillip Island rounds of this year's V8 Supercar series, SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing young gun Shane van Gisbergen returned 'home' to New Zealand for a quick breather this week. We caught up with him and posed these questions... |
 | DETERMINED DRIVE LIMITS DAMAGE
A determined drive to seventh place from Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed Kiwi young gun Shane van Gisbergen helped limit the points damage after a shock qualifying session on the second day of competition at the ninth round of the V8 Supercar championship series in Townsville on Sunday.
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 | FIRST RACE BRINGS POINTS BONUS
He had an up and down run early on but an eighth place finish in the first race at the Sucrogen Townsville 400 V8 Supercar meeting on Saturday afternoon was enough to elevate Stone Brothers Racing's young SP Tools-backed Ford Falcon driver Shane van Gisbergen back up to third in the overall series points standings behind James Courtney and Jamie Whincup. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN LOOKING FOR BETTER TOWNSVILLE LUCK THIS WEEKEND
Last year SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen showed plenty of promise at the first V8 Supercar series street race meeting at Townsville in northern Queensland. This year he wants to finish the job. |
 | TRIPLE TREAT FOR VAN GISBERGEN IN DARWIN
Young Kiwi Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen scored a triple treat at the Skycity Triple Crown V8 Supercar meeting at the Hidden Valley circuit in Darwin over the weekend, third place finishes in both races seeing him share the round podium with race winners Jamie Whincup and Mark Winterbottom. |
 | PODIUM START FOR VAN GISBERGEN IN DARWIN
SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen was again one of the pace-setters in the first race at the eighth round of this year's V8 Supercar championship in Darwin on Saturday afternoon, starting seventh and finishing third.
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 | DARWIN TURNS UP THE HEAT
The annual SkyCity Triple Crown round of the V8 Supercar championship is always one of the hottest - one of the reasons SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon driver Shane van Gisbergen is looking forward to it this weekend. |
 | CONSISTENCY NETS VAN GISBERGEN TOP SIX ROUND RESULT
There were slim pickings again in qualifying but a mature drive from Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed young gun Shane van Gisbergen limited the damage to his round and series points standings on the second day of competition at the seventh round of this season's V8 Supercar championship meeting at rural Victoria's Winton Motor Raceway on Sunday. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN FIGHTS BACK TO FINISH FIFTH
From 15th to fifth - that was the story for Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed Kiwi young gun Shane van Gisbergen in the first race at the seventh round of this year's Australian V8 Supercar championship series at rural Victoria's Winton Motor Raceway this afternoon. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN KEEN TO KEEP MOMENTUM UP THIS WEEKEND
With another strong round in Queensland at the beginning of the month Shane van Gisbergen is keen to keep the momentum going at the sixth round of this year's Australian V8 Supercar championship at the Winton Motor Raceway in rural Victoria this weekend. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN BACK TO HIS PODIUM BEST IN QUEENSLAND
Fast-rising young Kiwi driver Shane van Gisbergen was back to his podium best at the fifth round of this year's V8 Supercar championship series in Queensland over the weekend, qualifying then eventually finishing second overall to round winner James Courtney |
 | MCINTYRE BACK WITH SBR FOR MAIN EVENTS
John McIntyre will once again make a return to V8 Supercars and SBR driving the #9 SP Tools Racing Falcon alongside fellow Kiwi, Shane van Gisbergen at both enduro rounds and the new Armor All Gold Coast 600 event.
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 | LAP TIMES SET TO TUMBLE THIS WEEKEND
Last year V8 Supercar drivers were given the opportunity to run a set of softer compound 'sticky' tyres at selected meetings. So popular and successful was the decision that at the Ipswich 300 in Queensland this weekend the 'sticky' tyre is now the 'spec' dry weather tyre - meaning they can be used in qualifying as well as both 65 lap races. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN RECOVERS TO FINISH SEVENTH IN SECOND RACE AT HAMILTON
After the disappointment of a dnf in the first race of the weekend on Saturday, SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon driver Shane van Gisbergen made a good recovery in the second ITM 400 race at his 'home' meeting in Hamilton on Sunday, starting 12th and crossing the line eighth. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN OUT EARLY IN FIRST RACE AT HAMILTON
Home town hero Shane van Gisbergen had one of the shortest races of his V8 Supercar career in Hamilton on the first day of competition at the New Zealand round of the V8 Supercar series on Saturday, failing to complete a lap after being forced wide and into the wall as the field funneled into the third turn. |
| VAN GISBERGEN RE-SIGNS WITH SBR UNTIL 2012
Stone Brothers Racing held an official press conference in Hamilton this morning to announce that Shane van Gisbergen has re-signed with the Ford backed team until the end of 2012.
