Hennessey 2008 ACR in One Lap of America ..... looking good !!!!

[1TONY1]

Checking this morning and Hennesseys 2008 has won 3 out of four events. The three were road courses and the other was the skid pad and it looks like there must have been an issue on the skid pad by looking at the times.
Not only did they win, but looking at the lap times they are kicking ass !!!

Here are the top ten in the three events. They were ahead about 19 seconds in the first event and 15 in the third event. That is about the same difference as number 2 and the number 10 finishers. WOW

One Lap of America - the Official Webpage

Road America - Time Trial - Results sorted by position Page 1
Pos Car # Vehicle Class Time Points

1 2 Dodge Hennessey Viper SSGT1 BB 7:43.518 360
Chris Winkler, Rob Jones
2 1 Porsche 996 Twin Turbo SSGT1 BB 8:02.123 355
Mark DaVia, Drew Wikstrom
3 25 Chevrolet Z06 Corvette SSGT1 BB 8:07.373 350
Dan Corcoran, Kyle Corcoran
4 100 Nissan GT-R SSGT1 BB 8:11.213 345
Tony Swan, Mary Seelhorst
5 3 Mongoose GTP SSGT1 BB 8:11.271 340
Jeremy Herzberg, Danny Popp

6 22 Porsche GT3 SSGT1 BB 8:15.121 335
Peter Lier, Ian Stewart
7 16 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 SSGT1 BB 8:18.026 330
Mark Murnahan, Stephen Gerber
8 8 Ford GT SSGT1 BB 8:19.983 325
James Stowell, John Fuchs
9 27 WCM Ultralite S2K Alt Fuel 8:21.678 320
Kevin Boulton, M Harmoney
10 39 BMW E36 M3 SSGT1 SB 8:22.950 315
Catesby Jones,


Mid-America Motorplex ROUND #1 - Time Trial - Results sorted by position Page 1
Pos Car # Vehicle Class Time Points

1 2 Dodge Hennessey Viper SSGT1 BB 4:55.974 360
Chris Winkler, Rob Jones
2 3 Mongoose GTP SSGT1 BB 4:58.900 355
Jeremy Herzberg, Danny Popp
3 1 Porsche 996 Twin Turbo SSGT1 BB 5:00.045 350
Mark DaVia, Drew Wikstrom
4 22 Porsche GT3 SSGT1 BB 5:03.002 345
Peter Lier, Ian Stewart
5 25 Chevrolet Z06 Corvette SSGT1 BB 5:05.915 340
Dan Corcoran, Kyle Corcoran

6 16 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 SSGT1 BB 5:10.497 335
Mark Murnahan, Stephen Gerber
7 27 WCM Ultralite S2K Alt Fuel 5:10.865 330
Kevin Boulton, M Harmoney
8 5 Porsche Cayman GTR SSGT1 SB 5:14.026 325
Donald Barnes, Leh Keen
9 32 BMW M5 Luxury Sed 5:15.992 320
Mark Simons, Brian Hair
10 4 Mongoose GTP SSGT1 BB 5:16.277 315



Mid-America Motorplex ROUND #2 - Time Trial - Results sorted by position Page 1
Pos Car # Vehicle Class Time Points

1 2 Dodge Hennessey Viper SSGT1 BB 4:50.530 360
Chris Winkler, Rob Jones
2 22 Porsche GT3 SSGT1 BB 5:03.410 355
Peter Lier, Ian Stewart
3 25 Chevrolet Z06 Corvette SSGT1 BB 5:07.690 350
Dan Corcoran, Kyle Corcoran
4 16 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 SSGT1 BB 5:07.781 345
Mark Murnahan, Stephen Gerber
5 5 Porsche Cayman GTR SSGT1 SB 5:09.141 340
Donald Barnes, Leh Keen

6 27 WCM Ultralite S2K Alt Fuel 5:09.398 335
Kevin Boulton, M Harmoney
7 3 Mongoose GTP SSGT1 BB 5:09.960 330
Jeremy Herzberg, Danny Popp
8 100 Nissan GT-R SSGT1 BB 5:15.153 325
Tony Swan, Mary Seelhorst
9 1 Porsche 996 Twin Turbo SSGT1 BB 5:16.762 320
Mark DaVia, Drew Wikstrom
10 8 Ford GT SSGT1 BB 5:17.329 315
James Stowell, John Fuchs
Jon Krolewicz, Ray Krolewicz

[rcl4668]

Thanks for posting. Can't wait for the C&D article on One Lap.

