Ring War Continues,

[Jean Todt 4]

Ofcourse, some memebers would rant at me for starting this thread, and say GTR is blah blah, I am just wondering if setting records in ring is becoming easier. I didn't know a viper (modified or unmodified) could corner so well.

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080828.006/do...in-7min-221secs

Take that Nissan and General Motors, you thought you had the Nurburgring record in the bag, but you didn't see this one coming. The Dodge Viper ACR has lapped the famous circuit in just 7 minutes 22.1 seconds, slicing more than 4 seconds off the time of the Corvette ZR1 and around seven seconds off the time of the Nissan GT-R.

The story behind the run started when the Viper Club of America got so p**sed off at seeing its arch rival take the lap record, that the bugged the Dodge Street & Racing Technology team until they relented. The team then hired the ring for half a day on August 18th, shipped not one, but two Viper ACRs over to Germany and hired a pro WTCC driver Tom Coronel who has experience of racing in the 24 hours at Nurburgring.

Apart from a Racetech seat with a six-point harness, both of the ACRs used in the run were factory spec fitted with the Hard Core package. This package is popular amongst 10% of the Viper's customers, it sheds 40 pounds off the curb weight by removing a number of non-essential components such as the audio system, trunk carpet, rear cabin sound insulation, tire inflator kit, hood insulator, and steel battery cover.

Now comes the point of whether this lap record can be officially counted. The laps completed by the GT-R and ZR1 were reported to be in completely unmodified factory spec cars, however after early warm up lap times of 7:42 and a 7:35 some slight modifications were made. Colonel complained of some slight understeer on medium to high speed corners so the engineers stiffened the front and rear dampers.

The record run was a satisfactory conclusion for the team however there is belief this model could get well below the 7:20 mark.

[dribbler 6]

Ring war sounds like a term used for a homosexual love triangle.

[Quiet One 15]

Ring war sounds like a term used for a homosexual love triangle.

It's not? Thanks for saving me the bother of reading through Shaliq's post, then.

[Jean Todt 4]

Ring war sounds like a term used for a homosexual love triangle.

, sorry, i didn't know that!

[Kopite Girl 0]

Ring war sounds like a term used for a homosexual love triangle.

I thought that JRR Tolkien had come back from the dead and wrote another book.

[Rainmaster 7]

I thought that JRR Tolkien had come back from the dead and wrote another book.

[Argento Reloaded 1]

It seems it took the entire 20th century the americans to aware how to design a "corner capable car"... you know the earth is no flat and no Straight line!

[Jean Todt 4]

American cars are getting better.

[dribbler 6]

I used to be of the opinion that the reason American cars felt like jelly on the road was down to a lack of know how. But when you go out to the States and actually drive an American car on American roads it all makes sense. The expansive nature of the country and the relatively straight roads do not lend themselves to sharp handling, hard riding European and especially British tastes.

[shampion 0]

The Viper is a fine automoble!

[mikathegreat2 2]

Ofcourse, some memebers would rant at me for starting this thread, and say GTR is blah blah, I am just wondering if setting records in ring is becoming easier. I didn't know a viper (modified or unmodified) could corner so well.

The Yanks are getting smarter at making cars by not just copying off Ferrari!

[Jean Todt 4]

I used to be of the opinion that the reason American cars felt like jelly on the road was down to a lack of know how. But when you go out to the States and actually drive an American car on American roads it all makes sense. The expansive nature of the country and the relatively straight roads do not lend themselves to sharp handling, hard riding European and especially British tastes.

True, Japanese cars too were just built to travel from A TO B, but now they are changing.