Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR is currently the fastest at Miller Motorsports Park: Corvette ZR1 breeze record

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The Dodge Viper fourth generation) will cease to be in production this year itself but before her bottom into oblivion, the Viper ensured he remains engraved in the automotive history for a long time. A record of the tour at the Miller Motorsports Park has been set when a Dodge Viper SRT10 American Club Racer (ACR) has completed the track in 2 minutes, something which has never been done before. The pilot wheel was Kuno Wittmer, and he completed the course on the 1: 59 995. It was a first time occurrence on the configuration of external courses 3.048-mile track. With this he improved the previous record of 2: 03.86 held by Jan Magnussen when he was driving a ZR1 Juel.

Wilmer had about the Dodge Viper: "the Viper ACR is such an explosion to the limit, and I can honestly say that I did not leave a thumb over there on the track and that it was barely braking in corners." This is not the only trace the Dodge Viper ACR has to his credit. He also holds the record on the Laguna Seca circuit where in 2009 he has developed time 1: 33.92 while the Nordscheife in 2008, the Viper had set the record time of 7: 22. 1.

The car is equipped with a Vq10 of 8.4 litres of displacement engine. The engine develops 600 hp and 560 lb ft or 760 Nm of torque. With this set to the car can do 0 to 60 km/h or sprint 96 km/h in under 4 seconds. The car takes about 11 seconds for covering a quarter of a mile, while for the rush of 0 to 100 km/h or 161 km/h and subsequently stalled arrival must be the car 11 seconds.

Car is also equipped with a KW four wheel independent suspension with competition driving adjustable bidirectional coil-over shock absorbers to help improve the characteristics of the handling of the car. The aerodynamics, the car has a carbon fibre splitter in the front wing and carbon fiber that makes up the back. This makes support of 1000 lbs or kg Total when the car is running at 150 km/h or 241 kph.

The package also includes lightweight wheels, StopTech brake and pneumatic rotors Michelin PS Cup also 2010 model year Dodge Viper ACR has given some upgrades which resulted in a speed of 184 mph or 296 kph.

"It is incredible to resume this world-class track and smash the record for the Tour auto production by nearly 4 seconds", said Bryan Viger, head of Dodge Motorsports. "We have brought our street-legal Viper ACR to see what Kuno could be behind the wheel, and on his second lap he already went faster than the single round record.".

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