Nissan takes fuel cell vehicle on run of the 'Ring originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

For you Cobalt fans, GM race driver and director of high-performance vehicle operations, John Heinricy, gives the 2008 Cobalt SS Turbocharged a sound thrashing on the Nurburgring. Even better, he talks you through it for much of the way. There's an interlude where he gets quiet, and if you didn't hear the car's tires squealing you'd think he was doing nothing more than going grocery shopping. So the car doesn't best the Nissan GT-R's lap time -- the track was wet, see -- but you can at least get a good idea of what the quite-capable Cobalt can do. That is, if you have a professional racer at the wheel. Follow the jump to check out the whole video.

[Source: GM Inside News]

Gallery: 2008 Chevy Cobalt SS

Continue reading VIDEO: 2008 Chevy Cobalt SS Turbo runs the ring

VIDEO: 2008 Chevy Cobalt SS Turbo runs the ring originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

We thought that the Trackpedia "wiki" was a great idea when it originally launched, but now Billy Newport and his crew have an even better reason to visit the racetrack database - in-vehicle telemetry data and analysis.

Looking at GPS data - and getting some assistance with interpreting it - is certainly a good way to understand where better drivers are going faster, and beats the heck out of trying to ask better drivers how fast they're going at different areas of the track (there's a lot of things we're looking at while on the track, but the speedometer isn't one of them). Good drivers may certainly understand the art of going fast, but explaining how is often a different matter all together. Being able to put numbers to someone's performance is arguably the best way to understand the subtleties that go into piecing together a quick lap.

Currently, Trackpedia has data available for Brainerd International Speedway, and we definitely hope to see more of this for other tracks.

[Source: Trackpedia

Trackpedia now offering telemetry data and analysis originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 02 May 2006 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.