Viper Attack! at VIR (video)
06-27-05, 08:33 PM
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what could get someone to cross so fast in a straight? I guess the straight wasnt wide enough ............................and he dropped a rear wheel and panicked.
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06-27-05, 08:50 PM
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The remarkable part was that it happened in the MIDDLE of the front stretch, and the Viper "exited stage left" into the expansive field to the left of the track. He slid for what looked like two time zones and never hit anything... you know you must have done something pretty spectacular in a previous life to pull that one off!
Damnest thing I've ever seen!
Though I will refrain from expresing my opinion on what exactly happen, suffice it to say that Vipers have a VERY nasty bite if not handled with inordinate caution!
Damnest thing I've ever seen!
Though I will refrain from expresing my opinion on what exactly happen, suffice it to say that Vipers have a VERY nasty bite if not handled with inordinate caution!
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06-27-05, 09:14 PM
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It looks like he lifted off the throttle in the middle of the kink on the straight right at the start finish line, and unsettled the rear end as he was blasting past the camera car
06-27-05, 11:05 PM
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Why would he lift while passing a car? More than likely either one of two things happened. Either he hit the dirt and whipped the wheel back on the track...or more likely....
he tried to get back left too fast after the pass and gave it too much throttle.
he tried to get back left too fast after the pass and gave it too much throttle.
06-28-05, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by xanbar
Why would he lift while passing a car? .
06-28-05, 12:59 AM
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This reminds me of those annoying chain-emails that tell you to look for the ghost in the picture. http://www.unmelted.com/puzzle/whatswrong.swf
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06-28-05, 01:14 AM
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I almost thought this was fake at first... WOW. Talk about lift throtttle oversteer... and I thought the damn things understeered and were kind of numb.
06-28-05, 02:17 PM
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wait, i dont understand somthing here, the video shows the out of control car going straight, in other words, the nose first then the tail followed, almost a straight line across the nose of the camera car, its not like his rear passed over first like the rear came arounds on him, ...i dont get it? did the rear come loose further back, then he over correctd and shot straight across the track in front of the camera car?
06-28-05, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackRX7Turbo
that was a viper that crossed in front of the car? It didn't look like one....
http://www.dodge.com/nav/photo/viper_srt10_3_main.jpg
The look more like a C6 now than what the old Vipers looked like.
06-28-05, 03:09 PM
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that's a pretty scary video...
and about the new viper:
i saw one on the street, highway 17 in NY
that car definitely looked great, and sounded badass
REAL sharp car
and about the new viper:
i saw one on the street, highway 17 in NY
that car definitely looked great, and sounded badass
REAL sharp car
06-28-05, 03:31 PM
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Did you see Amp's pics in the other thread? It looks like that Viper hit something in the rear. There is a pic of a Viper pretty banged up in a trailer.
Don't know though
Don't know though