30 Titles and Counting…
By Alba Colon
GM Racing Program Manager, NASCAR Nextel Cup Series
It’s always nice to start a Monday morning with your teams calling to offer their congratulations. That was the case this week as Chevrolet celebrated clinching its 30th Manufacturers’ Cup Championship.
Kevin Harvick’s win in New Hampshire on Sunday helped us secure our 30th Manufacturers’ title in the NASCAR Cup Series. We are excited for Kevin’s victory but we have also been celebrating with all of our teams, thanking them for their efforts that helped us achieve this feat. To win this championship is not an easy deal, especially given the competitiveness of the sport this year, but to clinch with nine races remaining is amazing.
The NASCAR Manufacturers’ Cup Championship is very important to us, and our teams understand that. It’s something we make very clear to all of our teams at the start of the season and throughout the year. So what makes this very special is that a variety of teams and drivers have contributed to help win this championship for us. It’s impressive that we’ve had seven different drivers contribute to our 16 wins so far this season. I really believe we have a great product, great technology, great engineers and great marketing. But we are also very fortunate to have the best teams in the business. That is the key for any manufacturer to be successful and that’s also what has helped us win another manufacturers’ title.
To win 30 Manufacturers’ championships is a great milestone. It’s a great feeling winning the championship again and even a little bit of a relief that we did it. Now we just want to do it 30 more times!
- Posted in Cars & Trucks
BRE
Yes Congrats on this great accomplishment, now lets have a TV commercial telling of the 30 GM has won and the 30 more you are going to win and for TOYOTA to be AWARE… no just kidding, good luck on thirty more GM.
Dale
Congratulations, Chevy.
Now if you want to really impress me, put some performance where I can buy it, like in my local Chevy dealer’s showroom.
As far as I’m concerned, a good starting point would be offering a supercharged Cobalt SS 4-door. It’s great that the coupe has this little jewel of an engine, but some of us want/need our power fix with more doors. And the SS 2.4L naturally aspirated engine isn’t enough!
chriss
why should chevy win, when dodge AND toyota both copied chevy’s engine? maybe it’s karma?
if gm wanted to, they could drop the LS7 into a nascar, and win. only chrysler has a pushrod v8. nascar is being shamelessly greedy by allowing ford to remain (for legacy reasons), and allowing toyota to join. death to nascar if they let 4-6 cylinder dohc builders compete with pushrod v8s!
either use production blocks, heads, cranks, or stop calling nascar ’stock car’ racing!! every other stock based racing uses weight and restrictors for parity…why can’t nascar?
how about showcasing E85? or use fuel injection? nascar has no relevance to production cars, or sales. i think this accomplishment just shows that gm can dominate in a given arena…not so much that gm cars dominate.
PacerX
“how about showcasing E85? or use fuel injection? nascar has no relevance to production cars, or sales. i think this accomplishment just shows that gm can dominate in a given arena…not so much that gm cars dominate.”
You are then aware that NASCAR itself prevents fuel injection or alternative fuels in their series, are you not?
Chris R
Wouldn’t that picture have looked even better if Harvick was actually wearing his Goodwrench colors? Seriously, Why can’t GM step up and insist that the 29 car only be in Goodwrench colors?
That said, I’m glad Chevy is doing so well in Nascar. Hopefully that will continue with that blasted car of tomorrow that Nascar insists on mandating.
Charles Rohde
I’ve just spent alot of time viewing the new Holden RWD car’s on Zeta. From the Omega to the Caprice it reminds me of what Chevy was all about, a broad range of models built off a single platform. That GM spent a billion on this platform and we can’t buy it here makes no sense. I say eliminate Buicks and Pontiacs, let Saturn due the FWD econo stuff. It’s time to give Chevy a full line of RWD/AWD cars and SUV’s built off Zeta to compliment their fine line of fullsized trucks and SUV’s
Charles Rohde
Congrat’s to Mr Wagner for the end to the alliance talks with R/N. You have done a terrific job on the GM turn around and I’m hoping it had to alittle input from here. I just hope you continue to listen and maybe continue to make changes.
Rick