Dodge Viper Celebrity/Athlete Summit.
This week, we brought two ACR-X's to Miller Motorsports Park in Utah for Dodge's Dual in the Desert.
We just arrived today and started snapping some pictures of all the cool cars that dodge brought for the celebrities to Race.
Be sure check back over the week for updates and results after these guys go out tomorrow and start tearing these Vipers up!
This will be a little bit different than the Viper Cup Last year. We were told it will be a one hour long race with a 5 minute pit-stop to change drivers. Its going to be a great time with all these Celebrities on track from Kyle Busch, Roger Penske, Kuno Whittmar, Carey Hart, and bunchs of others I havent seen yet. The ART car will be driven by Maryeve Dufault this weekend 
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ART Viper in-car footage of the Texas Mile
This is the official video from the ART camp. It has numerous angles of the run from several diffent cameras.
Texas Mile Recap. ART Viper fastest car of the weekend! New Viper Record!
This weekend at the Texas Mile was insane! The amount of cars runnning big number seemed very small in comparison to last year. None the less the ART Viper put down the fastest Mph for a car over the three day weekend.
Saturday morning, the ART crew was up bright and early preparing the car. About 7-8 cars made it down the track before the Hinson Corvette crashed and took out the the Timing System. Fortunately the driver was ok and the racing resumed about 2 hours later. About 11:30 the Viper made its first pass at 239 mph for the day.
A quick pull of the logs and Shane T says the boost didn't raise as expected. Fortunatly we did an little testing on the dyno a few days prior and found that the fresh air intake tubing could be removed with no raise in engine intake temps. Removing the Tubing before the turbo proved we could also run much higher boost levels.
The Last pass of the day the car went an astonishing 240.9 mph. Unfortunately the boost cut was set at 28 psi and the car violently shook in 5th gear trying
March 2011 Texas Mile Pictures
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There were a ton of cool supercars at this years event, although not as many big hitters. The red Porsche was my next favorite next to the ART viper
it would have been cool to see the cars run back to back of each other. Maybe next time someone can cordinate some of the fast cars to run together.
Another video of the Hinson Corvette Crash
This time a slightly better video of the Hinson Corvette Flipping after a Drag Radial Exploded at over 200+mph.
Texas Mile Hinson Corvette Crash
Saturday at the Texas Mile the 106mm Hinson Corvette barrel rolled at over 200mph right in front my eyes at the end of the Mile. Here's the footage. Credits to Filmer as filmed from the ART pit
Texas Mile day one recap. ART.
Day one is wrapped up at the mile. The ART "ballista" Viper posted the fastest time of the day. With a new driver behind the wheel, the Viper made three passes today.
The first pass was an awesome shakedown run putting up 225 mph. The second pass didnt go so well as the gps sensor in the car quit working as soon as the car left the line. A quick fix, and we were back in line for a third pass.
With the gps sensor taped to the outside if the car, the 3rd pass put us at 228mph. The driver missed 4th gear , recovered and mashed back on the gas pedal. The Viper still
225.8 first pass at the Texas Mile.
The ART 1800 Ballista Viper ran a very smooth pass of the trailer this morning. Stay tuned for another pass on more boost.
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