Shane Van gisbergen day at the Coke Zero sugar 400 ended up in smoke after his engine blew on the same day he signed his first full-time Nascar Cup Series contract with track house racing the race at Daytona was Van guren's fifth Cup Series appearance of the season but his positive day turned to turned on lap 82 one of the night's most chaotic and dangerous slaps of the race the lap saw a sequence of bad events unfold starting with their Jones blowing out a tire from 15th Place almost immediately after van gb's car experienced an unexplainable major engine failure resulting in th non-transparent smoke surrounding the entire track The Cloud of smog impaired the visibility of drivers behind him forcing them to switch lanes to avoid potential collisions quickly as the caution flag waved nervousness grew among fans and teams like as the incident caused further complications on the track during the in incident Martin true X Jr's car behind SVG also began to see smoke blow off in turns one and two Jones and Ross Shain made pit stops to address his blown tire and Shain refueled after the hectic cautions the race continued after a sweeper truck was deployed multiple times to clean up the dry oil released from Van guren's car after the Anin failure Harris and Burton won the race joining van gbur and as the only firsttime racers in the series series to win a race this season the incident was a tough break for Van gisbergen who had just secured his future in the Nascar Cup series with a full-time contract track house racing announced that they would have three cars in the Cup Series this season with the New Zealand racer taking the mantle of the number 88 car in 2025 this is a big day in so many ways for track house racing Shane Chevrolet and race fans around the world said track house racing owner Justin marks in the official announcement this is an important step for our organization and it's a credit to the men and women at track house racing whose hard work and success over the last few years have led to us expanding to three Cup teams in 2025 it's also a big step up for Shane who took a chance on track house racing moved here from New Zealand and now joins the most competitive stock car racing series in the world Contin the message everyone will get to watch one of the world's racing Superstars compete in the Nascar Cup Series next year no interviews emerged with Van gisbergen after the race despite Racers who experienced crashes after him being available to the media his last social media activity was a post on X thaning track house for the chance to join their team next season in hopes of competing for a Cup Series champion