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You clearly learned nothing from your experience.
An "inherent problem with the cars?" Give me a break. If the wheel fell off, or the brakes failed, I could see your argument. That's not the case, however. You simply were not familiar with how the car handles and accelerates, and you overestimated your ability to control the car.
But wait. It can't be possible that you simply screwed up, because you attended a two day Porsche driving school. Your car must be the problem. You "know what you're doing" so it can't be your fault. It's that "devil car's" fault. The same thing would have happened no matter who was driving? That's probably true, provided that the driver made the same mistakes that you did. Oh yes, I forgot, you "gave it ONLY enough gas to blend into traffic." Perhaps you may have given it a little more gas than you intended.
It sounds like a pretty challenging piece of driving. A ramp, a curb, having to "accelerate to blend into the flow of traffic that is traveling at a minimum speed of 60 MPH." A bend in the road, so you can't see all the car's coming. It all sounds pretty scary. Maybe it's not the car's fault. Maybe it's the fault of the engineer that designed that on-ramp. Maybe it's the fault of the Derek Bell Porsche Precision Driving School because they didn't spend enough time working with you on merging into traffic. Maybe if you think about it long enough, you will find someone or something else to blame.
The Viper is an extremely high performance car, without the training wheels of stability control to keep you out of trouble. Do yourself, your passengers, and other drivers around you a favor and trade in your Viper and buy a Porsche or Corvette or Mercedes. Either that, or accept the fact that you don't know how to drive the Viper, and get the practice and training you need to learn how to drive it well.
Either way, stop complaining about the "inherent problems" with the car and take some responsibility for your own actions and decisions. Placing blame on the car for your mistake is just pathetic.
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Sheesh, you would think I was speaking ill of your mother.I only mentioned the school and the other cars so you wouldnt say that it was because I have no experience with the likes of the Viper. So tell me what I did wrong so I can learn from you since you are all-knowing. You can tell me that I misjudged in accelerating and that is why the car lost control. You can tell me that it had nothing to do with the nature of the Viper and I am just not the driver that you are, if you do that is fine but it is bullsh*t. Maybe you are right that it takes some adjusting to the way this car behaves. However, after I drove the car for very a short time i would not know that, and it is this inherent nature that made the car react the way it did. All I'm doing is pointing out this quality of the way the car drives, and the fact that a new Viper driver wouldn't be able to know about it until it was, perhaps, too late. If you would call this sort of thing, under these circumstances, "the fault of the driver," I would have to disagree. Look on the posts ahead of me and you can see that I am not the only one with this experience and other people do mention the tires and cold weather as having an adverse affect on this cars traction. All of this aside, your reaction to my experience and feelings about the car, and your willingness to attack me personally only educates me to one thing, and that is if you have the attitude of the average Viper driver then I truly feel ill. I have to hope that this is not the case, because I dont want to turn out that way just because I own a Viper.
