The RIGHT Way To Strap Down Your Racecar 

Its been scientifically proven that no single method is better than the other as long as you slap the strap and say "That's not goin' anywhere" after you tighten them.

I've been strapping the front around a spoke but doing an "x" in the rear for years. Thanks for this video. Always enjoy learning a better ways to do things.

This was awesome! Very informative!

I always advocate 4 corner wheel strapping at every track event I go to. tend to stop by pits that I see are cross strapped. Great video.. I also prefer Over the tire strapping, instead of wrapping the strap around suspension parts / wheels just to keep tension and stress off those things.

Love seeing this awesome info see so many people driving with it in an x configuration scares the crap outta me

I don't even use a strap in Japan. I just use the 2 front wheel chalks and the winch to the tow hook. No other straps and 90 percent of the other people with single car haulers will do the same. Having nice roads is a huge plus.

The problem with tying down on your wheels is that your $2k shocks are bouncing all the way to/from the track. If you tow 200 miles, your race car suspension has just driven 200 miles.

AND, make yourself a set of designated straps, no stupid lengths hanging down, flappung around or jammed in doors or trunk lids. Then keep them clean and lubrikated.

I used to tie down through the spokes of the wheel but it was pulling the alignment off on the car over time.

Thanks

When I tow my jeep/rock crawler, if I strap it straight, it would bounce from side to side and get really close to the edge of the trailer. it doesnt move at all with the X pattern... (I strap it on the rigid axle, might be the difference here)

The "best" way is to the chassis with air bladders under the car front and rear so there is no suspension travel. A ten hour tow with only the wheels strapped is ten hours of wear and tear on your shocks and suspension components. If you have $10k shocks you dont want them bad boys wearing out.

Only end up doing a x pattern when my trailer is too short

The only time I've seen people have cars bounce sideways into the trailer wall is from straight strapping. The only transporter way is wheels "down" or chassis "down" not "out", as you correctly shown on track or trailer pics. I don't have tracks so I do both straight and crossed, because I only have about an inch on either side from wheel to trailer wall and the car becomes impossible to unload if it shifts, and some of these states have roads bad enough that I've gotten airborne before and seen fuel tanks and battery boxes fall off 18 wheelers near chicago, lol.

I use 2 straps total 😅

Did he just say “RIM”?????

I bet this is how @robdahm car came loose the other day

Or just dont use crappy straps and learn to put them on in a way that wont break them. Cross strapping is about the most used method of securement in transportation. The only way it can go wrong is if u are using the wrong straps or putting them on wrong