Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR Sets Laguna Seca Record

The United States really doesn't have a supercar equivalent to the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. The Corvette and Corvette ZR1 are perhaps the best examples, as well as the Dodge Viper.

The latter is a heavy part of a project that does aim to provide an American supercar - the Devon Motor Works GTX. It uses a modified version of the Viper's V-10. The GTX recently toppled the record for the highest speed time around Laguna Seca, incidentally set by a Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR.

Now, it appear that record has been beat yet again - by (you guessed it) - the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR.  SRT Driver Chris Winkler took the Viper around the track for six hot laps before lapping it in a scant 1 minute and 33.915 seconds on his seventh time around.

SRT came with the aim of taking back the fastest time, and they achieved it. With that result, he set the unofficial record around the track.

The result isn't too unexpected - the Devon Motor Works GTX and Viper are closely related, and the GTX's lap time was extremely close to the previous record. We'll see if Devon give it another go around in hopes of setting the record again - could be an interesting competition going on here!