me and my 2001 Viper ACR took 1st place at the "HIGH roller" 1 mile top speed shootout at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas last month. of the 23 cars there i achieved the fastest speed at this race. i won the 180 mph class with a perfect speed of 180.000 mph and i won the 175 mph class with a speed of 175.5 mph. i was the only one at this race with a perfect speed regardless of class. my first two runs were disqualified because i went to fast :lol but i did see the scoreboard at the finish line post my speed of 182.9 mph as i flew by it on my first run, so......
on my first run i only used the 150 shot of nitrous in 4th, 5th and 6th gear only. if i would have used it in 2nd and 3rd gear as well i think i would have covered the mile at a speed of 185.9 mph. my GPS said that the runway resides at 1,850 feet above sea level. i did not have my weather station with me to get a corrected density altitude but the air temps hit 100+ degrees by noon and the event was shut down a couple of hours early due to the heat. i bet that the density altitude was about 3,700 feet above sea level with that kind of heat. there were no winds of anykind and the 11,000 foot long runway that we raced on was dead level.
anyway, i beat 11 corvettes as well as many other types of cars. two of those vettes were C6 Z06's. my buddy Scott won the 170 mph class in his bone stock C6 Z06 with the fastest speed of 166.5 mph. the modified C6 Z06 that ran in my class got 2nd place with a fastest speed of 176.4 mph. his mods consisted of intake, headers, cam and tune etc. the only other viper at this event was a 2006 with twin turbos. he was in the 190 mph class but broke on his first run when he left the starting line. unfortunately there were no Ford GT's there :confused
hopefully next year they will do this event again and there will be a bigger turnout of racers with some more competition for me. this event was put together at the very last minute and thus the reason for the low turnout. the surface of the runway was way better than the Texas mile. and the return road and the pits were completely clean of all rocks, stones and pebbles unlike the Texas mile which sand blasted and pitted my very expensive and hard to replace Forgeline VR1 wheels :mad
here is a link to the results > http://www.openroadracing.com/html/2008hrms.html
on my first run i only used the 150 shot of nitrous in 4th, 5th and 6th gear only. if i would have used it in 2nd and 3rd gear as well i think i would have covered the mile at a speed of 185.9 mph. my GPS said that the runway resides at 1,850 feet above sea level. i did not have my weather station with me to get a corrected density altitude but the air temps hit 100+ degrees by noon and the event was shut down a couple of hours early due to the heat. i bet that the density altitude was about 3,700 feet above sea level with that kind of heat. there were no winds of anykind and the 11,000 foot long runway that we raced on was dead level.
anyway, i beat 11 corvettes as well as many other types of cars. two of those vettes were C6 Z06's. my buddy Scott won the 170 mph class in his bone stock C6 Z06 with the fastest speed of 166.5 mph. the modified C6 Z06 that ran in my class got 2nd place with a fastest speed of 176.4 mph. his mods consisted of intake, headers, cam and tune etc. the only other viper at this event was a 2006 with twin turbos. he was in the 190 mph class but broke on his first run when he left the starting line. unfortunately there were no Ford GT's there :confused
hopefully next year they will do this event again and there will be a bigger turnout of racers with some more competition for me. this event was put together at the very last minute and thus the reason for the low turnout. the surface of the runway was way better than the Texas mile. and the return road and the pits were completely clean of all rocks, stones and pebbles unlike the Texas mile which sand blasted and pitted my very expensive and hard to replace Forgeline VR1 wheels :mad
here is a link to the results > http://www.openroadracing.com/html/2008hrms.html
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