JonyyB

<img src="https://www.cobaltss.net/articles/teamcobalt_blue.jpg" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5">VIRginia International Raceway - Saturday, September 30, 2006

WARREN, Mich. -- Team Cobalt began the 2006 Grand-Am Cup Series season with the goal of winning Chevrolet's first Street Tuner class Manufacturer's Championship, and heading into the final race of the season next weekend at VIRginia International Raceway, the goal is still within reach.

Powered by five Chevy Cobalt SS Supercharged race cars and supported by GM Performance Division's experienced team of race engineers, Team Cobalt will look to finish as far ahead of the competition from Acura and BMW as possible during the six hours of racing on Sunday, Oct. 8 to secure Chevrolet's first title in the Series.

"The math is fairly simple," said GM Performance Division's Ken Wasmer, whose engineering team provides technical support for all Cobalt SS Supercharged entrants in the Grand-Am Cup Series. "If a Cobalt SS Supercharged wins the race, Chevrolet wins the Manufacturer's Championship."

With five wins on the season going into the 2006 finale, Chevy is locked in a fierce battle atop the Manufacturer's points standings, trailing by only two points.

Drivers Jamie Holtom and Eric Curran have led the pack for Team Cobalt in 2006 with four wins in the #00 Georgian Bay Motorsports/SCADAPack Cobalt, and will look to duplicate their season-opening victory at VIR this past April.

In addition to Curran and Holtom, the #01 Georgian Bay car will be driven by Jamie's father, Jim, and Daniel Colembie. They've finished on the podium once this year, and Colembie has qualified on the pole. There will also be a third #0 car piloted by Bo Roach and Tom Lepper.

Team Cobalt California's two cars will be driven by VJ Mirzayan and John Trefethen, and by Aaron Povoledo and team newcomer Christopher Zakin. Povoledo and Brian O'Shaugnessey earned the Manufacturer's points for Chevy at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah on Sep. 2 with a ninth place finish.

Team Cobalt California will have some additional pit crew assistance on race day as several members, volunteers and parents of Special Olympics Virginia - Halifax County Program will help prepare the team's two racecars and then join them at the finish line.

Powell Motorsport has also contributed to Chevy's position in the 2006 points standings with a win by Marc-Antoine Camirand and Dave Thilenius at Trois-Rivières on Aug. 6.

"Team Cobalt has great depth and a number of talented drivers in its ranks, and when you combine that with solid car preparation by all our teams and excellent pit stop strategy, we're hard to beat," added Wasmer. "There were 33 cars from nine manufacturers here in April and we expect even more for this race, so our preparation and strategy will be crucial."

The GM Performance Division offers all Cobalt SS Supercharged entrants a contingency program along with the engineering technical support currently provided at every Grand-Am Cup race. The program awards contingency money for every Top Five finish: $5,000 to win, $3,000 for second, $2,000 for third, $1,000 for fourth and $500 for fifth place.

Engineered by GM Performance Division, the Cobalt SS Supercharged is the most powerful and agile of the model line, with a suspension developed on Germany's famed Nurburgring race track and a 2.0-liter ECOTEC Supercharged engine named among the industry's 10-Best Engines for 2006 by the editors of Ward's Communications.

GM Performance Division develops compelling, low volume, high-performance production and specialty vehicles, including the 205 hp Chevrolet Cobalt SS Supercharged, 395 hp Chevy Trailblazer SS and 400hp Chevy SSR; the 400 hp CTS-V, 469 hp STS-V and 443 hp XLR-V from the Cadillac V-Series; and the 205 hp Saturn ION Red Line.

by: by Dave Arnold
source: http://www.whowon.com/Results.asp?Tr...StoryID=205049

Ljavy17

Kick booty.

RaineMan

w00t!!

Hey Jonel...see if you can get us some of those cool hats they have!

JonyyB

I'll give it a shot, who knows

RaineMan

heck... I'd pay for some... b/c the Cobalt hats that GM sells at the chevymall site are lame...

I saw the drivers on TV... I want one of their hats!

FLCobalt

i wonder what all they have done .

Cobalt_Supercharged

YAY GM!

Take a look at the back of the ECOTEC build book, they show everything they have done, with the exception of the new rule that the Cobalts have to run street legal exhaust. I guess they were too dominant and people wanted the field more level.

OniMirage

screw the hats gimme the cars buahahahaha. go GM!

sealy

sweet! kick their *****!

yellowcobaltss05

Cobalts will own!

Scythe_Snake

Woot! Go Quick-balt! =p

207GT04

yeah seriously check into getting them hats if they are the ones im thinking of i want them too. And be willing to spend some money for one.

calmb4dastorm

With all this domination, people still call our cars "import-tards." WTF? I say if and when our cobalts win the Manufacturer's championship, we should rub it in some hater noses. Muhahahahahahah!!!!!

RaineMan

I thought they ran the Corsa sport exhaust anyways??

That's street legal...

OniMirage

if I am not mistaken they run an exhaust more restrictive than stock. You can't even hear them when they pass by like 10 feet from you.

vandy0419

Here is one thing they have we can buy. It is a whole new control arm:

http://www.powellmotorsport.com/inde...pid=1&offset=0

$675 if you supply your own control arms in good condition. Powell Race Shop in Canada actually built the Time Attack Cobalt...

automobiliben

Hmm, are you sure that they built the Time Attack? I interviewed a guy this week who interned at GM and during his internship he helped tune the suspension, he said it was built by GM.

vandy0419

I'm guessing it was them...seeing it is under their race car build section and they talk like GM Performance division donated parts along with a bunch of other places, but this is all written as they did it.

http://powellmotorsport.com/modules....bum.php&page=3

automobiliben

Maybe they buil it and he just helped tune it, after talking to 100+ kids, I really quit paying attention.

LittleStealthSS

That is the same SS that they built on Street Tuner Challenge wasn't it???

I know that was BUILT at a place that was NOT a GM shop, so maybe that was powell. They had GM guys there all the time helping out with tech support, parts and execution.

Also... I saw the California Cobalt team up close back @ beaverrun this summer. NICE setup, and nice people as well. I want that CF lower lip for the front. That was sweet.

Also, they had a nice adjustable front suspension with remote resivours.

automobiliben

Yeah, I have already tried getting in contact with that company. He sent me a list of the stuff that they make and then I sent him an e-mail back for a parts list, check this thread out:

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums//showthread.php?t=5668

domin8_gt

iTrader: (1)

I went to qualifying at Miller Motorsports and got to go down into the pit area. Got like 127 pics and 3 vids. Will post up some time. I talked to the crew chief after qualifying while all of the Cobalts were being inspected by race officials (probably because they dominated the times) and he told me the cars were completely stock except for a stripped interior and they can have an adjustable shock setup. The reason the cars are so quiet is that they have factory exhaust and can't mod the airbox. I'll post a link to my pics sometime, Including the one where the srt tries hanging with the cobalts in a corner and goes into a slide because his tires couldn't hold and went over the rumble strip.

Ric

Well did Cobalt win?

sealy

wondering the same thing...

chipmonk212121

me toooo!!