The chart below is our initial attempt for ranking manufacturers and tier levels here is decided on estimated performance, race team usage, prestige and company’s race history (past and present). Price is not factored into this ranking chart. We simply do not have the resources to test out performance of all the suspension companies ourselves, so we base off race results in professional racing or HPDE lap times. We have searched across the internet for a ranking guide for suspensions and we could not find anything. This guide is meant to be used as advice when selecting your next track suspension supplier and is not car model specific.

We categorized suspension manufacturers into 4 tiers below ranked based solely off their top of the line professional race level suspension offerings and the results they achieved with it. Tier 1 companies produces some of the highest race grade quality suspension kits for their customers with no expenses spared. The level of performance required from their clientele is crucial. The race success of these tier 1 offerings is ultimately decided through their support and configuration teams as they all produce quality racing suspensions.

As a reminder, driver mod is crucial to stretching full performance potentials out of these suspensions. It is possible for a better driver with tier 4 suspension to out lap a novice driver with tier 1 suspension. It is also possible for a lower tier suspension with better setup to perform better than an incorrectly setup high tier suspension – but we’re not comparing products in this ranking. The differences between ranks are relatively small within the same tier.

This will be an ongoing project and updated ranking will soon be crowd-source updated to reflect real life results from the motor sport community. There is no way everyone will agree with a set ranking of brands. This is our best attempt to objectively rank in numerical order considering the brands prestige, actual race results and history – not necessarily by the specific products they make. Once we have our database ready, the rankings will be changed overtime with new lap time additions. 

What do you think? Drop us a comment below on your thoughts if you agree or if you think a ranking incorrect please show us examples why it should be changed.

Suspension Manufacturer Rankings as of 4/19/2018