Dodge launches Viper Cup Series following a finish of prolongation
Even yet Dodge not long ago finished prolongation of a Viper, a indication is still getting the racing series of its own.
The 2010 Dodge Viper Cup began the deteriorate during a Virginia International Raceway this past weekend (July 10 and 11) as well as will underline 10 races in all receiving place over a summer as well as tumble. Participating in a array will be 12 Dodge Viper ACR-X race cars as well as competition coverage will be provided by sports channel CONTRA, which will broadcast 30-minute edited versions of any race.
The Viper ACR-X is non-street authorised competition automobile fitted with an 8.4 liter V10 engine with 640 hp ( 477 kW) as well as 605 lb-ft (820 Nm) of torque, somewhat some-more than a prolongation Viper. Dodge had built the sum of 50 units of a race-only Viper. It comes with the roll-cage as well as the specially-tuned competition cessation, amongst alternative racing member additions.
The racing array is being sponsored by Michelin tires and facilities the tip esteem of $25,000. Drivers participating in a little of a races embody Shaun Bailey of Road as well as Track repository as well as an Olympic bobsledder, Mike Kohn, who is currently a sergeant in the Army National Guard.
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Dodge Viper Cup Series Kicks Off Inaugural Season upon CONTRA
Virginia International Raceway Hosts First Two Viper Cup Races
Ten-race spec array facilities brand new Dodge Viper ACR-X – “a” idealization special-edition indication of America’s idealization sports carVERSUS to televise all 10 events in 30-minute uncover formatMICHELIN signs upon as central tire sponsorFirst dual races of Viper Cup array celebrity motorist module will feature Shaun Bailey of Road as well as Track repository as well as Army National Guard Sergeant Mike Kohn of U.S. Olympic bobsledding fameGrowing seductiveness in a new array leads Dodge to produce 25 one more 2010 Viper ACR-X models
July 9, 2010 , Auburn Hills, Mich.
The subsequent chapter in a racing bequest of a Dodge Viper is about to be written when 12 Dodge Viper ACR-X competition cars take to the lane to proceed a 2010 Dodge Viper Cup array season during Virginia International Raceway (VIR) in Alton, Va., July 10-11, 2010.
“The Dodge Viper ACR-X is written and built specifically for the competition lane,” pronounced Ralph Gilles, President as well as CEO, Dodge Brand. “Now with VERSUS upon house, competition fans will have the opportunity to see the gross as well as unmatched road-racing appurtenance along with some of the gifted Viper owner/drivers contest upon 5 of a most appropriate highway courses in a county as partial of a Dodge Viper Cup array.”
Event Coverage upon VERSUS
CONTRA, a fastest flourishing sports cable network in a U.S. will televise any of a 10 array races in 30-minute shows about dual to three weeks after any competition. Viewers should check local listings for the 2010 Dodge Viper Cup series Inform on VERSUS. If fans skip the sure competition, any 30-minute uncover additionally will re-air upon CONTRA during assorted times via a deteriorate.
“We look brazen to delivering coverage of the brand new Dodge Viper Cup series to the inhabitant assembly,” pronounced Michael Perman, Senior Director of Program Planning as well as Acquisitions for CONTRA. “This is the good addition to the motorsports offerings, that includes a IZOD IndyCar Series as good as NASCAR events, as well as we are vehement for a event to provide viewers with even some-more racing action.”
The 2010 Dodge Viper Cup series upon CONTRA (subject to shift consists of dual races per weekend for 5 weekends, together with:
Race Date Venue Air Date / Time (Eastern)
July 10 VIR Sat., July 24, 2 p.m.
July 11 VIR Sat., July 31, 2:30 p.m.
Aug. 14 Hallett Raceway, Jennings, Okla. Sun., Sept. 5, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 15 Hallett Raceway, Jennings, Okla. Sun., Sept. 12, 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 11 Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pa. Sun., Oct. 10, 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 12 Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pa. Sun., Oct. 17, 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 2 Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, Utah Sun., Oct. 24, 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 3 Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, Utah Sun., Oct. 31, 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 23 Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, Pahrump, Nev. Sun., Nov. 7, 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 24 Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, Pahrump, Nev. Sun., Nov. 14, 3:30 p.m.
Celebrity Driver Program
As part of the 2010 Dodge Viper Cup array season, assorted luminary drivers will be invited to drive in a on-track execution, as well as if they win, their purse will be donated to a gift of their preference. Each luminary motorist is privately selected by Dodge Motorsports as well as specifically learned for all on-track foe in a series by veteran racehorse Cindi Lux of Lux Performance Group. Lux competed successfully in the Dodge Viper Competition Coupe as well as brings endless experience in government of Dodge Viper SRT10 Clubs along with assorted luminary motorist programs.
