COBO CUP 2025 Newsletter – Volume 3

Bell wins at COTA

#20-Christopher Bell won the Echopark Texas Grand Prix NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas. The win is his 2nd win of the year, 1st at COTA and 11th career win. #24-William Byron finished 2nd followed by pole winner #45-Tyler Reddick, #9-Chase Elliott, #8-Kyle Busch, #88-Shane Van Gisbergen, #17-Chris Buescher, #4-Noah Gragson, #48-Alex Bowman, and #34-Todd Gilliland.

Kyle Busch lead 42 laps, but was passed by Bell with five laps remaining.  Bell had to hold off a late charge by Byron but was able to win by just under a half second. Connor Zilisch, making his Cup debut, was involved in an accident midway through the race and finished 37th. There were 20 lead changes among 9 drivers and 4 cautions for 15 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 73.025mph.

Stage Winners

• Stage 1 was won by #23-Wallace
• Stage 2 was won by #60-Preece

Perfect Team (per category): William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Kyle Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Michael McDowell & John Hunter Nemechek for 621 points.

Worst Picks (per category): Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Ty Gibbs, Daniel Suarez, Cole Custer, Josh Berry & Cody Ware.        

Facts: Jonzn wins at COTA with 236 points ($100). They beat Dorraine by 5 points. Northern Base takes over the standings lead by 1 point over Crash Boys.   

Standings Leaders:

• WTAF (2 weeks)
• Northern Base

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to challenge the points. Race winners will be paid out once challenge deadline has expired.

Top Gainer of the Week

• Jonzn moving from 132^nd to 22^nd (110 spots)

Biggest Dump of the Week

• All-Can Win from 25^th to 152^nd (127 spots)

Penalties

• Car #34: 10 points (Daytona 500)
• Car #51: 10 points (Daytona 500)

Bottom of the Barrel: Beamer Racing with 314 points. That’s the fight for the 2026 free entry.    

Pole Pool

• Reddick (COTA)
• Blaney (Atlanta)  

Cobo Cup Sponsors:   

• Fred’s Auto & Equipment Service Centre Inc @www.fredsauto.ca
• Hammer DJ Services @ www.hammerdjservices.ca
• Dry N Shine Auto Spa @www.drynshineautospa.com
• Splitsville Hamilton – the place the Cobo Cup crew parties
• ILich Construction & Design

• Power Athletic Message

Social Media

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Next Race: 

Race #4 of 36: Sunday March 9^th, 2025 at Phoenix, AZ on TSN. Green Flag: 3:30pm                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

COBO CUP 2025 Standings Leader: Northern Base                                                                                                                                                     cobocup@yahoo.ca