Van Gisbergen Tops Practice, Qualifies 6th at COTA

Shane Van Gisbergen started proceedings perfectly at Circuit of the Americas in the NASCAR Cup Series, topping the two 20-minute Practice sessions, before Qualifying sixth for tomorrow’s 95-lap race. Van Gisbergen immediately asserted his pace in Practice One, topping the timesheets with a blistering 1:38.855—a full 0.289 seconds faster than Hendrick Motorsports’ Alex Bowman. Eighteen-year-old …