SVG ties NASCAR Cup champ Kulwicki, others on wins list
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — With his fourth win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season coming Sunday at Watkins Glen, Shane van Gisbergen is now tied with 1992 champ Alan Kulwicki and others on the series’ all-time wins list.
The rookie of the year contender also shares the tie with Ward Burton, active racer Austin Dillon, Dan Gurney, Tiny Lund, Dave Marcis, Jeremy Mayfield and Ralph Moody.
“I’ve changed my life to come and do this. To come and make true of what everyone believed in me and to execute myself and get everything right, it’s why I go racing,” SVG said post-race. “As I said, sharing it with those people and seeing how much it means to the guys who work every week so hard on the car and their pit stops, it’s so cool. It means the world to everyone.”
SVG’s first victory came at the Chicago Street Course in 2023. His four wins of 2025 have come at Mexico City, Chicago, Sonoma and Watkins Glen. At five career wins, he is the fastest to five wins since Dan Gurney in the 1960s.
After Watkins Glen, the 36-year-old SVG has 4 poles, 5 wins, 6 Top-5 finishes and 9 Top-10s in 38 starts. He has led a total of 305 laps led.
Similar to Shane van Gisbergen, Alan Kulwicki earned his place on the all-time wins list in short time. Kulwicki won one race apiece in 1988, 1990 and 1991. In 1992, he won twice and pulled off the ultimate underdog championship.
Kulwicki earned 24 poles in his career, which ended in 1993 when he died in a plane crash.
His legacy lives on in a multitude of drivers, including Ty Majeski. Majeski, the defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion, is also a Wisconsin-born engineer-driver.
The Trucks will race Friday, Aug. 15, a day before the Cup cars race, at Richmond Raceway.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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