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 | NEXT STEP ON THE PODIUM FOR VAN GISBERGEN
Second place in the final BRC IMPCO V8 race at the Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix meeting in Melbourne's Albert Park on Sunday has given fast-rising young Kiwi racing driver Shane van Gisbergen his best V8 Supercar round result to date - second! |
 | SPARKLING FORM CONTINUES WITH FOURTH IN SECOND AGP RACE
Shane van Gisbergen's sparkling form continued in the second BRC IMPCO V8 Supercar Challenge race at the Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix meeting yesterday, the young Kiwi making it as high as second place before finishing eventually finishing a still impressive fourth. |
| VAN GISBERGEN FINISHES THIRD IN MELBOURNE
Young gun Shane van Gisbergen has had a great start to his non-championship BRC IMPCO V8 Supercar Challenge at the Formula 1 Qantas Australilan Grand Prix meeting in Melbourne, setting the fifth quickest time in the Top Ten Shootout then finishing the first race of the weekend (on Friday evening) third.
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 | VAN GISGERGEN RESERVES PLACE IN TOP TEN SHOOTOUT AT ALBERT PARK
SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen reserved himself a place in today's Top Ten Shootout at the non-championship BRC IMPCO V8 Supercar GP Challenge in Melbourne after posting the 10th quickest time in the meeting qualifying session on Thursday afternoon.
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 | VAN GISBERGEN ‘THE COMEBACK KID’ IN ADELAIDE
After the disappointment of missing out on what could have been a third place finish in Saturday's first Clipsal 500 meeting race in Adelaide, SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen stormed back on Sunday to finish a fighting fourth. |
 | POTENTIAL BUT NO PODIUM THIS TIME FOR VAN GISBERGEN
There was potential aplenty but no podium this time for SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen in the first race at the Clipsal 500 meeting in Adelaide yesterday (Saturday) afternoon.
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| VAN GISBERGEN SECOND QUICKEST AND FASTEST FORD DRIVER ON FRIDAY
SP Tools Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen continued his fine early season form on the opening day of the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide yesterday (Friday), ending up second only to championship points leader Jamie Whincup at the conclusion of the three practice sessions. |
 | STORMING DRIVE NETS VAN GISBERGEN THIRD & LAP RECORD IN SECOND BAHRAIN RACE
A storming drive from the seventh row of the grid netted SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen third place both in the second race of the weekend and the round at the second round of the 2010 V8 Supercar series at the Bahrain International Circuit early this morning (NZ time). |
 | VAN GISBERGEN SECOND IN SHOOTOUT, FIFTH IN FIRST BAHRAIN RACE
SP Tools Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen continues to raise the bar with his early season performances in this year's V8 Supercar championship, setting the second quickest lap time in the Top Ten Shootout before finishing fifth in the first race at the second series round in Bahrain this morning (NZ time).
