Shane van Gisbergen to Drive No. 88 Full-Time for Trackhouse Racing in 2025 NASCAR Cup Series

and the News actually is prettyy exciting all over the world so um thank you for letting us come in here today on a race day like this I know everyone's busy um you know we have some exciting news about the next step of of track house racing and so we have with us the founder and uh owner Justin marks and we have Shane Van van gisbergen who after 12 months we've all learned how to say his name correctly which is fantastic but I want to thank some of the folks from uh Chevrolet who were here been really the Cornerstone of this whole company um when we started this um one of the one of the goals was to have a key partner and find the right key partner we have found that with Chevrolet and um it's their uh their Foundation of our company that helps us move into the direction that that Justin's getting ready to tell you about so Justin why you go ahead and make the announcement yeah it's a great day for the company obviously U being able to announce that we're expanding to a third full-time Cup Series entry in 202 5 um and most exciting thing for me about it is that we're able to announce that Shane vanan gbsb is going to be the full-time driver in the cup series for us next year at track house as we expand from two cars to three and and you know these are these moments are are always uh special especially since you know 48 months ago um this was a Tennessee limited liability company with $500 in the bank and sort of an idea me and TI trying to figure out how to do it so um you know for us to uh come in as a one car team in 2021 um you know make the acquisition of gassie expanded two teams uh win you know seven races in the next you know two and a half years after that um and then you know had some great great Partners come on and just sort of continue this amazing amazing journey of building a great company here this is obviously a huge moment so I'm really really thrilled and excited that that Shane you know put the Trust In us and and you know made a huge commitment in leaving a very successful career in Australia New Zealand and moved to a new country and sort of start over and uh put his his faith and his trust in us uh means means a lot to us and he's put in a tremendous amount of work um great uh great human being very very talented race car driver and somebody with an incredibly incredibly bright future so we're we're very excited to have them here it's also kind of unique about this is that this is a this is a neat moment for for project 91 I mean you know project 91 was you know it was a program to bring incredible Talent from around the world to the Nascar Cup Series and see if we could do something special with it and obviously you know was Shane going to Chicago and and you know being the first uh first winner in 60 years on on debut in Project 91 and then you know make the move over make the commitment to xinity Series this year and a bunch of Cup races and then be able to turn that into a full-time Cup Series ride in 2025 is just a really cool moment in the story of of project 91 so we're we're very excited uh we're thrilled that he's uh he's accepted the offer and made the commitment and uh looking for big things in uh 2025 so over to you my friend yeah thank you yeah afternoon everyone it's um it's been pretty pretty awesome um 18 months I guess now and yeah it's been a huge life change as as Justin said and um yeah everything he said was going to happen as has happened so yeah I'd never never thought it would happen this quick and I'm I'm very glad we've done done the learning learning year this year in xinity call racing been great to work with and and then also a lot more races to finish the year now but it's been a huge learning experience but just excited to get full in the cup series next year and working with track house and how fun that's been this year the way everyone goes racing the attitude in the place and it just resonates from the top with with Justin and and Ty the leadership there it's um yeah you just feel it through the place it's a really cool team to be a part of and um yeah hugely excited about it got a lot of work to do and you know it's it's not going to be easy that that's for sure but I'll keep pushing and yeah hopefully uh fit in pretty good next year can't wait did just a couple of things that have um come over come across in the last maybe even 30 days is talk a little bit about as you look at track House Entertainment Group now and you look at all the different regions of the world that right now represented under that Banner yeah I mean that's that's definitely a um you know an element to the story here that's that's uh we take a lot of pride in I mean you know we have we're going to be full-time Cup racing next year with three cars with drivers are born in three different countries which I think is a pretty amazing thing for this sport it's amazing thing for for where Motorsports is today and and you know we're we're thrilled and honored to be stewards of um of you know inter International diversity the top top level of Motorsports I mean I've said this a couple times now you know with Moto GP uh and our Moto GP lineup next year and our Cup Series lineup next year track house has a roster of athletes that represent Mexico New Zealand the USA Spain and Japan which is which is a pretty incredible thing for for a Motorsports company we take uh take a lot of