I attended the SRT TE yesterday at Summit Point, WV. Awesome event, excellent weather and a great time was had by all. This TE had only 20 attendees (out of a possible 75). With a small class, that meant more seat time. :rock: I attended the VIR TE back in October 2006 when Skip Barber put on the show. The Petty gang did a great job equal to Skip's. :congrats:
We drove all the new SRT hardware, except for the Challenger. According to our instructors, the Challenger will be part of the TE beginning in September. We had opportunities to drive the Caliber SRT-4 (autocross and road course), Jeep GC SRT-8 (autocross), 300/Charger and Magnum SRT-8's (road course) and the Viper (vehicle control). Surpirisingly, the little Caliber is one fast and quick car. Becareful when you encopunter one these pocket rockets, you may be in for a surprise.
The new Viper is one kick a$$ ride. That thing takes off and brakes insanely fast. When it was my turn for the Viper (vehicle control module), my ride along instructor said "when ready go". Well I did. Tacked it up to about 3 grand and dumped the old clutcheroo, rear end squatted and squirted to the right. I had a huge grin on my face while the instructor was screaming noooooo. He didn't care too much about the tires -- he was concerned with the clutch and the abuse. I backed off and when we came to a stop, and apologized. For my second round of hot laps with the pro-drivers, I got the pleasure to ride in a snakeskin green Viper coupe. That ride was crazy fast on a very tight and technical road course, which included a 24 degree banking section I nicknamed the "pukeodrome". This track section transitioned from a flat road course to a high banked NASCAR track (albeit one lane of banking). The G-force at speed and during transitions was awesome.
If you get the opportunity to attend one of the TE events, you won't be disappointed.
We drove all the new SRT hardware, except for the Challenger. According to our instructors, the Challenger will be part of the TE beginning in September. We had opportunities to drive the Caliber SRT-4 (autocross and road course), Jeep GC SRT-8 (autocross), 300/Charger and Magnum SRT-8's (road course) and the Viper (vehicle control). Surpirisingly, the little Caliber is one fast and quick car. Becareful when you encopunter one these pocket rockets, you may be in for a surprise.
The new Viper is one kick a$$ ride. That thing takes off and brakes insanely fast. When it was my turn for the Viper (vehicle control module), my ride along instructor said "when ready go". Well I did. Tacked it up to about 3 grand and dumped the old clutcheroo, rear end squatted and squirted to the right. I had a huge grin on my face while the instructor was screaming noooooo. He didn't care too much about the tires -- he was concerned with the clutch and the abuse. I backed off and when we came to a stop, and apologized. For my second round of hot laps with the pro-drivers, I got the pleasure to ride in a snakeskin green Viper coupe. That ride was crazy fast on a very tight and technical road course, which included a 24 degree banking section I nicknamed the "pukeodrome". This track section transitioned from a flat road course to a high banked NASCAR track (albeit one lane of banking). The G-force at speed and during transitions was awesome.
If you get the opportunity to attend one of the TE events, you won't be disappointed.