Shane van Gisbergen extended his winning streak to two straight and three victories in the last five weeks with yet another dominating run on a road course.

The New Zealander once again showed he’s in a completely different class on road and street courses than his rivals as he led 97 of 110 laps Sunday to win from pole at Sonoma Raceway.

All three of his wins this year have been from pole — which tied him with Jeff Gordon for a NASCAR record of three consecutive road course victories from the top starting spot.

Gordon did it between the 1998 and 1999 seasons.

Victory number four for van Gisbergen — who stunned NASCAR in 2023 when he popped into the debut Chicago street course race from Australian V8 Supercars and won — seemed a given before teams even arrived at the picturesque course in California wine country. His rivals have lamented that “SVG” has a unique braking technique he mastered Down Under that none of them — all oval specialists — can ever learn.

That win in Chicago two years ago led van Gisbergen to move to the United States for a career change driving stock cars for Trackhouse Racing.

Van Gisbergen is the fastest driver to win four Cup Series races since Parnelli Jones in 1969.

Chase Briscoe was second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and was followed by Chase Elliott in a Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.

The mid-season tournament that pays $1 million to the winner is down to four drivers.

Alex Bowman finished 25th and eliminated Ty Dillon, who finished 26th. Tyler Reddick (11th) knocked out Ryan Preece (16th), John Hunter Nemecheck knocked out teammate Erik Jones as they finished 21st and 22nd, and Zane Smith, with a seventh-place finish, eliminated Ty Gibbs.

Bowman, at eighth, is the highest-seeded driver still in the challenge, which debuted this year.

WNBA

Leonie Fiebich scored 21 points and the Liberty rallied from a 19-point deficit in the first half to beat the Atlanta Dream 79-72 on Sunday in New York.

Breanna Stewart added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Liberty (14-6).

Fiebich’s hot shooting helped rally New York from an 11-point halftime deficit. Her consecutive 3-pointers near the end of the third quarter gave the Liberty their first lead since early in the game.

Allisha Gray scored 16 points to lead Atlanta (12-9) which was without All-Star Rhyne Howard because of a knee injury.

Mystics 74, Storm 69: Brittney Sykes scored 10 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter, Sonia Citron added 17 points and Washington won late Sunday in Seattle.

Kiki Iriafen finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds for Washington (11-10) and her six double-doubles this season are tied with Chamique Holdsclaw for franchise’s single-season rookie record.

Ezi Magbegor scored a season-high 19 points, Nneka Ogwumike added 16 for the Storm.

Chicago Sky guard Ariel Atkins will switch from the Unrivaled 3-on-3 league to the Athletes Unlimited 5-on-5 league this winter.

Athletes Unlimited, in its fifth season, will be held in Nashville for a second straight year beginning Feb. 4.

The league features 40 players competing over four weeks with a $500,000 prize pool and rules set by the players.

NBA

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama expects to play this coming season and has been fully cleared after dealing with deep vein thrombosis in his shoulder for the past few months, he told the French newspaper L’Equipe in remarks published Monday.

CYCLING

British rider Simon Yates won the first mountainous stage of the Tour de France on Monday and Irish rider Ben Healy was consoled by taking the yellow jersey.

Healy was nominated the most combative rider of the day after forcing the initiative on the 10th stage, but Yates — who won the Giro d’Italia last month — timed his break perfectly on the final climb to win a stage for the third time.

Dutch rider Thymen Arensman was 9 seconds behind, while Healy finished third, 31 seconds behind Yates.

Three-time Tour champion Tadej Pogacar finished farther back alongside main rival Jonas Vingegaard and French rider Lenny Martinez with a gap of 4 minutes, 51 seconds.

It meant Healy, who claimed his first stage victory on Thursday, took the overall lead, 29 seconds ahead of Pogacar.

Remco Evenepoel was third, 1:29 behind, and two-time Tour champion Vingegaard 1:46 behind in fourth.

Stage 10 took the riders on an arduous 165.3-kilometer route in the Massif Central — France’s south-central highland region — from Ennezat through seven category two climbs. It finished on the ascent of Puy de Sancy — the region’s highest peak — after 2 miles of an 8% gradient climb.