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 | VAN GISBERGEN FOURTH FASTEST ON FIRST DAY IN BAHRAIN
SP Tools Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen was the quickest of the Stone Brothers Racing cars after practice at the second round of the 2010 V8 Supercar series in Bahrain last night (NZ time) finishing fourth fastest for the day in combined lap times after a one year hiatus from the world class Bahrain International Circuit. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN SCORES FIRST V8 SUPERCAR PODIUM IN ABU DHABI
SP Tools Racing's Shane van Gisbergen has claimed the first podium position of his fast-rising V8 Supercar career after finishing the second of the opening 2010 series round's two 200km races at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi last night (Saturday) in third place. |
 | SIXTH PLACE AND NEW LAP RECORD FOR VAN GISBERGEN
Shane van Gisbergen got his 2010 V8 Supercar championship campaign off to a strong start at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi last night setting a new category lap record on his way to a sixth place finish in the first race of the season. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN SETS THE PACE IN ABU DHABI
SP Tools Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen has continued his time sheet topping efforts heading into the first round of this year's Australian V8 Supercar championship series at the spectacular Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi this week. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN TOPS TIME SHEETS AT PRE-SEASON TEST
SP Tools Ford Falcon driver Shane van Gisbergen was the toast of the Stone Brothers Racing team at Ipswich's Queensland International Raceway yesterday afternoon (Tuesday Feb 09) after claiming both the fastest lap and a new lap record at the first official V8 Supercar test session of the season at the track. |
 | THREE-CAR TEAM FOR SBR IN 2010
SP Tools-backed young gun Shane van Gisbergen will be part of a three-car Stone Brothers Racing assault on the 2010 Australian V8 Supercar championship this season. |
 | STORMING SIXTH NETS VAN GISBERGEN FOURTH OVERALL IN SYDNEY
A storming drive through the field from 19th place to sixth capped off a dramatic weekend for SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon driver Shane van Gisbergen on the second day of competition at the season-ending Sydney Telstra 500 V8 Supercar race meeting on Sunday. |
 | POINTS BUT LITTLE PLEASURE ON FIRST DAY AT FINAL
Crossing the finish line in tenth place brought points but little pleasure for SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing's Shane van Gisbergen on the first day of competition at the Sydney Telstra 500, the final round of the 2009 V8 Supercar championship series in Sydney on Saturday.
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 | VAN GISBERGEN THIRD QUICKEST ON FRIDAY
Shane van Gisbergen got the final round of this year's V8 Supercar championship series off to a great start at the new Homebush street circuit in Sydney on Friday, his aggressive and brave driving style on the narrow track producing the third fasted time of the day. |
 | TOP TEN FOR VAN GISBERGEN THIS WEEKEND?
Can young Kiwi gun Shane van Gisbergen finish this year's V8 Supercar championship series in the top ten?
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 | QUICK TRIP HOME FOR PROMO TOUR THIS WEEKEND
The ITM 400, New Zealand’s largest annual sporting event, is coming to a town near you. And this weekend fans in the North Island have a chance to hear about next year's meeting from none other than our own Shane van Gisbergen. |
 | TEAM PONDERS SYDNEY COMEBACK AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT AT PERTH
Stone Brothers Racing will be looking to redeem themselves at next month’s Sydney Telstra 500 event after drivers Shane van Gisbergen and Alex Davison struggled for grip at the penultimate round of the 2009 Australian V8 Supercar championship in Perth over the weekend. |
 | SBR SET FOR 'SOFT' SUNDAY
Stone Brothers Racing will be looking to make the most out of the ‘soft’ tyres they have in reserve for the longer second race at the Bigpond 300 meeting at Perth today (Sunday) after a disappointing start to the weekend. |
 | WILL THE WEST BE GOLDEN FOR VAN GISBERGEN THIS WEEKEND?
Australia's 'Golden West' hosts the penultimate round of this year's V8 Supercar championship series this weekend with Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed young gun Shane van Gisbergen looking to consolidate on his year-best fourth overall placing at the Island 300 meeting at Phillip Island a fortnight ago.
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 | ANOTHER TOP TEN FINISH FOR VAN GISBERGEN AT THE ISLAND
The news just gets better and better for fast-rising young Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen who made his way into the top ten of the V8 Supercar Championship on Sunday (Nov 08) after another brilliant drive at The Island 300 |
 | FIFTH FOR VAN GISBERGEN IN FIRST RACE AT PHILLIP ISLAND
Young Kiwi gun Shane van Gisbergen enjoyed a strong start to the latest round of Australia's V8 Supercar series at Phillip Island today (Saturday Nov 07) finishing fifth in the first race at The Island 300 meeting after an incident involving Craig Lowndes and Todd Kelly helped him move up two places in the dying stages of the race. |
 | TARGA INTERLUDE THEN BACK TO WORK FOR VAN GISBERGEN
After a quick trip home to join his father Robert (Cheese) as a roving ambassador on the Dunlop Targa tarmac rally, Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed V8 Supercar driver Shane van Gisbergen is back 'in the office' this weekend at Phillip Island. |
 | HARD DAY BUT POINTS PAYOFF FOR VAN GISBERGEN IN 'PARADISE
After coming back from a qualifying crash to claim two great top 10 finishes on the first day of competition on Saturday, Sunday at the big Nikon SuperGP meeting on Queensland's Gold Coast proved to be something of an anti-climax for Stone Brothers Racing and the driver of the #9 SP Tools-backed Ford Falcon, Shane van Gisbergen, a big points payoff the only real highlight.
