On october 11 at Paragon speedway Dri-Bar held a test with Hunter Schuerenberg,Damion Gardner,and Jerry Coons Jr. All ran with out the bar to dial their car in to the track.Then ran with the Dri-Bar Hooked up.As the track changed cars were run with and with out the bar.Stop watch does not lie!They ran faster with the Dri-Bar. But the main idea of the bar is to keep cars handling in a feature from the green flag with a full fuel load to the checkered and just a few gallons of fuel.
I was at the test shooting video and stills. I think it adds to the driver's selection of tools from adjusting the shocks, try a different line and throttle control. It is easy to adjust, just push the button and move the cockpit lever to change the weight transfer and roll.
Does it make a winning difference?
You have to ask D.G. about that and if it helped him at Perris. Is it needed? Is any cockpit adjusters needed?
From what I saw at Paragon it does help the car and did pick up the teams some time. 3 tenths covers a lot of cars at a USAC race. Would it of helped Jud Larson? Don Branson or Sam Sessons?
Doubt it, they were true race drivers running cars by the seat of their pants. Todays drivers like adjustments.
Lets just go ahead and put on traction control, on board computers and hell, add wings too. Heaven forbid that the drivers "actually have to drive the car".!
HA! The one sure thing I've noticed, in 40 years of doing this stuff, is that, at least, half of the "drivers" who buy all of these, manually operated, adjustable anti-rollbar gizmos end up jacking themselves out of business..... Now, if this guy's gadget was capable of sensing track condition and was able to adjust itself in the correct direction, he might have something new.
