For full article: www.edmunds.com “Brute strength and awkwardness” is a phrase that we heard a lot while growing up at Dad’s race shop. He used it to describe a powerful yet ill-handling machine; or, more often, the driving technique of a hero driver attempting to cope with one. Both definitions rattled around in our brain as we traveled to Virginia International Raceway (VIR) to drive the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10.