Please join Ralph Gilles, Pres. and CEO, SRT Brand and Motorsports, along with several members of the SRT engineering team for a webchat on Thursday, Sept. 1 from 6pm-8pm EDT. They’ll discuss the status of Chrysler Group’s newest standalone brand and take your questions. Hope you can join us!
SRT Brand President/CEO Ralph Gilles talks about how SRT is designed to “amplify the basic DNA” of each brand, how each SRT vehicle has a “functional design” and how each is a “purpose-built vehicle.”
SRT Brand President/CEO Ralph Gilles talks about the “new breed” of customers that SRT Brand typically attracts. He says they’re “performance lovers” and that “SRT is a continuation of their passion.”
Gilles also talks about how accessible SRT engineers typically are to customers and enthusiasts.
SRT Brand President/CEO Ralph Gilles about how the Viper influenced him to want to work at Chrysler, the “club mentality” of the brand & enthusiasts, and what makes SRT unique vs any competitors.
Would you like a chance to experience an entire day of full-throttle action with SRT vehicle owners and performance enthusiasts just like yourself? How about getting behind the wheel of the Chrysler 300 SRT8, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, Dodge Challenger SRT8, Dodge Charger SRT8 or the legendary Dodge Viper SRT10? What if I told you that you could experience all of this in a safe and secure environment with the guidance of professional instructors from the Richard Petty Driving Experience for FREE? Well here is your chance.
LX&B car show entrants: take a picture of your vehicle staged anywhere at the 4th Annual LX & Beyond Nationals event this weekend at Quaker City Motorsports Park in Salem, Ohio on July 16-17, 2011.
Photo of your vehicle as staged at LX & Beyond should be sent to contest@SRTevents.com
Include the following:
Your vehicle photo
Your name
Your cell phone number
Your email address
Please submit only photos of your vehicle in its LX&B car show parking space. Other photos will be disqualified.
We will post all photos to an album at http://facebook.com/driveSRT. Tell your friends to “Like” the photo of your car. Whichever photo has the most “Likes” by 2pm Sunday, July 17, 2011 wins an SRT Track Experience certificate ($500 cash value) which will be awarded at the awards ceremony at 3pm.
by VHQ
April 14, 2011 , Tooele, Utah – The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR (American Club Racer) has made history at yet another storied road course.
Renowned Dodge road racer Kuno Wittmer piloted a street legal 2010 Dodge Viper ACR to a record lap of 1:59.995 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, on Monday, April 11, breaking the 2-minute mark for the first time in a production car on the 3.048-mile Outer Course configuration. The Viper ACR shattered the previous production car lap record of 2:03.86, held by Jan Magnussen in a Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 by close to 4 full seconds.
“It’s amazing to come to this world-class track and shatter the production car lap record by almost 4 seconds,” said Bryan Viger, Head of Dodge Motorsports. “We brought our street-legal Viper ACR to see what Kuno could do behind the wheel, and on his second lap he’d already gone faster than the single lap record.”
A veteran behind the wheel of the Viper on and off the track, Wittmer continues to be impressed by the performance of the Dodge Viper ACR. “Wow, what an awesome supercar!” the Montreal native said after exiting the car. “The Viper ACR is such a blast to drive at the limit, and I can honestly say that I didn’t leave an inch out there on the track and was barely braking in the corners.”
This latest achievement joins a growing list of track records for the Dodge Viper ACR. In November 2009, SRT vehicle dynamics engineer Chris Winkler lapped the 2.238-mile, Laguna Seca raceway in 1:33.92, beating the previous record by 1.1 seconds. Dutch driver Tom Coronel set a 7:22.1 production car record at the 12.9-mile Nurburgring Nordschleife in August 2008.
Dodge Viper ACR
The Dodge Viper ACR remains the ultimate purpose-built, street-legal track car since its introduction in 2008.
Powered by the venerable 8.4-liter, V-10 engine with 600 horsepower and 560 lb.-ft. of torque, the Dodge Viper ACR continues to offer extreme performance, including 0-60 mph acceleration in less than 4 seconds, quarter-mile time in the mid 11-second range and 0-100-0 mph in 11 seconds flat.
The four-wheel independent suspension features high-performance aluminum control arms and knuckles, KW suspension with two-way adjustable competition coil-over shock absorbers with remote reservoirs.
The aerodynamic package features a carbon fiber “fanged” splitter in front and adjustable carbon-fiber wing with seven-position stanchions that allow up to an amazing 1,000 lbs. of downforce at 150 mph. Lightweight wheels, two-piece slotted StopTech brake rotors and Michelin PS Cup tires round out the ACR package.
For the 2010 model year, the Dodge Viper ACR received a shorter fifth gear ratio (changing from 0.74 to 0.80) for improved high-speed acceleration and higher straightaway speeds. A new short-throw shifter also came in 2010 models for enhanced driver experience and better performance. The rear wing profile and end plates were also redesigned to further optimize the vehicle aerodynamics and improve rear yaw downforce. These changes resulted in an increase in top speed of 4 mph (to 184 mph).
