Chevy Cobalts To Compete At the Upcoming KONI Challenge
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Are you an aficionado of those Chevy Cobalts? It seems that an air of positive vibe has been delighting your team. And you feel the bliss too.
As the 2007 KONI Challenge Series season winds down, the teams that run the Chevy Cobalt SS Supercharged in the ST class have only two chances left to rack up additional wins against some of the world’s most competitive brands, Who Won reported. Although Miller Motorsports Park near Toole, Utah is one of the more challenging tracks on the circuit with 24 corners distributed throughout 4.5 miles, Jamie Holtom and Eric Curran who share the No. 01 Georgian Bay Motorsports/SCADAPack Cobalt have had success at the desert road course, with Holtom putting the car on the pole position in the series’ first-ever qualifying session there, the report added.
"Even though we’ve had several rule changes since the series last raced at Miller, we’re expecting to have a successful outing based on our performance there a year ago," said Dwight Woodbridge, KONI Challenge Series program manager for GM Racing. "It’s a technical track and that favors our cars and detail-oriented teams. It will be hot, no doubt, but probably no worse than at Barber Motorsports Park where our cars seemed to perform quite nicely despite the heat."
"That was a pretty phenomenal lap I put down here last year," said Holtom. "I think I managed to qualify a second ahead of the field. Hopefully we’ll be able to repeat that. With the long straightaways, the competition adjustments that Grand-Am has made have helped quite a bit, so we feel we’re more in contention than we were. I think with the combination of good high-speed handling - which is what Miller is all about - and the straight-line speed that the Cobalt has been able to improve on, I think we can do well."
At Barber Motorsports Park, Holtom and Curran inked their first win this season. They also held the pole position. From the previous race, aficionados should be feeling confident about the upcoming event.
"With the combined field, you don’t want to be passed by the leader if you’re not the first car in the ST field," explained Holtom. "Unless you’re leading the ST field, getting passed by the race leader is bad because if a full-course caution happens, you can end up a lap down. Then you’ll have to use pit strategy to your advantage to try and get back on the lead lap."
Kurt Kossmann will again co-drive the No. 53 Predator Auto Sport Chevrolet Cobalt. Two other Cobalt SS Superchargeds will join the event, the No. 138 GS Motorsports car of Gunter Schmidt, Andrew Danyliw and Steve Kent and the No. 06 Project Motorsports Cobalt of Derek DeBoer, Tom Smurzynski and Mallory Smurzynski.
The combined class KONI Challenge Series race is set on Friday, 14th of this month at 3:00 in the afternoon MDT and will run 200 miles (45 laps) or to a time limit of 2.5 hours.