There’s been a cloud over the short-term way forward for the three-time sequence champion not too long ago, with van Gisbergen refusing to commit to Supercars until Gen3 had been rolled out.
His relationship with the sequence was additional stretched earlier this yr when he locked horns with Mark Skaife over being critical of the new cars.
Regardless of all that, the Kiwi has now formally dedicated to each the sequence and Triple Eight with a multi-year extension past this season.
“Extending with Crimson Bull Ampol Racing was a no brainer for me,” mentioned van Gisbergen.
“It’s actually thrilling to proceed with the most effective workforce in pitlane and I’m stoked to have the ability to keep.
“I’ve by no means been happier at this workforce. The good second for me, and one that actually solidified my resolution, was the workforce repairing my automotive after I had that shunt on the Australian Grand Prix – everybody caught in to assist one another to get #97 mounted.
“Despite the fact that we missed the following apply session, to come back out and put the automotive on pole in qualifying was superb. Seeing how a lot that meant to everybody was a particular second, and to then win that race was unreal.
“It’s such a unbelievable workforce setting in the intervening time, and we now have an amazing crew that I like working with.”
Shane van Gisbergen, Triple Eight Race Engineering, Chevrolet Camaro
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
Van Gisbergen added that the challenges of Gen3 had been another excuse he had determined to proceed in Supercars.
“The very best factor about our sport is that it’s at all times evolving,” he mentioned.
“All these challenges we’ve had with the brand new automobiles will hopefully work themselves out as we hold updating the automobiles over the following few occasions – there’s at all times one thing to study and at all times issues to maintain getting higher at.
“It’s these challenges that hold it contemporary, and dealing with this workforce to know these challenges and make the automobiles higher is what I actually get pleasure from.
“I need to thank the workforce, our companions and our followers for his or her help. Triple Eight is a cool place to be part of and I’m wanting ahead to the longer term.”
Triple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup welcomed the continuation of a driver/workforce combo that began again in 2016.
“It’s at all times nice information when you’ve got the most effective driver within the nation deciding to place his religion within the workforce at Triple Eight Race Engineering to provide him a quick, dependable race automotive to showcase his abilities,” mentioned Whincup.
“It’s an enormous honour that Shane has chosen us to proceed that relationship. We are going to after all proceed to put money into him, his help crew, engineering and mechanics, to provide him the most effective gear to stay aggressive within the sport.
“We as a workforce want the most effective drivers within the nation to showcase our abilities. On the finish of the day, we’re an engineering firm and we satisfaction ourselves on constructing the most effective race automobiles and componentry and representing ourselves within the highest regard.
“A kind of elements is that we’d like somebody to get behind the wheel and showcase that work we do and characterize the model and our companions within the highest attainable gentle, and we consider Shane is the most effective individual for that.
“The very best precedence for me is having drivers that put every thing on the road and showcase their excessive ability. Everybody that buys a ticket to a Supercars occasion or watches it on tv desires to see drivers who put their our bodies on the road and take dangers to do extraordinary issues, and that’s precisely what SVG does.
“You at all times need to respect the athletes within the area, or on the sector, or on the monitor – those on the market giving their all. The day you don’t respect that’s the day that you simply don’t respect sport.
“That’s what we respect him for – giving his absolute all, week in and week out.”