Shane van Gisbergen's win opened the floodgates.
Yesterday, Shane van Gisbergen became the first driver to step into a NASCAR Cup Series car and win on debut since Johnny Rutherford did it in 1963. He also became the first road course specialist to win a race on a schedule oriented around those tracks since Mark Donohue did it for Team Penske in 1973. Those records are relics from an era where the great drivers of the world more freely tried everything available to them and often won in cars nothing like what they ran for championships.
Endurance racing has long been an exception, thanks to additional open seats in 24 hour races. At Le Mans, the most notable examples in recent years are winners Fernando Alonso and Nico Hulkenberg, who were each able to race in a factory car while also running full-time in F1.
But those are sports cars, not single-seat race cars in championships meant to showcase individual drivers. Those championships have long resisted one-offs of note, and outliers like Fernando Alonso and Kurt Busch's Indianapolis 500 attempts have required major sacrifices on behalf of their full-time employers. Alonso even missed an F1 race in Monaco, making him the first driver to voluntarily step out of a Formula 1 seat for a mid-season round without an injury or illness in recent history.
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