Shaun Bailey – competing in a No. 52 Viper ACR-X during VIR – assimilated Road & Track repository in 2000 as well as became Associate Engineering Editor in July 2010.
Bailey, from Newport Beach, Calif., is a graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, with the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. As the Manufacturing Engineer intern during Parker as well as Hannifin, he gained experience with robotics as well as suit carryout products. At CSU Pomona he assimilated a Formula SAE group, as well as a team’s success lead to his position during Road & Track. Bailey has competed in numerous Sports Car Club of America as well as National Auto Sport Association races, in further to his interests in motorcycle as well as kart racing.
Army National Guard Sergeant Michael Kohn – competing in a No. 53 Viper ACR-X at VIR – became the rival contestant at an early age. In tall school, he excelled during football and in lane and margin. He was initial introduced to a bobsled in 1990 as well as, during age 18, he was a youngest aspirant in a 1991 Olympic Trials.
After graduating from George Mason University, Kohn entered World Cup racing in 1998 and accomplished fifth in a 1999 World Championships. In 2002, he won a Bronze award at a Salt Lake City Olympics in the four-man event-the initial U.S. Olympic medal in men’s bobsled given 1956.
Following a 2002 Olympics, Kohn switched from push contestant to motorist. Since that time, he has won mixed National Championships as well as the World Cup Silver award as well as has had most Top-10 finishes.
Kohn grew up in northern Virginia and now resides in Potomac Falls, Va. He perceived the bachelor’s grade in Exercise Physiology from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He assimilated a Army National Guard in 1999 as an Infantry Soldier, completing his Basic as well as Infantry AIT precision during Fort Benning, Ga.
Also competing in a entrance races of a Dodge Viper Cup array during VIR have been:
Driver Car No. Hometown
Connie Bogan 10 Reno, Nev.
Larry Carter 44 Evans, Ga.
Jeffery Courtney 99 Jackson, Wis.
Eric Galerne 37 Houston, Texas
Ted Hughes 5 Seward, Neb.
Ben Keating 33 Port Lavaca, Texas
Ryan Schimisk 67 Austin, Texas
Jim Stout 1 Alliance, Ohio
Keith Verges 90 Dallas, Texas
Michael Von Quilich 247 Pahrump, Nev.
Series Contingency Program
Every car which competes in the Dodge Viper Cup series contingency be the brand new 2010 Dodge Viper ACR-X. A strait module sponsored by Dodge Motorsports as well as Mopar – Chrysler Group LLC’s source for all strange apparatus as well as opening tools for Dodge, Ram, Chrysler and Jeep vehicles – will compensate out some-more than $200,000 in money as well as parts. Top 5 finishers of any competition will embrace both the cash payout as well as the Parts Voucher, as credit toward squeeze of Mopar tools and accessories.
Finisher Cash Awarded Mopar Voucher Total
1st $6,500 $1,000 $7,500
2nd $4,500 $500 $5,000
3rd $2,500 $250 $2,750
4th $1,250 $150 $1,400
5th $500 $100 $600
Competitors finishing in sixth – tenth positions will embrace the $500 bonus upon a entrance price for their subsequent competition, pleasantness of a North American Road Racing Association – the sanctioning physique for a Dodge Viper Cup array.
Additional money awards will be done to a top-three finishers in a last Dodge Viper Cup array standings. The 2010 holdup will win $25,000, second-place will embrace $10,000 as well as third-place will compensate $5,000.
MICHELIN North America Inc.
Tires have been an important member of racing as well as a single of a many complicated components during the competition. The 2010 Dodge Viper ACR-X was grown regulating a MICHELIN Racing Slick for a traction indispensable to hold the ACR-X by a turns as well as utilize a torque of a V-10 engine.
MICHELIN will provide strait awards along with trackside as well as technical support during any competition.
“The” Ultimate Special-Edition Viper
Combining a most appropriate opening attributes of a record-setting, street-legal Dodge Viper American Club Racer (ACR) as well as a reserve equipment of championship-winning Dodge Viper Competition Coupe, a Viper ACR-X is powered by a SRT-developed 8.4-liter V-10 engine, equipped with bureau headers as well as the low-restriction empty complement which produces 640 horsepower (40 more than the prolongation indication and 605 lb.-ft. of torque (45 more than a production model).
The cessation also is tuned and upgraded privately for on-track usage with singular springs, two-way tractable shocks as well as adjustable lean club links.
Curb weight is the full 160 pounds lighter (compared with the standard-production Viper) to take on even a most severe highway march. Additional aerodynamic upgrades, together with quad-dive planes as well as underbody ducts, urge downforce, while enhancing fortitude as well as significantly mending hold in high-speed cornering.
Following a initial production run of 25 units of a turn-key, non-street authorised race automobile that were quickly purchased by racing enthusiasts as well as collectors, Dodge has built an one more 25 units, bringing a sum of 2010 Viper ACR-X models to 50.
