“We’re going to really listen to our owners and see what we can do to make the last 500 cars as special as possible, as collectible as possible,” Dodge President and CEO Ralph Gilles said after the 2010 Viper ACR broke the lap speed record at Laguna Seca. Not only will that include a special [...]
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Lap of Luxury: The Viper’s Record-Breaking Lap Recap
Posted on: November 30, 2009 - 6:25 pm
It was quite a day. For anyone who couldn’t join us for our special live coverage of the 2010 Viper ACR’s first track test at Laguna Seca last week, you missed out on some genuine automotive history outside Monterey, California (but don’t worry, you can take a spin through it here).
Dodge had set out to [...]
8:23 am: Your Morning Cup of Recap Includes Viper In-Car Video
Posted on: November 25, 2009 - 8:30 am
Want to feel a bit of the knuckle-whitening forces endured by driver Chris Winkler yesterday as he careened around a few of the sharp turns of the hallowed Laguna Seca racetrack? At left you can watch the new record-breaking Viper from a riveting in-car perspective.
10:24 pm: More from Ralph Gilles’s Talk on the New Viper
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 10:31 pm
At left you can watch the full version of the post-record speech by Ralph Gilles, President and CEO for Dodge Brand and Head of Design. In it he introduces the new 2010 Dodge Viper and reveals that a special “Laguna Seca” edition of the Viper (to be called the “1:33″ special edition) will be produced [...]
7:23 pm: Watch the Force of the Viper ACR
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 7:33 pm
See a great quick clip of one of Chris Winkler’s later runs almost shaking our camera off the wall. He was trying various lines, and this one obviously brought him a little closer than we anticipated…
6:57 pm: Wallpaper of the Record-Breaking 2010 Dodge Viper ACR
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 6:57 pm
You asked for bigger images, so here’s the first batch. We expect to see the desktops of every office in America altered by lunchtime tomorrow, so you’d better get crackin’!
5:21 pm: Ralph Gilles on Building the Legend of Dodge
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 5:25 pm
“We came out here to test and explore the limits of the car,” Ralph Gilles says. “This is a very respected track. There’s some history here. So at the back of our hearts there was some pull to come back here.” Just after the record-breaking run, Gilles shed his own race suit (for just a [...]
4:40 pm: Standing in the Winner’s Circle
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 5:00 pm
Ralph Gilles congratulates driver Chris Winkler on his record-breaking lap in the 2010 Viper ACR (before sending him back out on the track to try a few more runs), which shattered the previous production car record of 1:35.075 by more than a full second.
Breaking News: 2010 Viper ACR Breaks the Track Record at Laguna Seca
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 4:31 pm
Chris Winkler and the Viper crew set out this morning to test out the new Viper ACR on a track for the first time — and in the course of that testing managed to set a new course record at Laguna Seca for a production car.
At 12:26 Pacific time, after six hot laps and [...]
3:42 pm: The Viper ACR Breaks the Track Record
Posted on: November 24, 2009 - 3:51 pm
After six screaming hot laps around Laguna Seca, Chris Winkler, testing the 2010 Viper ACR, just broke the track record with a scorching time of 1:33.915 on lap seven.
Watch the clip to get a feel for the raw power of that Viper crossing the line in record time.
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