Richard Petty and the 1964 Plymouth with the 426 HEMI engine that won the Daytona 500. Photo courtesy of NASCAR. Fifty years ago this weekend, two legends were born on the track in Daytona Beach, Fla. A 26-year-old stock car driver named Richard Petty dominated the field to win the sixth running of the Daytona
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Category Archives: Motorsports
Six of the fastest men you’ll ever meet
Sure, much of the country is snowed under. But engines are being fired up and suspensions adjusted at Daytona International Speedway as the SRT Motorsports team gets ready for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which is just three weeks away. Part of getting the team ready for the around-the-clock race, which opens the season for
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Vipers Looking For A Big Finish At Petit Le Mans
In the rolling hills northeast of Atlanta, the SRT Motorsports team has spent the week getting its racing SRT Viper GTS-R cars ready for the final race of the 2013 American Le Mans Series — the Petit Le Mans. The race starts Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Eastern and runs for 1,000 miles or 10 hours,
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Viper Strikes On The Track And The Road
The SRT Viper GTS is a sports car equally at home on the street and on the race track. To help make this point, our friends over at driveSRT.com have posted a short video clip on YouTube. No wonder that every buyer of an SRT product gets a day of track driving instruction as part
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Racing and high performance fuel car buyers, SRT chief tells Woodward crowd
Building high-performance cars, such as the SRT Viper, and racing them in theAmerican Le Mans Series gets consumers to consider Chrysler Group vehicles, says Ralph Gilles, President and CEO of the SRT Brand and Motorsports and Senior Vice President of Product Design.“Race fans get to the track early and they have the time to do some car
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Legendary Racer’s Choice: Chrysler 300 SRT and Tommy Kendall
Tommy Kendall knows how to hustle a car around a race track. That’s why he’s one of the drivers of the SRT Viper GTS-R in the American Le Mans Series. But sometimes Tommy needs room for a passenger or two, or three. But he still likes to go fast. No problem when he’s driving the
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SRT Viper Race Car Gets a “Rush” for Grand Prix of Baltimore Weekend
The speed and thrill of SRT Viper GTS-R race cars tearing around the streets of Baltimore this weekend in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), which is part of theGrand Prix of Baltimore presented by SRT, makes an ideal warm-up for the upcoming Ron Howard racing film “Rush.”The movie, which chronicles the battles between Formula One drivers Niki Lauda
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