pride in that so um you know we just continue to tell tell a great story um you know try to get really great people in the house with with diverse backgrounds great stories to tell uh compelling personalities and at the end of the day just really really dedicated hard workers yeah Shane for you just coming to over here and then and you you're racing against people you've never met before and I remember when we were in Chicago um you were trying to read the names on the back of the windows just to remember you who you're trying to race in that corner um talk about a year later now that you've been around these guys and how much you've learned and also some of the respect that you see between you yourself and some of these other drivers it goes both ways didn't you have to Google me when Jus brought yeah yeah it's you know it's a it's a different world and it's uh you know you're still car racing but it's a completely different sport and um yeah as I said learning so much this year and got two recent examples of people I guess come true Marcus Ambrose and and one Pablo similar backgrounds and one did you know three or four races in xinity and then fulltime into car and Marcus took it the slow route so we're kind of in between and I think the way we've done this is the right way with all the processes and even though the xinity car is very very different to a cup car I think was 100% worth it learning all the tracks all the places the terminology metric versus uh Imperial that's been tough but it is you know it's it's a massive learning year and um yeah I just I just got to keep building on it and and keep improving every week and had a little kind of sitb back I guess in in xinity losing our crew chief but you know we got to get that momentum built up and I'm still fully focused on getting a great result in the playoffs and and keeping that momentum into next year so yeah it's pretty exciting times so one other element to this is as you expand the team um you have to dig deep and start thinking about well what what's going to be the number and how do you take this into the next level in something of some relevance and so I want Shane and Justin to go over here and we're going to unveil the number soers around let me let yeah let me just say one thing about that before we before we unveil the number one of the things that's important for traing the numbers are important numbers are important they're a big part of The Branding in the sport numbers represent history um and and they represent you know Legions of fans and in historic drivers and historic moments in the sport and I think you know we we don't take our number choices lightly and and you know when we chose the 99 car to begin with there was a responsibility that came with that and and that's you know wins with Carl Edwards and with Jeff Burton a lot of a lot of great drivers same thing with the one with Kurt bus and J MC Murray and a bunch of drivers and and when we think about when we think about the numbers and we think about our history and the number it's important for us to honor that history and it's important for us to add to the winning Legacy of that number which we've done with the one and we've done with the 99 we intend to do with the new one here we go for those who can't see it's the 88 that's for those of you in the Press Box can so um you know Justin you want to tell a little bit about the process of this you know having you know wanting wanting to do the right thing talking to the Hender group talking to Jeff Gordon talking to uh to Theon Hearts yeah I mean when we you know I called Carl Edwards when you know in the end of 2020 and I said we're starting this Cup team we want to run the 99 number and I want to you know tell you that we're doing this and and obviously get your endorsement of it and get your support for it we did the same with the one and and we've done it with with the uh with the 88 talking to uh to the folks at hendrik and and to Dale Jr who I was just texting an hour and a half ago and and you know it's important for us to to have the endorsement a great great exchange with Dale Jr saying like look it's it's not my number I mean it's I added to the legacy of it I it was it's important to me personally but but you know he was he was proud to see it in good hands and that's just something that's that's super super important to me and to this company I got a phone call from Jeff Gordon one day and he says did you talk to me about it Marshall about I know you talked to Dell junr have you talked to Kelly yet Kelly aren't I'm went no he goes she's the boss call her now so I want to thank Dale junr and Kelly for uh for letting us and there are some amazing drivers at attached to that number and so it is a lot of responsibility and and we we certainly accept that so we're going to open it up uh to some questions here for the next 5 to 10 minutes this is custom Pat hat but what makes us custom well that actually begins with you we're just bringing your unique Vision to life no knockoffs no lookalikes Your Design is one of a kind we know hats we know design and we know quality the proof it's in our production hand stitched with precision and care with brand you know and trust a one-of-a kind patch deserves a one-of aind treatment all the way to your doorstep it's how we keep it custom Steven stump of front.com here come back for more great racing videos and if you like us don't forget to hit that subscribe button