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| Cobalt Drivers Take Win and Title in VIR ST 6 Hr |
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Jamie Holtom (No. 01 Georgian Bay Motorsports Chevrolet Cobalt SS): "Winning the championship was absolutely enormous for me, personally, for my co-drivers winning the race, for my team winning the team championship, and for Chevrolet winning the manufacturers championship as well. It really couldn't have shaken out any better than it did. I'm proud of the Georgian Bay guys, they've done an amazing job. With a little bit of luck, we pulled it off. It was absolutely not a conservative approach. When you start thinking about finishing 25th, you finish 26th, so we had our sights set on No. 1 and we were lucky enough to pull it off. We had no problems at all with the car. All we did for maintenance was change the brake pads. When you can go through a six-hour race with only a brake pad change, it says a lot about the cars. When you start with as good a car as a Cobalt, and you have the Georgian Bay guys working on it, you can't go wrong?"
Eric Curran (No. 01 Georgian Bay Motorsports Chevrolet Cobalt SS): "It was a phenomenal day. I was very happy. Jamie Holtom and I have been working for three years now, and we've worked hard on this. Our goal every year is to go for a championship. Here it is, after all these years and all this hard work and a great season, we had a number of wins this season, and Jamie pulled it off. I wish I could have been there with him for the driver's championship, but I missed a couple of races. Just happy to be part of this whole program. Georgian Bay Motorsports, those guys do a great job; they work so hard at it. This (Chevrolet) Cobalt SS is awesome. To win all three is amazing. You know, we finished on the podium today, didn't win the race, but in our minds, we won it all. So we're very happy; it's been a great year."
VJ Mirzayan (No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW 330i): "I'm very happy. This was the highest BMW. I think this was the best we could have done. On the last yellow, we would have been in P1, but the other cars had more for us at the end. Matt did a great job at the end of the race. I've got to Turner Motorsports for a great year. I just hope I can be back next year and continue racing. This is the end of my third season, and I keep growing and looking forward to '09."
Matthew Bell (No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW 330i): "That was a lot of fun. We had a funky pit strategy that got us up to the front. I didn't even realize we were that far up. I figured everyone else had pitted, and as soon as we pitted we'd go back down. But we stayed up there. We just tried to set consistent lap times, and that's exactly what it took to finish up there. It was good for Turner Motorsports - they always build good consistent cars."
Owen Trinkler (No. 196 RSR Motorsports Mini Cooper S): "We just survived this one. It was a great run. BJ Zacharias and Mark Congleton did a great job, along with Randy Smalley and all of the RSR Motorsports/Cruise America team gave it their all. The car's got no Brakes left. We were short shifting and getting the good mileage the Mini gets when you short shifting it. I didn't even know where we finished (fifth), the radio died near the end. I didn't think the Mini would do good here, but that shows what a championship team RSR is. We had a rough start to the season, but BJ came on board and we had a great second half of the season with two poles, led some laps and we're getting ready for next year, hoping to come out with the new Mini turbo. We're already looking forward to '09."
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