Lux, a winner of 12 road racing championships and 75 victories including her class here last year at the 1.967-mile, 12-turn facility, will bring a race car similar in ways to her father's classic Ferrari Testa Rosa. Like the Ferrari, the Viper ACR-X is a front engine, rear-drive, race-bred sports car that has road-going ties. However, the Michigan-built V10 is light years ahead in outright performance to its Italian-born brethren. Earlier in week, Lux helped make the press debut of the ACR-X at a media event near Detroit. The very car which the media flogged around the Gingerman Raceway there has been shipped here to Portland where Lux Performance Group, LLC - the team owned by Lux and her crew chief/race engineer husband, Fred - has entered it in the Oregon race weekend.

Dick Hahn's 1961, Rose Cup-winning Ferrari Testa Rossa

The 2010 ACR-X is the newest in the line of Dodge Viper super cars which stretches back to 1991. The ACR-X is the track-only iteration of the Viper ACR, itself an ultra-performance edition of the Dodge Viper. While the ACR is street legal, the new ACR-X is built purely for the track and will be the focal point of a new, single-make, 10-race series which is scheduled to launch at Virginia International Raceway July 7-11.

The Rose Cup weekend puts over 400 drivers in contention across multiple classes of racing. Lux will compete for the overall Rose Cup title just as her father did in the 1960s. Unlike her father, Lux will not enjoy wheeling one of the fastest cars in the event. While the Dodge Viper ACR-X is an amazing race machine, by design it does not have the horsepower of the purpose-built, thoroughbred entries in the "Run for the Roses." Being street car-based, the normally aspirated V10 will give-up as much as 300Hp to the