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 | FANTASTIC FIGHTBACK FOR VAN GISBERGEN AT SURFERS
After a tough day on Friday in which he dented both his car and his confidence SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon driver Shane van Gisbergen was back to his swash-buckling best on the first day of racing at the big Nikon SuperGP meeting in Surfers Paradise on Saturday. |
 | DOUBLE DUTY/OPPORTUNITY FOR VAN GISBERGEN AT HOME
The last-minute re-shuffle of the programme by the organisers of this weekend's Nikon SuperGP meeting on the streets of Surfers Paradise means double the driving duties but also double the opportunity for Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed star Shane van Gisbergen.
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 | DISAPPOINTMENT DESPITE EARLY PROMISE AT BATHURST
There was disappointment for Stone Brothers Racing's Irwin Industrial Tools/SP Tools squad at Bathurst on Sunday despite an impressive qualifying performance from Shane van Gisbergen and race-leading pace from both van Gisbergen and teammate Alex Davison. |
 | P6 START FOR VAN GISBERGEN & DAVISON
Stone Brothers Racing's #9 Irwin Industrial Tools/SP Tools Ford Falcon will start this year's Bathurst 1000 from the third row of the grid thanks to young Kiwi gun Shane van Gisbergen's impressive sixth place in the Top Ten Shootout on Saturday afternoon. |
 | SBR EXPERIENCES BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN IN QUALIFYING
It was a coin toss that determined who would drive the #9 IRWIN/SP Tools Racing Falcon in yesterday’s qualifying sessions after Shane van Gisbergen and Alex Davison’s times and data in the days earlier practice sessions were too close to call. |
| PROMISING START FOR SBR AT MT PANORAMA
Stone Brothers Racing’s solid start on track at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 on Thursday will “only boost our existing confidence” said Alex Davison after both IRWIN/SP Tools Racing FG Falcons finished sixth and sixteenth in the opening practice sessions. |
 | BEST CHANCE YET FOR VAN GISBERGEN AT BATHURST THIS WEEKEND
By pairing their two top drivers together in a jointly-liveried Irwin Industrial Tools/SP Tools Ford Falcon V8, top Australian V8 Supercar team Stone Brothers Racing has given young Kiwi gun Shane van Gisbergen his best chance yet in Australasia's biggest race, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. |
 | SHANE AND THE 'TOOLS FOR KIDS' CAMPAGN
V8 Supercar driver, Shane van Gisbergen took time out of his busy mid-season schedule last week to visit the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane in the lead up to the Super GP event on the Gold Coast. |
 | SECOND PHILLIP ISLAND EVENT & ALL-NEW '10 CALENDAR
Hot on the heels of the L & H 500 km endurance race at Phillip Island, the V8 Supercar circus is returning to the popular Victorian track for a second – this time sprint – round over the November 07-08 weekend. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN PLAYS KEY ROLE
Young Kiwi gun Shane van Gisbergen played a key role in the top ten finish for Stone Brothers Racing's #9 SP Tools/Irwin Tools Ford Falcon in the first endurance race of the 2009 Australian V8 Supercar season at Victoria's Phillip Island circuit on Sunday September 13. |
 | FIRST SEASON ENDURO FOR VAN GISBERGEN
It's enduro time again for Shane van Gisbergen and the Stone Brothers Racing team, with the first of the Australilan V8 Supercar series' two endurance races - the L & H 500 at Phillip Island - on this weekend. |
 | TEAM MATES PAIR UP TO TACKLE ENDUROS
SBR’s naming right sponsors, SP Tools and IRWIN Industrial Tools have announced they will combine their sponsorship in an attempt to win the elusive Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.
