That's it Dave. It's an incredible suspension system that operates from body roll and non-parallel suspension linkages. The four-link re-invented and re-popularized dirt racing. On dirt the articulation of the rear axle is extreme, the left side wheel base shortens several inches in each turn......I'd expect the pavementazation of the idea would be much more tame and subtle. But Brad K could see Jimmy J's axle articulating at Indy.
Could Scott Bloomquist, Barry Wright, Mark Richards, etc. etc. and all the dirt guys be the next NASCAR gurus? After all, they essentially invented this technology, adapting parts of the four-link concept from the drag race crowd.
Not to worry PKL, just TODAY NASCAR has proclaimed all such gadgetry absolutely legal.
Although it's stillultra-secret, it appears the 1968-vintage NASCAR-truck-arm rear suspension has bit the bullet......Yup, the high-tech, engineer-laden NASCAR Sprint Cup world has discovered a trick.....and one that's been used at every dirt track in America for the past couple decades.Boy, are they on the cutting edge or what? Themovingparts of the rear end, so verbalized by Brad Keslowski and others sounds lke the dirt 4-link system adapted to pavement. Body-roll induces significant rear-steer, increases forward bite, AND loads the right front...decreasing the dumb "aero-push" phenom. What will all those lap-top wielding whiz kids think up next?
Yep, I think it was Dave, couple of guys from Sumter and Crawfish from Charleston. It' the main reason Pops got back in when he did.
A Sumter, South Carolina-based would-be-rival of NASCAR group was all set to go, during this same time frame......hoping to captilzie on the 1965, Chrysler boycott, and the Curtis Turner ban-for-life, this group was to FEATURE Turner as a headliner. Big Bill, at the last moment, allowed Curtis back in, and the rival group never got off the ground.
That sound's, pretty much, like Darlington once was........ Except, every bodydidsound like Ward Burton, all those Labor Day's ago Thank you very much!
