Hello? Fellow Viper owners in Detroit? ... details??? Pictures? ...
Sorry, we're too busy having fun to post updates...
We had a fun day yesterday running autocross at Chelsea then drag racing at Milan. It rained in the morning so the group that started at Milan couldn't do any drag racing but ended up doing donuts or something I heard.
At Chelsea there were 2 autoX courses set up and you had to run one after another instead of running on one continuously then switch. It was kinda confusing because you had to try to memorize 2 courses at the same time. I still can't figure out why they did that... In the early going people were a little tentative just trying to learn the course but after a few runs the tire squeeling and smoking finally started to really look like they were having fun. And lap times dropped accordingly.
After that it was on to the road course where an instructor lead a pack of cars through 3-4 at a time followed by another instructor in a chase car. It was a great learning experience for some to actually see how you're supposed to drive a road course. Although some people were still very tentative and didn't/couldn't follow the line that instructors were showing and held up more experienced drivers.
After lunch came the SRT driving experience where people were pitted head to head against one another on a very small autoX course. Two SRT Calibers started opposite each other and the first one to complete the course won. Winners moved on until only one was crowned. I heard of one story where someone tried to drive in 3rd gear and basically burned up the clutch. The instructors had to put that car aside until the smoke cleared
. Good thing they had an extra car on hand.
In the afternoon came Milan. As we caravaned to Milan there were a group of Vipers that started following a Mi local member. Little did they know he was actually headed home and not to Milan. 15 cars split off from the correct route and started driving north instead of south on M-23. I think they finally caught on and realized they were going to wrong way
In addition, I need to thank one of the MI members for taking one for the team. It seemed that the local State Troopers got wind that there were a gang of Vipers cruising the highways around Ann Arbor and came out in force. Within 5 minutes of leaving Chelsea the MI member was pulled over while the rest of us went passing by undisturbed.
Milan was a great time. There were some decent times ran although track prep was all but none existent. With the morning rain it seemed like they didn't do any prep. Basically every car there were running street tires except for one car. That was me...
By 3:30 most everyone left the track and headed back to the hotel. However they missed out at watching a special guest star that showed up around 4pm. Mr. Chrysler VP of Design showed up with his black ACR. He made a few passes and ran a best time of 12.05.
Dinner was on the Detroit Princess. We went on a 3 hr dinner cruise without the professor and MaryAnn. It was good food and a warm night. After dinner most everyone spent some time hanging out on deck in the warm breezes.
That's about it for now. Today was track day for the other group and plant tours for the first group.
Just wish I could be there too 
