ALOHA, Ore. — After a two-year hiatus, Lux Performance Group and Cindy Lux will bring the No. 45 Black Rock Coffee Bar/Lux Performance Group Dodge Viper ACR-X back onto the main stage in the SGT class.
“We gave everyone two years to race without us breathing down their necks,” Lux said. “We have the oldest cars in our class and probably one of the few that still have a manual transmission. No paddle shifting for us. Old school, baby. However, that’s what I love about them. We just work hard to squeeze more speed out of them every year.”
A second V10 American classic, the No. 35 Dodge Viper ACR-X, will also be fielded by Lux Performance Group for Dirk Leuenberger.
They will compete at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (April 22 – 24), Sonoma Raceway (April 30 – May 1), the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (June 23 – 26), Road America (July 1 – 3), Watkins Glen International (September 7 – 11), Virginia International Raceway (October 6 – 9) and the season-closing round at the Circuit of the Americas (November 4 – 6).
Covid restrictions kept the Aloha, Oregon-based preparation shop from racing in 2020.
In 2021, the veteran Viper program raced four times in the Trans Am West Coast Championship Presented by Pirelli with the two team cars capturing four pole positions, four wins, two second-places, one third-place finish, seven podiums and two track records.
Since joining Trans Am in 2015, Lux Performance has won over 50 percent of the 30 races it has entered, racked-up 13 pole positions and six track records. Cindi Lux earned the TA3 Northern Cup SGT Championship in 2018.