Case Study: Joe Gibbs Racing achieves rapid, low-cost custom race gauges with Stratasys 3D Printing

Joe Gibbs Racing Wins with Custom Gauges

Joe Gibbs Racing needed a way to rapidly adapt car instrumentation for vastly different tracks—limited dash space, NASCAR rules that ban wireless telemetry during races, and only a three-day window between events to design, build and install new parts. To solve this, the team turned to Stratasys 3D printing (using polycarbonate or Digital ABS) to create modular dashboard inserts that accept whatever extra instruments or switches are needed for a given track.

Stratasys enabled JGR to redesign and print custom inserts within the three-day turnaround, replacing a 21‑day CNC cycle with a 3‑day 3D printing run and cutting cost from $1,000 to $50 (an 18‑day/86% time savings and $950/95% cost savings). Using Stratasys 3D printing, JGR added transmission and radiator temperature gauges and a brake-cooling fan switch to give drivers real-time cues—improvements credited with helping the team win races and speed up track-specific customization.

Joe Gibbs Racing

Brian Levy

Design Engineer