Shane van Gisbergen emerged as NASCAR's new road-course beast, and now Connor Zilisch is favored to enter the scene dramatically this week at COTA.

Just as SVG won his Cup debut two seasons ago in Chicago, Zilisch made his first Xfinity start last summer at Watkins Glen, and yes, he won. He grew up on road courses and is obviously capable.

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“If you look at SVG, we’ve seen how fast he is ... including a victory in his NASCAR debut at the inaugural Chicago Street Race. Allmendinger has a best finish of fifth in four COTA starts.

He’s another veteran who helped Zilisch prepare for his looming Cup debut. “I didn’t know him six months ago, well, six to 12 months ago,” Zilisch said of SVG. “I didn’t even know who ...

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Let’s start with the Xfinity series where No. 17 Alex Bowman took pole position for the race, while Xfinity phenoms No. 88 Connor Zilisch started in fourth and No. 2 Jessie Love started in fifth.