Bank of America ROVAL 400: Shane van Gisbergen earns fifth consecutive road-course win at Charlotte Roval

CONCORD, N.C. — Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen earned his fifth consecutive road-course win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season after another dominant performance at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course.

The driver of the No. 88 WeatherTech Chevrolet led 57 of 109 laps in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 en route to his sixth career victory in NASCAR’s premier series (all on road courses) in just 46 career starts.

“Yeah, it’s unbelievable. Kyle (Larson) and Christopher (Bell) were racing really well today,” van Gisbergen said. “They had a bit of speed on me and then got going at the end. Thank you to WeatherTech, Chevrolet, everyone at Trackhouse Racing. Our car was fast and really amazing today. Just an unreal year that we have had.

“I don’t know, It’s just been unbelievable. We executed all of them, except for COTA. I am just over the moon. Things are going well. We are getting better and better, and we’re having a blast doing it. Just speechless. It was certainly a good race, and I am so happy for everyone.”

With another road-course win resulting in a margin of victory over 15 seconds, SVG becomes the first driver since Bobby Allison (1982) to win multiple races in a season by over 15 seconds, according to NASCAR Insights.

Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson was one of the few drivers who could contend with SVG for the win. The driver of the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet led 27 laps as he tried to win his third race at the Charlotte Roval.

Larson went on to finish second and clinch a spot in the Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8.

“I’m happy with a second-place finish for this No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet team,” Larson said. “Shane van Gisbergen (race winner) is just so good. It was a fun battle with Christopher (Bell), too. To start the final stage, we were trying to break up his (SVG) rhythm and race, and I thought it was playing out well. He was just so fast. I tried riding. I tried saving my tires, but I just can’t do it as well as he does. But overall, it was a great finish and momentum to head into the Round of 8.”

Larson’s 49 points scored equaled the same amount of points he scored combined at the previous five road-course races in 2025.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell has quietly been one of the best road-course racers this season. Bell is the only driver to defeat van Gisbergen on a road course in 2025, back in the spring at COTA. Although Bell did not lead any laps, he managed to run up front with SVG and Larson for most of the event to finish third, which is his fifth top five in six road-course races.

“What made the difference, I don’t know,” Bell said. “It felt kind of like the rest of the road courses. We had a hell of a race for second between me and my DEWALT Camry, (Chris) Buescher and (Kyle) Larson. It is that 88 (Shane van Gisbergen) car was what 30 seconds ahead of us. Congratulations to Shane and that Trackhouse team. They have set the bar, and we are all clearly having a hard time getting up to it.”

Results from the 2025 Bank of America Roval 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course are listed below:

Cutline Chaos

With two laps to go, Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain held a multi-point advantage over Team Penske’s Joey Logano. Chastain, who was on older tires, gave up multiple positions, including one to Denny Hamlin.

In a last-ditch effort to advance, Chastain drove into the final chicane on the last lap and wiped himself and Hamlin out, allowing for multiple cars to pass (including Logano), which eliminated him from playoff contention.

“I would restart the whole day for this No. 1 Busch Light Chevrolet team,” Chastain said. “They expect so much more out of me. I went off the end of pit road and didn’t turn. I thought I had more room and I was just trying to get to the yellow line. I just completely started the downfall there. And then I came out of the pit stall, double-clicked up into third and sped on pit road. It was just unforced errors. It’s heartbreaking for almost 200 employees at Trackhouse Racing, our teammates, ECR engines, everybody that makes this go around. Justin (Marks) hired me to drive this No. 1 Chevrolet and be a leader, and I just completely unraveled our day. We definitely had the speed. On the last lap in Turn 7, I downshifted into third, slid the rear tires and let the No. 11 (Denny Hamlin) by. It’s just not acceptable.

“I would say a month before the playoffs until now, this team gave me everything I needed to get to the Round of 8. We have a team that could go fight for the top four. We had a top-four car, and we were a top-eight car a month ago and I just took that away from us today with some unforced errors. A terrible body of work today.  When you work 20 years, studying and try to be ready for these moments and you fail, it’s a terrible feeling.  But I will get up tomorrow and get back to work.”

With Chastain fading late at the Charlotte Roval, Logano advanced into the Round of 8, keeping his hopes alive for back-to-back Cup Series titles.

“Yeah, everybody was telling me how close it was gonna be there,” Logano said about the points battle with Chastain. “We’re still in. We’re still alive, baby. I’m so excited. It was such a close finish there. I knew it was within a point there, and I knew we were gonna be tied there at the end, and Ross was gonna do whatever he had to do to make it happen.  I just wasn’t quite fast enough today with our car, but, overall, it’s the drama of the playoffs.  If you want drama, the playoffs bring it every time. What an entertaining finish there.

“To come down to, like I said, a tie there basically at the end before the wreck. I’m proud of Paul Wolfe. He made some really hard calls today. Three-stopping the end there.  That was kind of an audible at the because our fall off was a little bit too much. Making that call there at the end was ultimately what kept us in the game with just a few left, so that’s a championship performance from the team. I wish I was a little faster, but, overall, I couldn’t be more proud of the team. We’ve still got a shot.”

Other Race Facts

Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace and Austin Cindric join Ross Chastain as the drivers who were eliminated from the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs after the Round of 12.

For the second consecutive round, all four drivers who started the race below the cutline remained there.

Reddick set the fastest lap of the race on the very first lap of the event with a lap time of 86.738 seconds.

Both Chris Buescher (fourth) and Michael McDowell (fifth) earned top-five finishes at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course.

Ryan Preece was the only top-10 finisher (sixth) who had never won a road-course race in the Cup Series.

The 2025 Bank of America ROVAL 400 lasted three hours, three minutes and 51 seconds as there were only three total cautions, with two of them being for stage breaks. Austin Dillon, hitting a tire barrier, brought out the third and final caution of the race on Lap 59.

Riley Herbst was disqualified from the event after failing post-race tech. The 23XI Racing driver is now credited with a 37th-place finish.

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