Case Study: Hendrick Motorsports boosts racecar precision and performance with Hexagon metrology solutions

Hendrick Motorsports - Customer Case Study

Hendrick Motorsports, a highly successful NASCAR team, faced the challenge of ensuring its racecars met NASCAR's extremely tight dimensional tolerances, particularly after the introduction of the stricter Car of Tomorrow specifications. To gain a competitive edge and avoid costly inspection failures, the company needed to precisely replicate NASCAR's own verification processes. To solve this, Hendrick Motorsports partnered with Hexagon and implemented its proprietary GridLOK spatial coordinate system along with multiple ROMER portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

The solution from Hexagon involved creating a large, precise measurement volume using GridLOK plates, which allowed Hendrick's portable CMM arms to accurately measure entire car bodies and chassis. This enabled the team to optimize every area of the car for maximum performance. The results were highly accurate racecar assembly and the confidence that every car would pass official inspection. The measurable impact was gaining every possible fraction of a second in performance on the track, contributing to the team's continued dominance and championship wins. A company executive confirmed that Hexagon Metrology's tools helped drive results and had not let them down.

Hendrick Motorsports

Doug Duchardt

General Manager