Similar to a Dodge Viper Competition Coupe, a Viper ACR-X contains factory-installed reserve apparatus such as the factory-designed hurl enclosure, glow termination complement, fuel cell as well as competition seat. Additional racing components, together with a delivery cooler, rear differential cooling complement, singular front rotors with incomparable aspect area as well as improved stop cooling around scoops in a front fascia, have been combined to encounter a significant continuance as well as trustworthiness requirements for on-track foe.
The Viper ACR-X is written to compete in the Viper Racing League, Sports Car Club of America as well as National Auto Sport Association events.
“We’re stability to work tough to have this last year of prolongation for the current-generation Dodge Viper in 2010 the most sparkling year for Viper as well as Viper Nation alike,” combined Gilles. “The prolongation of a Viper ACR-X as well as a launch of a Dodge Viper Cup array will goon the movement for years to come.”
Viper Racing Heritage
The Dodge Viper has enjoyed the successful racing birthright which began in 1996 with a strange Viper racing entrance, a GTS-R, that warranted 5 general GT championships as well as a 1997-1999 FIA GT championships. It also posted an extraordinary altogether win during a Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in 2000 – a initial for the production-based American automobile.
Viper accomplished 1-2 during The 24 Hours of LeMans in GTS category in 3 uninterrupted years: 1998 – 2000 as well as additionally prisoner GTS category, manufacturer’s as well as driver’s championships in a American LeMans Series in 1999 as well as 2000.
The Dodge Viper Competition Coupe, introduced in 2003, delivered a subsequent chapter of which story with the coupe-shaped carbon/Kevlar physique and the track-ready framework, formed upon the Dodge Viper SRT10. The Viper Competition Coupe has one after another the on-track prowess by capturing a 2004 SCCA Speed World Challenge GT pretension, championships in Formula D Drifting array in 2004 as well as 2006 as well as a British GT Championship in 2007 as well as 2008.
www.viperheadquarters.com
Dodge has combined the brand new web site written to showcase the Dodge Viper both on the travel as well as upon a track. Check out a online home for all things Viper during www.viperheadquarters.com
Viper Racing League
The Viper Racing League is one competition array inside of a organisation of three (including Challenge Series as well as Driving School) sanctioned by Viper Days. The array has 5 superfluous eventuality weekends scheduled for a 2010 deteriorate during a little of a country’s many prestigious competition marks. For some-more Inform including a 2010 competition schedule, revisit www.viperdays.com.
About CONTRA
CONTRA, a fastest flourishing sports cable network in a nation, prides itself upon super-serving ardent sports fans opposite all platforms (VERSUS.com, CONTRA on Demand and CONTRA HD).
Now in some-more than 75 million homes, a network is the cable television home of a National Hockey League (NHL), IZOD IndyCar Series, Tour de France, World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) and Professional Bull Riders (PBR). CONTRA additionally airs NASCAR, NBA, UFC, college football as well as college basketball programming. The network is home to a best outside programming on radio as well as front strange programs not accessible anywhere else, together with The Daily Line, Sports Soup and Sports Jobs with Junior Seau. CONTRA, a unconditionally owned association of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), is distributed around wire systems as well as heavenly body operators via the United States.
About Dodge
Dodge is the full line of cars, SUVs as well as MPVs which are flexible, daring, essential as well as resourceful. The product line includes the Dodge Caliber, Dodge Avenger, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger, Dodge Grand Caravan, Dodge Journey, Dodge Nitro and Dodge Viper SRT10.
Dodge introduced dual brand new vehicles for a 2009 indication year: the all-new 2009 Dodge Journey, the brand’s initial crossover vehicle as well as a 2009 Dodge Challenger, the modern-day American muscle automobile. Dodge additionally distinguished a 25th anniversary of a minivan during a 2009 indication year. With some-more than 65 minivan-firsts introduced since 1983 as well as some-more than 12 million Dodge as well as Chrysler minivans sole, Chrysler Group LLC has no longer soft the care in the shred. J.D. Power as well as Associates further acknowledged this leadership by fixing the Dodge Grand Caravan a Most Dependable Van for 2009. The 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan continues to set a mark in a minivan shred with unrivalled fuel saving of 17 city / 25 mainroad mpg as well as minivan-first innovations together with a segment’s usually Stow ‘n Go® as well as Swivel ‘n Go® seating as well as storage systems. The 2010 Dodge Journey as well as 2010 Dodge Avenger (with ESC) additionally earned a 2009 Top Safety Pick rating from a IIHS.
Also in 2008, a Dodge Journey entered pass volume markets outward North America, fasten a Dodge Avenger, Nitro and Caliber. Dodge Caliber was the top sales volume car for the association outward North America in 2008.
