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If you"re bored of N rburgring records, you might want to move along and read a different story. But before you do, this one"s different, because there"s plenty of underdog spirit about it.Keen for the Dodge Viper to end production on a blaze of glory, members of the owners" association set up a crowdfunding page to make a Ring record attempt happen. And they picked the mad, end-of-line 645bhp Dodge Viper ACR for the job.The spoiler alert is that no record was gained, unless you go into pedantic sub-classes of manual rear-wheel-drive coupes with V8s, or suchlike. But a 7m 01.3s lap means the ACR got within four seconds of the tech-rich, all-wheel-drive Porsche 918 Spyder and nine seconds of the aero-rich, also all-wheel-drive Lamborghini Huracan Performante.Two Vipers were used for the record, but sadly one of them crashed out with no one hurt, thankfully before the seven-minute barrier could be limboed under.Of course the world of Ring times is infamously murky, with the lack of rules, regulations and governing body. So it"s fun to celebrate a car where we don"t have to argue about the merits of its actual victory, and instead focus on a moral victory.Are we right: is an owners" club raising a bit of cash and setting up their own record attempt easier to get behind than a manufacturer taking along lorry-loads of support or even developing their own tyre to take Ring victory?Watch Chris Harris drive the Dodge Viper ACR hereShare this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 4 Sep 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9048
If you"re bored of N rburgring records, you might want to move along and read a different story. But before you do, this one"s different, because there"s plenty of underdog spirit about it.Keen for the Dodge Viper to end production on a blaze of glory, members of the owners" association set up a crowdfunding page to make a Ring record attempt happen. And they picked the mad, end-of-line 645bhp Dodge Viper ACR for the job.The spoiler alert is that no record was gained, unless you go into pedantic sub-classes of manual rear-wheel-drive coupes with V8s, or suchlike. But a 7m 01.3s lap means the ACR got within four seconds of the tech-rich, all-wheel-drive Porsche 918 Spyder and nine seconds of the aero-rich, also all-wheel-drive Lamborghini Huracan Performante.Two Vipers were used for the record, but sadly one of them crashed out with no one hurt, thankfully before the seven-minute barrier could be limboed under.Of course the world of Ring times is infamously murky, with the lack of rules, regulations and governing body. So it"s fun to celebrate a car where we don"t have to argue about the merits of its actual victory, and instead focus on a moral victory.Are we right: is an owners" club raising a bit of cash and setting up their own record attempt easier to get behind than a manufacturer taking along lorry-loads of support or even developing their own tyre to take Ring victory?Watch Chris Harris drive the Dodge Viper ACR hereShare this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 4 Sep 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9048
