Dodge Viper burning rubber video

Slow motion video shows a Dodge Viper burning rubber

Here's a video of a Dodge Viper doing a burnout in slow motion.

The video is well shot and really helps reveal the physics of the rear-wheel rubber-burn.

It's also a reminder of what rear-wheel drive cars can do that front-wheel drives can't.

The music you will recognize immediately. And it may make you laugh if you're a Blues Brothers fan.

The score is Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner, a favored composer of Hitler and the Nazis, though, through not fault of his own since the man died in 1883 before Hitler was even born.

The music was used to ironic effect in the Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now from 1979 and then pushed to a comedic/farcical level in the Blues Brothers film in 1980.

Not sure what the aim of the score is here. But if excess is your theme, it fits right in.

Source: You Tube via GTspirit

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Joe_Limon

Apparently the vipers ecu senses torque and varies engine parameters to give the driver the exact desired torque. I wonder how burn outs mess this system up :P

November 15, 2010 7:31 pm

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Xanavi23

I love the Viper, and what its capable of, but this is just a waste of good tires.

November 15, 2010 7:49 pm

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TransAmFan

Haha, I don't think he's worried about tire cost if he made this video. And Vipers are sweet, wish more lived around me.

November 16, 2010 1:15 pm

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v6s_stink

I have never quite understood the Viper. It is kind of a rip-off of the original Cobras in name and styling. It is sort of a nostalgia American muscle car, but it sports a V10. It is suppose to have some European charm going back to the days of the Chrysler/Lamborghini tie-up, but he has Dodge truck parts and styling elements. To me, its one of those cars that is almost nice, but has too much weird cross breeding and inbreeding to really pull it off.

November 15, 2010 9:52 pm

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FOXHOUND

well, i dont know if you know this but Carrol Shelby was the head designer on the team in 1988 that designed the first dodge viper concept, and also heavily involved in the viper gts coupe, which was a throwback to the daytona cobra coupe. so i dont think this car is a rip off becuase the man who was responsible for the original cobra roadster and coupe was also responsible for this, and as for the european charm, that was never the intent for this car. the viper was meant to be a no frills white knuckle muscle car even though it did sport a v10. and even though the v10 was derived from a truck engine, the bottom line is that it works and i dont think dodge will change that.

November 16, 2010 2:06 am

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v6s_stink

I get that Carrol Shelby was involved in the car. He also put some great racing stripes on Omnis during his stint with Dodge. Chryco may have billed him as head designer, but that would be a pretty optimistic description of old Shels talents. The AC Cobras and Shelby Mustangs were not really penned by Carrol. The ex-racer probably doesn't have real head designer credentials. Anyway if you want a lot of unrefined muscle wrapped in an odd Dodge copy of a famous Ford product, and you are a total MOPAR fanatic, then this car kind of makes sense.

November 16, 2010 8:53 pm

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