Videos - Viper TA autocross and road course

[Nine Ball]

I competed in a 2-day event over this weekend, at the Optima Batteries "Ultimate Street Car" event. (see www.driveusca.com). It was at Texas Motor Speedway, in Fort Worth, TX. We had five events to compete in for points, autocross, road course, speed-stop, design & engineering, and road rally. Most of the cars attending were highly modified, driven by some well-known people in the racing scene. I'd watched a few of these events in the past, but decided to enter this one since it was only 3 hrs from home. This was my first competitive timed event for autocross and road course, and I managed to place 7th out of 16 in my class. Autocross and speed-stop were my weak points, but in road course I did well. Overall, it was a great event and I met some excellent gearheads and racers. The Viper wouldn't take much to be more competitive, mostly suspension upgrades and alignment settings, and possibly better tires. We had to use 200+ treadwear tires, so even the factory tires were too sticky for this event. I ran on my 19" Michelin Pilot Super Sports, they did well for 5-6 hard laps on this short track, before getting greasy. I found my best lap times were with the shocks in Race Mode, and the active handling in Sport Mode. Running the system full-on proved to be too intrusive on curve exit acceleration. It was 84F outside, and oil temps never went over 233F after 20 minutes of hard lapping. These cars are tough and durable.

I did manage to push these Super Sports to the limits:









Autocross Video

https://youtu.be/aTPNWqe3BK8

Road Course Video
https://youtu.be/Wabi8pyUoH0

Tony