You guys just hear Dom say at Sebring they are going back to the 'Ring to attempt to re take the record?!
You guys just hear Dom say at Sebring they are going back to the 'Ring to attempt to re take the record?!
I just heard Kuno say " It would be nice to go back and try for a new record" That would be AWESOME. Bring on the New ACR Talk.
Will it be a T/A? If so better snag up one of those record breakers before they are all sold.
Bruce
He didn't give specifics on the car, just said they would be back soon on a live interview on FS1.
Awesome. Hopefully in a new ACR!
I still think an ACR will arrive before a vert.
I agree but if aero didn't matter Formula 1, ALMS, and any other road coarse race car would be shaped like Salt flat cars.
And the straight line performance improvement came from the revised trans gearing not the updated wing lip. The 2010 trans gearing is the best Dodge has used for the Vipers, why they didn't use it on the 2013's is strange.
It's just my opinion, maybe it will be faster I just seriously doubt it.
We all would love to see the results, but as a manufacturer one would not want to publish if old beat new.
Bruce
There is no way the TA will get the record. 918 has a 6:57 lap time and the P1 is rumored to have close to 6:30. With that being said it might be able to make a run just to beat the GTR Nismos 7:08 time.
I think they should just save it for the ACR. That would be awesome if the next ACR could get a time under 7:00. Also hopefully they give that Green SRT a different wing, like the posts above said it just doesn't look right.
Ok...I'll admit. I smirked.
BUT...McLaren P1, Porsche 918, LaFerrari.
All three of those have been itching or have itched Nurburgring already. Just saying.
--RS
Is their goal to beat the awesome Nismo GTR at the Ring or who leads the record now?
I thought the wing wasn't making it on the green GT car? I actually liked the way it looked.
Hope the new ACR has the ability but 918 & P1 made incredible times. I also absolutely love the Gen IV ACR color scheme of white with black thick stripe and red thin drivers side stripe; hope that look makes its way to the V.
Interesting how the GTS-R beat the Corvette today at Sebring today too; the performance of the new Z06 seems really incredible. I'd like to see the new ACR have a more aggressive aero than the Z06 though; it's all about the wing.
And if you watched the documentary on the 2010's run than you know just how few laps they had to set the record. That that I see it going much faster than it did , but it would have been interesting to see how fast it would have gone had they had two full days of dry weather.
I don't know the reasoning why Dodge stopped after only running a few laps and beating the record. Maybe it was to send the message that they could take down the record with very little effort, but I would rather see them put more laps in making the time so unreachable, that everybody that tries, fails.
That was all the time they had that day. They rented the track the two days prior and it rained or was wet the entire time. Track officials (or whoever) gave them a very small window the third day between other events to make a run. If each lap is 7 minutes and you make adjustments between the laps it doesn't give you too many chances if they gave them 30 minutes to an hours worth of private run time.
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