While Shane van Gisbergen won the NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL, he did so with his fiercest competition yet.
Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell both mounted serious challenges to van Gisbergen in the last stage before ultimately falling short. Of van Gisbergen’s five road course wins this season, it was the ROVAL that proved to be his tallest task.
While he is still the class of the field on lefts and rights, is the rest of the field catching up to him, or are those just delusions of grandeur by his rivals?
Kevin Nix answers this week’s question for Frontstretch’s YouTube channel.
Kevin Nix has been with Frontstretch since February 2023. Hailing from Gilbert, Arizona, his dream is to be in the NASCAR media sphere full-time. He is a video assistant, working on the back end to streamline video and audio quality of all at-track interviews. Nix also writes about news every Monday for the site.
Nix graduated with a Master's Degree in Sports Journalism from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona. He also has bachelor's degrees in Communications and Political Science. In his downtime, he likes to read, play video games and take walks in the Arizona weather - when it's not too hot.