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Published: 2013-07-31 14:49:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 476; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 4
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The No. 91 SRT Viper GTS-R, driven by Dominik Farnbacher and Marc Goossens, finished second in class at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park ALMS race, July 21, 2013. Seen here in practice, turn 5a (where else?).Related content
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Nice picture of the #91. I'm glad they brought back the GT-S, my friend has a 2001 Dodge Viper ACR in black and HRE rims. Only one in PA.
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Yeah, I missed the Vipers. I've got a few pics of earlier racing Vipers in my "other race types" gallery, aside from what's in the ALMS gallery. Vipers are great, but they're beasts and shouldn't be disrespected. A rep from Transport Canada told me back around 2004 that the average life span of a Viper (in Canada at the time) was about six hours of driving.
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Team SRT really stepped it up with this new Generation. They are beasts indeed. If you really think, Vipers can last years, but when you run it 200MPH for 6 hours, thats long, so it will take a toll on the engine, transmission, rear differential, everything.
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That's not really what he meant, though. Transport Canada compiles safety information on vehicles driven on Canadian roads, and many Vipers didn't even make it to the new owner's home, they would wreck them on the way. High performance cars demand respect, and too many people play video games and then expect the actual car to behave the same way. To paraphrase Mike Sheehan, "Alas, all too often, Vipers end up illustrating what happens when too much money, too much car, and too little talent arrive at the same place at the same time." I'm a PCA member, and the one thing the track instructors always say is that the first thousand dollars of improvements you invest in your car should be in driver training.
"When the rear end's loose, the car's fast. Loose is fast, and on the edge of out of control." - Harry Hogge
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My favorite Viper thus far has been the SRT10 ACR, but I still really like the new one 
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These are wicked fast. The older SRTs were good at Mosport because of the long straight, but they often had trouble in turn five. Neither of these had any trouble that weekend. I agree, I like this look too.
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Interesting
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There is an old joke about "a Porsche by any other name would still go off the road backwards;" the same could be said about the earlier Vipers
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That's clever, I like that a lot X)
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I have an '83 911SC, so I speak from experience
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I suppose that's a good way to tell if you've got enough power haha
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"If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower." - Mark Donohue
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I've heard that saying before, and although I haven't had the chance to drive anything of that magnitude just yet, I'll take his (and your) word for it
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I haven't driven anything of the sort either, he was talking about the Porsche 917/30 that could produce 1580 HP at full boost. In 1973 that was no small feat!
“Thank god there’s no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They’re probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.” – Carroll Shelby
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Even by today's standards, that's a ridiculous amount of power haha. And it makes it that much more impressive that even Carroll Shelby feared it!
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Yes, and that was only with two wheels giving it traction too. Many have called the 917/30 "The Can-Am Killer" because it dominated the last season, but I believe it was the Arab Oil Embargo that was the real cause.
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..and fast on a road course too!
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