Roush buys Shaker Rig

Jack Roush said he’s just ordered the latest piece of high-dollar racing technology, a seven-post shaker rig, a computerized machine that a race car can be mounted on, which uses large hydraulic pistons to mimic the bumps and lumps of a 500-mile race. Richard Childress has had one for several years; Rick Hendrick just installed one himself, and Jeff Gordon said that exotic piece of equipment has been key to the team’s dominance.

“We’ve got a seven-post rig test machine now in our facility," Gordon said. “Last year was about getting it put in and then trying to figure out how to utilize the information that we get from it. Now it’s really starting to pay off for us.

“And if you look at Childress’ success, I would say that is one of the main reasons they’ve stepped up so much over the last year, because they were one of the first teams to have one." Winston-Salem Journal