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 | STRONG SHOWING PUTS VAN GISBERGEN BACK IN THE PICTURE
Kiwi young gun Shane van Gisbergen was well and truly back in the V8 Supercar picture in Queensland over the weekend, looking set for a podium until the last two laps of the first race on Saturday afternoon then ending up the first of the non-sprint tyre finishers in the second race of the weekend on Sunday. |
 | HOME ROUND HOPES FOR VAN GISBERGEN
They'll be the usual home round hopes for the Yatala, Queensland-based Stone Brothers Racing squad and their SP Tools-backed young gun Shane van Gisbergen as this year's V8 Supercar championship series heads to Ipswich this weekend for the ninth round of the 2009 championship series at Queensland International Raceway. |
 | ROOMMATE COMPLETES SBR’S ENDURO TEAM
Shane van Gisbergen’s kiwi roommate, Daniel Gaunt has been confirmed as SBR’s final driver in their 2009 enduro season line-up. |
 | LUCK DESERTS VAN GISBERGEN AT SANDOWN
Luck deserted young New Zealand driver Shane van Gisbergen at the latest round of the 2009 V8 Supercar championship series at Melbourne's Sandown Park Raceway over the weekend. |
| VAN GISBERGEN KEEN FOR '08 REPEAT AT SANDOWN
Last year's Sandown round marked something of a breakthrough for New Zealand V8 Supercar driver Shane van Gisbergen. And the 20-year-old Kiwi young gun reckons a repeat of his '08 performance at the suburban Melbourne track this weekend would be a good way to get his '09 season back on track.
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 | PROBLEMS TORPEDO VAN GISBERGEN'S PROMISE
Problems in the pits on Saturday and with his car's steering rack on Sunday effectively torpedoed the promise Kiwi young gun Shane van Gisbergen showed in qualifying at the inaugural Dunlop Townsville 400 V8 Supercar meeting in northern Queensland over the weekend. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN ITCHING TO GET ONTO NEW TOWNSVILLE CIRCUIT
After a fortnight 'on the road' Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-sponsored young gun Shane van Gisbergen is itching to get back behind the wheel of his new Ford Falcon and try Townsville's new Reid Park street circuit for size. |
 | STONE BROTHERS RACING HITS THE ROAD
Stone Brothers Racing hits the road next week as they travel north to the inaugural Townsville 400 V8 Supercar race round the streets of northern Queensland city Townsville over the July 11-12 weekend. |
| POSITIVES FROM TRYING WEEKEND
Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-sponsored young gun Shane van Gisbergen was looking on the bright side on Sunday night despite a roller coaster couple of days at the latest round of the V8 Supercar championship at Darwin in the Far North over the weekend. |
 | Event Preview Darwin: SOFT TYRE SCENARIO THE BIG UNKNOWN THIS WEEKEND
Dunlop's new soft compound 'sprint' tyre has helped add an all new dimension to this year's V8 Supercar championship series across the Tasman. But after two rounds run in cool conditions the big unknown this weekend is how they will last in the tropical heat of the Hidden Valley Raceway circuit in Australia's far north. |
 | PROGRESS THEN A PROBLEM FOR YOUNG GUN VAN GISBERGEN IN TASMANIA
There was progress - significant progress - then a problem for Stone Brothers Racing's SP Tools-backed young gun Shane van Gisbergen at the fifth round of this year's V8 Supercar championship series at Tasmania's Symmons Plains circuit over the weekend. |
 | VAN GISBERGEN IN BUOYANT MOOD HEADING TO TASMANIA
Having thoroughly enjoyed his recent back-to-back test with Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom, this weekend's round of the V8 Supercar championship series at Symmons Plains in Tasmania can't come round quick enough for Stone Brothers Racing's young SP Tools-backed Kiwi Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen. |
 | YOUNG GUN POSITIVE DESPITE SETBACKS AT HOME ROUND
23-April-2009
It could have been the round of the 2009 V8 Supercar series at which young Kiwi gun Shane van Gisbergen got his first podium. But it was not - quite - to be at the second annual Hamilton 400 street race meeting for the SP Tools-backed Stone Brothers Racing Ford star. |
