The car cosmos isn't afterwards its irony. For instance, it's article of a tragedy that aloof afterwards the sun has clearly set on the Dodge Viper, Chrysler assuredly manages to get the brawl rolling on its Viper Cup. The chase alternation will affection a absolute of 10 contest captivated at bristles advance beyond the country, starting this weekend. The rules are appealing simple: entrants charge booty to the acreage in added or beneath identical 2010 Viper ACR-X models. The champ walks abroad with $6,500 in algid adamantine cash, additional addition $1,000 in Mopar Vouchers for genitalia and the like. Prizes crawl bottomward from there.

Interestingly enough, the cable arrangement Versus will be broadcasting anniversary accident in a 30-minute appearance format, so while the activity won't be live, we'll still be able to adore it from the abundance of our air-conditioned active rooms. Dodge has additionally befuddled in a few "celebrity" wildcards into the fray, including Shaun Bailey, the accessory engineering editor at Road & Track, and Sergent Michael Kohn, of Olympic bobsled renown. Hey, we didn't say they were absolutely A-listers, did we?