The Dodge Viper chase car began activity in the GT1 chic in 1996. The ascent costs abiding the architect to about-face to the GT2 chic for the 1997 season. The Viper's assembly volumes (approximately 2,000 annually) able it for the class and it boarded on a antagonism affairs that was to acquire it a acceptability as the best acknowledged American production-based antagonism car of all time.