Shane van Gisbergen discusses what he learns racing on ovals in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on a week-to-week basis.
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00:00 Yeah, some things are different.
00:02 Like I really struggled at the moment with the skew of the cars.
00:05 So when the car lands in the corner, how the diff kind of flexes
00:09 in the whole car, yaws out.
00:11 And like that's 30 years of racing for me, telling me that the car's spinning out.
00:14 You know, my bum's telling me that I'm about to crash and I'm facing the infield.
00:18 But, you know, the side force of the car holds it in.
00:21 So I'm still learning that the car's not sliding and
00:25 the hand of God, as Ross is telling me, is stopping me from spinning out.
00:30 It's one of the craziest things to, you know, just ignore that
00:33 you're having a big spin, but you're not.
00:34 So, yeah, getting used to that feeling and understanding how these tyres work.
00:39 They're very different
00:40 how they come on and the pressures they run here.
00:43 So, yeah, it's just every week.
00:46 And I'm pretty conservative, I guess, with my racing and always takes me a while.
00:50 I'm normally coming good by the third stage, but, you know, it's too late by then.
00:54 So definitely when we get back to tracks, I know hopefully I'm quick from the get go.