/Rich

[GTSnake]

Still don't trust him...

[Bugeater]

Wish they would call it the Winkler/Jones 2008 ACR. Having H's name on the entry makes me almost not want to root for the Dodge.

[1TONY1]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Wish they would call it the Winkler/Jones 2008 ACR. Having H's name on the entry makes me almost not want to root for the Dodge.

Maybe so, but he is the one the ponied up the money and is taking the risks.
Can we leave this as a rooting for the Viper and not a bash on HMS please.

[FE 065]

Taking first at each road course by a huge time margin...but 2nd place is only 5 points less. (!)

[Boxer12]

Originally Posted by FE 065

Taking first at each road course by a huge time margin...but 2nd place is only 5 points less. (!)

C&D knew that the Pcar's would need a 'handicap' to be in the race with the true Big Bores, and everyone knows the Viper sucks in the wet (like all...ok worse than most... big HP front eng/rwd)...thus, the wet skidpad. With this lead that the Pcar has, it is all going to be about reliability. Unfortunately, the Pcar is very reliable, as demonstrated by his past 3 years in Victory Circle. I wish they had done a dry skidpad too, and averaged the results or something. That would be more fair. Let's hope the rest of the events are dry. Go ACR!

[Boxer12]

Originally Posted by 1TONY1

Maybe so, but he is the one the ponied up the money and is taking the risks.
Can we leave this as a rooting for the Viper and not a bash on HMS please.

You gotta hand it to the guy, he is always there to step up to the plate and put his money out. He spends more on advertising the Viper than Chrysler does, it seems!

[Bobpantax]

Originally Posted by Boxer12

You gotta hand it to the guy, he is always there to step up to the plate and put his money out. He spends more on advertising the Viper than Chrysler does, it seems!

Is it his money or the money of third party investors? Does anyone know?

[Stealth]

Very impressive road course performances!

I agree on the P-cars--need handicap to even compete until you reach the 997 GT2. Even though those cars have good build quality, it has always irked me that you never get a decent performance car from them until you spend huge dollars. Out The Door prices (options, tax, etc.): 997 GT3 (no power): $135k +; 997 GT2 Z(a real car): $230k!!

Makes our Snakes look like bargains!

[1TONY1]

Originally Posted by Bobpantax

Is it his money or the money of third party investors? Does anyone know?

I have never heard of HMS having investors but I have never asked. I think he always is on his own.
I know he is the one that buys cars/Jeeps from and bought this car from Ringgold Dodge. Think about it...turning over that car to two drivers no matter how good could end up a total loss...and they aren't there to lose. That takes some balls by somebody.

I was getting ramped up to run my GTS in the 02 One Lap, and then I totaled my wifes BoxterS at road Atlanta and that took the wind out of my sail I knew I couldn't afford to crash the Viper.

[GR8_ASP]

Give Hennessey the credit he deserves. He is the only Viper tuner that makes the effort to promote the Viper on a consistent Viper. If it were not for John many more people would not know the Viper exists.

As far as the business practice side of things it seems to have been quiet for several years. Many other Viper tuners have been in the news, for less than desireable reasons.

[ar15kittykat]

Originally Posted by GR8_ASP

Give Hennessey the credit he deserves. He is the only Viper tuner that makes the effort to promote the Viper on a consistent Viper. If it were not for John many more people would not know the Viper exists.

As far as the business practice side of things it seems to have been quiet for several years. Many other Viper tuners have been in the news, for less than desireable reasons.

Henn. is promoting the Viper is also self promoting, getting his name back to the fore front, trying to re-cover from previous years...

[DEKE01]

Originally Posted by Bobpantax

Is it his money or the money of third party investors? Does anyone know?

Does it really matter? What ever benefit we might gain from his efforts is the same regardless.

[Bobpantax]

Originally Posted by 1TONY1

I have never heard of HMS having investors but I have never asked. I think he always is on his own.

The reason I asked was that I had heard that not that long ago, Mr. H was trying to position himself to buy the Viper line if Chrysler LLC discontinues it so that he could continue it as a specialty car. As part of this rumor, I heard that there might be some sort of investor group consisting of former "happy" customers. I was wondering whether the same people, if they exist, were financing these marketing efforts. If he and the group really want to buy the Viper line, it makes sense to invest money now to keep the brand name out there and on top of the performance curve.