This just adds more confusion to this stupid situation. Why did the police even need his blood sample if he wasn’t a suspect?

The fact that Payne was trying to force a blood sample from the victim of a crime makes this whole thing even worse.

Once Payne and his superior who pushed him are fired and unable to find another job, then I’ll believe in that “goodness of society”.

Wow. That 8.4 L motor is a beastly joy to listen to. There really is no replacement for displacement when it comes to engine sound.

I think 2 catastrophic tire failures at triple digit speeds are perfectly valid ‘excuses’. Would it have beat the 918? Dunno. Would it have dipped under 7 minutes? Absolutely. Us fan boys have plenty to be proud of from such an ‘archaic’ car running on a crowd funded budget.

Damn, That’s a lot of confidence you got there

The entire nation of Germany (led by Porsche fans) would lovingly dust off the track with toothbrushes on their hands and knees before they’d let a Viper own a meaningful record.

A not so great tire company.

Viper ACR>Perfomante> SV at any track any of the week. Closed course, professional driver.

COTD... I don’t really believe its Sergio, but funny as hell to the guy that’s impersonating him!

Yep, it was purpose built as a short circuit car, and in that arena, it’s obscenely fast.

The worst part is that they were this close with so little time to prep and actually run. The driver that did the 7:01 was only brought in the day before he did that 7:01 lap, had a 30 minute window for an empty track and only had that single hot lap before the tire blew and wrecking the car.

This. The ACR Viper’s top speed is some ridiculously low number, because of all the aero. If it had a simple active wing that went up and down (height wise) I believer it would probably have beat both Lamborghinis. If you watch the lap video they lost a lot of time on the long straight once they topped out.

How this is not included in this article is mystifying. I only clicked the link to get some context...

The problem is that they are being sponsored by the tire company.

The car was limited by tires. Both wrecks happened in turns at over 150 mph after tires catastrophically failed.

If the car it’s trying to beat has active aero(extremely clever active aero at that), it’s amazing that it came so close.

The group set out for a sub-seven-second time believing they could get the ACR to around six minutes and 50 seconds,

Normally I’d agree, but during a disaster there isn’t time for the market to normalize on necessities.