We’re in the final stretch of regular-season races on the NASCAR schedule, with this weekend’s trip to Sonoma Raceway marking

Shane van Gisbergen has won the Busch Light Pole Award for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET, TNT Sports).

Shane van Gisbergen scored his third consecutive pole on a road course, posting the fastest lap in Cup qualifying Saturday at Sonoma Raceway. The Trackhouse Racing driver won the pole and race at Mexico City and repeated the feat last weekend in the Chicago Street Race.

It's becoming a recurring theme that when NASCAR heads to the road courses, Shane van Gisbergen is going to be the class of the field. On Saturday afternoon in

Shane van Gisbergen proved in his NASCAR debut to be an elite road and street course racer by winning in his first career outing.

The NASCAR Cup Series will begin its lone visit to California this year by turning laps Saturday at Sonoma Raceway. An hourlong practice will begin at 1:30 p.m. ET on the 11-turn, 1.99-mile road course, followed by qualifying for Sunday’s 110-lap race.

The sprawling Sears Point campus has transformed into a three-day hotbed of action that concludes with the sport’s best drivers battling it out Sunday.

See where your favorite NASCAR Cup Series driver will pit for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, TNT Sports/truTV, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).