Inside the serpent: Viper ACR developers talk the tech

Before allowing a few hot laps on a cold December day at Willow Springs raceway, three key members of Dodge's SRT development team talked about the new Dodge Viper SRT10 American Club Racer. Their unscripted remarks have been slightly edited and condensed.

Herb Helbig, senior manager of SRT Vehicle Dynamics. He's also known as "the Grail Keeper of the Viper":

What you've got to understand is that Mike (Shinedling) and Matt (Bejnarowicz) and a couple other guys who aren't here, such as (Vehicle Dynamics Supervisor) Erich Heuschele, formed the nucleus of a skunkworks team within a skunkworks. It was these guys, along with Erich, who came up with the idea (of the ACR).

We've had so many people ask us, as soon as the '08 car came out, "When are you going to do an ACR version of it?" Because they had become accustomed to us doing that kind of thing.

Frankly we didn't really have an idea, very much, about doing an ACR as the '08 car was coming along. These guys came to me and said, "We need to do it."

I said, "OK, let's get the wish...

Last Update on : January 31, 2008   

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