Vintage Footage: 1993 Project Pit Viper versus Ferrari 288 GTO and an F40 at Sebring
 

Vintage in-car footage when I was racing my '93 Viper during a track day on the long course. This was in August of 1995. The 288 GTO and the F40 were both owned by a friend's father-in-law who had a collection that he drove whenever he had the chance. The footage doesn't really express how fast we were actually going: about 140+ mph on the long sections. I could pull close to them coming out of the turns with the V10's torque but they would pull slightly ahead on the long straights. I finally was able to get by them both when I held out late in two successive corners and then took an earlier line to straighten out the exit point. Then a polite wave to the F40 for "letting me" pass.

The car is the original 1993 Mopar Muscle Magazine Project Pit Viper featured in two years of issues of the magazine. I was the tech editor at the time. https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=169779

BTW, Sorry for the horrible video. That was the 1990s and Sebring was renowned for it's rough concrete pavement.

I’m telling ya….this car (and you) needs to come to MCACN. It’s Viper History!

Cheers
Dave

Recent photo at a carsNcoffee last year. I let my son drive it there. This is the car he learned how to drive a stick, on.

:haha:

Way cool!!