WITH four rounds of the 2016 Supercars season remaining, Shane van Gisbergen is in a position to claim the drivers’ championship for the first time in his career.
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But the Red Bull Racing star, who currently leads the championship by seven points over team-mate Jamie Whincup, is not thinking about earning the #1.
His immediate focus is doing well in the Enduro Cup.
He placed second at last month’s Sandown 500 and is now intent on getting on the Bathurst 1000 podium for the first time this weekend. From nine previous starts in the Great Race, his best result was a sixth in 2011.
“I said I won’t think about the championship until after Gold Coast … we’ve got two big weeks coming up, we’ve got two good drivers going well, so keep the focus down and we’ll think about that after,” van Gisbergen said.
“It is always a different race, a different weekend. You just focus on the job at hand. You have just got to focus weekend by weekend and things will happen for us if we do a good job.”
While van Gisbergen has not enjoyed much luck in the Bathurst 1000, earlier this year at Mount Panorama he was part of the TEKNO Autosport line-up which won the Bathurst 12 Hour in a McLaren.
“For me it was great doing the 12 Hour this year and it would be a dream come true to win them both in the same year,” he said.
“We will know how to be fast around there and how to win a race there, so I think it can happen. You have just got to be mistake free, stay out of trouble and be there in that last 20 laps for that sprint.”
