2009 Dodge Viper SRT10® ACR breaks Nürburgring record

Posted Friday, Sep 5, 2008, 10:36 am in Company Comments Off

Last modified on Friday, Sep 5, 2008, 11:04 am.

Dodge has set a new record at Germany’s world-renown Nürburgring race track. The 2009 Dodge Viper SRT10® ACR – short for American Club Racer – broke the street-legal production car record with a third-party witnessed time of 7 minutes, 22.1 seconds.

The 12.93-mile Nürburgring, known simply as “the Ring” by enthusiasts, is a motorsport race track in Nürburg, Germany. Built in the 1920s, the Nürburgring is still in use and is widely considered the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built race track in the world. Having never tested at the Nürburgring before, SRT engineers rented the track for four hours to establish a lap time. After five hot laps, the record belonged to the Dodge Viper ACR.

The latest addition to Chrysler LLC’s Street and Racing Technology (SRT) family of performance vehicles, the 600-horsepower 2009 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR is a street-legal Viper engineered to dominate on the race track. Because it is street legal, die-hard Viper and track enthusiasts can drive their car to the race track, run it on the track at an incredible pace, and then drive it home. Among the modifications from the already capable Dodge Viper, the Dodge Viper ACR features an adjustable suspension, lightweight wheels, two piece brake rotors, street legal competition tires, and aerodynamic improvements yielding 1,000 lbs. of downforce at 150 mph — unmatched performance for under $100,000.

To pilot the Dodge Viper ACR on the Nürburgring, SRT brought in Tom Coronel, an experienced driver who has raced the Dodge Viper GTSR for the past two years in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. This event was Tom’s first time driving the Viper ACR.

The previous record time for a street-legal production vehicle that was witnessed by a third party at the Nürburgring was 7 minutes, 34 seconds. On Aug. 18, the Dodge Viper ACR shattered that time by nearly 12 full seconds.

The certified lap times for the Dodge Viper ACR at the Nürburgring were as follows:
Lap 1 7:42.7
Lap 2 7:35.0
Lap 3 7:24.1
Lap 4 7:24.9
Lap 5 7:22.1 (Record)
Lap 6 7:24.5

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