stradman
11-22-2019, 12:53 PM
Hi Guys
I was recently drove down to a 2 day track event in Dijon in France. Weather was sadly not at its best, however managed to turn the event into a good one. Most of the people at the event were friends fromother track events so it was great for all us like minded individuals to get together again. I brought along the ACR (drove it down) whilst my mechanic trailered my 996.2 GT3 there.On the first day I used the 996 whilst the ACR was set for the second day. This video shows highlights and elements of the trip there and track footage. For some cool 996 battles at Dijon you can check out my other videos on my channel!
It was my 2nd time at Dijon(last year I only brought the 996 there) and it was my first time with the ACR there. Its a short technical circuit-ex Formula 1- but great fun. The ACR was fine there, although I needed to tweak the rebound compression towards the middle/end of the day. Had some difficulty with 5th gear. Not sure what its related to although it certainly doesn't like being speed shifted. Also had to be careful with the throttle inputs-the 9.0 is a beast and as we had some semi damp conditions on the day the ACR would be quite squirrly if you were too heavy footed with the pedal. Definitely more improvement to come at this circuit with the ACR(although interestingly with the 996 I extracted all of its potential-and then some). But taming a 400hp car is different to an 800 hp one!!
Btw there were 4 Viper ACR's there on the day-including mine!! The other 3 ACR's were trailered from Sweden!! Its pretty much unheard of in Europe to see 4 ACRs on the same day at the same track. So it was good fun seeing them there, although they were more "gentlemen racers" rather than nutters like myself and not caning the cars as much!
Whilst there there were a couple of full blown Race Lambo Huracan GT3's doing some testing there and were very fast. Had a bit of a tussle with the slower driver of the 2 although of course its hard to argue with a
properly stripped out and slammed racer like that on any circuit!
Anyway hope you guys enjoy the video!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYArGFe-8bQ
I was recently drove down to a 2 day track event in Dijon in France. Weather was sadly not at its best, however managed to turn the event into a good one. Most of the people at the event were friends fromother track events so it was great for all us like minded individuals to get together again. I brought along the ACR (drove it down) whilst my mechanic trailered my 996.2 GT3 there.On the first day I used the 996 whilst the ACR was set for the second day. This video shows highlights and elements of the trip there and track footage. For some cool 996 battles at Dijon you can check out my other videos on my channel!
It was my 2nd time at Dijon(last year I only brought the 996 there) and it was my first time with the ACR there. Its a short technical circuit-ex Formula 1- but great fun. The ACR was fine there, although I needed to tweak the rebound compression towards the middle/end of the day. Had some difficulty with 5th gear. Not sure what its related to although it certainly doesn't like being speed shifted. Also had to be careful with the throttle inputs-the 9.0 is a beast and as we had some semi damp conditions on the day the ACR would be quite squirrly if you were too heavy footed with the pedal. Definitely more improvement to come at this circuit with the ACR(although interestingly with the 996 I extracted all of its potential-and then some). But taming a 400hp car is different to an 800 hp one!!
Btw there were 4 Viper ACR's there on the day-including mine!! The other 3 ACR's were trailered from Sweden!! Its pretty much unheard of in Europe to see 4 ACRs on the same day at the same track. So it was good fun seeing them there, although they were more "gentlemen racers" rather than nutters like myself and not caning the cars as much!
Whilst there there were a couple of full blown Race Lambo Huracan GT3's doing some testing there and were very fast. Had a bit of a tussle with the slower driver of the 2 although of course its hard to argue with a
properly stripped out and slammed racer like that on any circuit!
Anyway hope you guys enjoy the video!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYArGFe-8bQ