2026 NASCAR Cup Series rookie Connor Zilisch has suggested he'd like to make an exciting racing series switch in the future.
Although he ultimately missed out on the Xfinity Series championship at Phoenix, Zilisch dominated in NASCAR's second category in 2025, earning himself a full-time move to the Cup with Trackhouse Racing.
Zilisch is always seemingly looking towards the future, however, and he has now explained that he'd love to make a one-off switch to Australian Supercars at some stage in the future.
This season, Team Penske's Austin Cindric did just that at the season finale in Adelaide, whilst Jesse Love - Zilisch's good friend and Xfinity Series champion - raced at the event in Supercars' feeder series, Super2.#
There was talk this year that Zilisch might have joined them, but back in October, he told The Athletic's Jeff Gluck: “It won’t happen this year, but hopefully down the road I want to make something like that happen.
“I always enjoy racing against the best in a different country and seeing what they have to offer.”
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Love's Super2 assessment
It would certainly be interesting to see how Zilisch got on, particularly given how difficult Love found it in Adelaide, and that wasn't even in Supercars itself.
Speaking on the Door Bumper Clear podcast recently, Love said that he was very impressed by the level of talent he had seen in the series, and admitted that he had underestimated the task in hand.
“I was okay on speed. But it was just, it was definitely harder than I thought," Love explained.
"Probably two times as hard as what I thought it was going to be going into it. They definitely kicked my a** for sure.
“I think I finished 14th and I was the biggest mover, so that was something [to] hang my hat on a little bit, but yeah, it was super hard. I felt like the worst guy in Super2 was, on our road course, better than like the fifth-place guy in Xfinity.
“There was not one guy up there that I was like, ‘Oh, this guy sucks’. It was impressive. It was very impressive.”
Having missed out on a drive in Australia, Zilisch isn't intent to wait for the Cup Series season to next get in a race car.
Instead, he'll now race in the Rolex 24 endurance race at Daytona International Speedway in January, just a week before the Cup Series' exhibition race at Bowman Gray Stadium one week later.
