"Chris@Carlypso" (chriscarlypso)
02/06/2016 at 17:35 • Filed to: None
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"Chris@Carlypso" (chriscarlypso)
02/06/2016 at 17:35 • Filed to: None | 7
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For all the posts on how “terrifying” it is to drive a Viper quickly... I don’t find it true at all. Here’s me @ Laguna Seca. Notice I am still facing the right direction, not on fire, and my leg is not burned.
On the topic of being scary- is the viper powerful, lack traction control, and have enormous amounts of torque? Yes but its by no means a difficult to drive quickly. First-Gen cars (1992-96 RT/10's ) have repeatedly given the car a bad name thats stuck in journalists mind.
Here’s a quick quiz - the following expressions are from an review comparing Gen III coupe to C6 Z06:
1)“ far easier to drive and handle on the track than we had expected”
2) “Surprisingly easy to drive around the track and very forgivable as the rear end rotates”
3) “it tends to understeer more than we like”
4) “Squeeze the gas a little too much at corner exit, and you’ll find yourself instantly in trouble”
5) “[if we encountered] any kind of bump or lump in the pavement as it was exiting a corner, the result was a nearly instantaneous outward snap of the tail”
6) “the faster we went, the sweatier our palms got”
For those keeping track - quotes 1-3 are for the Viper, quotes 4-6 for the Z06.
Opposite Locksmith
> Chris@Carlypso
02/06/2016 at 18:00 |
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Heck yeah! And sweet picks. I've driven a viper and came to the same conclusions. Thought I was a car God but I guess not
Tohru
> Chris@Carlypso
02/06/2016 at 18:52 |
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I would like to point out that you haven’t posted the pictures of the Viper backwards into the crash barrier with both it and your leg on fire,and I would like to ask why you haven’t posted them.
It’s about ethics in gaming... I mean automotive journalism.
Nauraushaun
> Chris@Carlypso
02/06/2016 at 19:02 |
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You didn’t post pics of the rear end rotating. Pics or didn’t happen.
It’s all I wanna see. There’s a guy out there drifting a Lamborghini, why no drift Viper?
Twism
> Nauraushaun
02/06/2016 at 19:58 |
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someone said drifting viper?
RedlineZ bought an SV (And is getting rid of the z)
> Nauraushaun
02/07/2016 at 03:05 |
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dean kearney drives a viper vert in formula drift and is actually pretty good
trmoore09
> Chris@Carlypso
02/07/2016 at 11:20 |
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All I have to say is this guy is jealous that you a) got to drive a viper, b) race a viper and c) at laguna seca.