Promoted: The lost American Le Mans 24 Hours racer

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The SRT Viper GTS-R faced an uphill battle at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2013. Having only made its race debut in the American Le Mans Series at Mid-Ohio the previous August, it was still relatively early in its gestation by the time it rolled into France, and victory in the GTE-Pro class was never on the cards for the Riley Technologies-run SRT Motorsport squad tasked with its development. Its fastest race lap, set by Scotsman Ryan Dalziel, was over two seconds off the pace as Porsche and Aston Martin fought a private duel amongst themselves, but both cars made it to the finish, despite the torrential conditions, and there was plenty of optimism for its return the following year.

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