When in doubt, just go crazy.And thats exactly what Shane van Gisbergen did in the opening race of the Sydney 500 on Saturday to clinch his first Supercars championship.The Holden gun finished third behind Red Bull Racing teammate Jamie Whincup for an unassailable 170-point lead with one race to go on Sunday.He becomes the first New Zealand-born driver to win an Australian touring car crown since Jim Richards in 1991.Its a pretty awesome feeling, the 27-year-old said.To finally be champion of your sport, a lifetime goal.It almost didnt happen.The Kiwi started on pole position but was jumped by Whincup and slipped back to sixth by the end of lap one.He then copped a drive-through penalty for spinning reigning champion Mark Winterbottoms Ford and fell towards the back of the grid.But a safety car with 25 laps to go helped shoot him up to ninth, before clawing his way up to third with some superb driving and brave passing.I knew people would take advantage if they had a shot and I was just too conservative, he said.I hesitated and it cost us.But once I was in that position, there was nothing to lose and I just went crazy. I hit everything except other people.Whincup, while disappointed to miss out on an unprecedented seventh title, said his intra-team rival deserved to win.Him and his crew deserve it more than anyone else, he said.The winner of the championship is the most consistent, and theyve been the most consistent.Van Gisbergen had been considered a mercurial talent since he started racing in the category in 2007 as a gung-ho 18-year-old.But, after switching to the factory-backed Red Bull outfit this season from the family-run Tekno Autosports, the 27-year-old has been incredibly consistent and measured.He finished on the podium in each of the past eight races leading up to the finale, including Sandown, Bathurst and Gold Coast.Three of those were wins, while Whincup took out the other five.Van Gisbergens hot form continued on the streets of Olympic Park, setting a new lap record in practice on Friday before smashing it again in qualifying.Having seen Shane develop since he first came in the series to where he is now, mature and settled down, has been impressive to watch, said Holden Racing Team veteran Garth Tander, who finished the race second.The drive that he put in today after what happened in the early laps, to come back on the podium the way he did, is probably a sweeter way to win the championship.The season ends with a second 74-lap race on Sunday, the last time Sydney will host the finale before it heads to Newcastle in 2017. 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I dont know if I can quantify how far off or things like that that they might be but I would say we continue to have dialogue. KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- North Alabama couldnt physically prepare for the Kansas City weather conditions it faced Saturday in a 29-3 loss to Northwest Missouri in the NCAA Division II championship game. It just wasnt possible.The temperature registered at 13 degrees with a wind chill of minus-4 at kickoff. At the same time, at North Alabamas campus in Florence, just over 600 miles away, the temperature was 70 degrees.Its not like were going to have a big snow machine out on the practice football field, quarterback Jacob Tucker said. As far getting physically used to the elements, you just cant do it.Tucker said after hed get tackled, his hands would get wet, and then as he began calling the following play, his hands would start freezing.He didnt want to use the inclement weather as an excuse for his performance, but he couldnt come up with any other conclusions.It was something that I hadnt experienced before, Tucker said. It was a challenge for me and it was a challenge that I didnt step up to, because I made some bad throws because of it.Tucker completed 15 of 41 passes for 179 yards and threw one interception in the game.Several North Alabama players warmed up in sleeveless shirts. Others warmed up without leggings on. Regardless of the Lions attempted tactics to prepare for the cold, nothing seemed to work and Northwest Missouri State blew right through North Alabama.In Bobby Wallaces 28-year head coaching career, he couldnt come up with a game that had remotely similar conditions.I coached eight years at Temple and I never saw a game like this before, Wallace said. Two of the three championships in the 90s was cold. The first was cold and rainy and the other one was just cold but we werent playing in snow.Wide receiver Dre Hall, a Tennessee native, echoeed both Tucker and Wallaces sentiments.ddddddddddddHe said he had difficulty in both timing and running his routes.It messed with us a little bit, Hall said. I remember coming off the sideline and everybody was thinking, `this snow is three inches thick. How are we going to run in it?Hall said he told his teammates that they had to pick their knees up. But even then, the receiving corps had difficulties.Not only did the receivers have a hard time running in the snow, North Alabamas ground game was dismal as well, only having 22 yards rushing through the entirety of the game.Tucker took the majority of the carries, 21 of 33, and only came away with 26 yards. Beasleys efforts on the ground didnt add much either, only having four carries for 29 yards.Wallace knew coming into the game that their rushing efforts werent going to match up evenly with Northwest Missouri.We tried to put a couple of guys back there, but neither one of them would be what you could call a 1,000-yard rusher, Wallace said. Our offensive line, we have some injuries this year and it was just a mismatch. Their defensive line is great. Its the best defensive line weve seen all year long. 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