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Stop Traffic — Drivers will stop to check things out on your car lot or business property with the hood raised on Chuck Beck’s Lister Corvette #007 Lightweight racer parked in the front and a model waving a Checkered Flag.

Viral Video Marketing — Videos of the hair-raising 7000-rpm REVS will go viral online ensuring returns on your investment for decades.

This incredible audio treat comes courtesy of a trumpeted side-draft fuel injection system mounted on a 400 cu-in Donovan aluminum block that echoes sounds from a gear drive, Isky roller racing camshaft, Crower shaft rockers, and a Spiral Turbo Baffle exhaust system.

…AND Dellis is definitely not shy about sharing the music upon request, either.

Once Dellis starts talking, his matter-of-fact style of sharing driving secrets and racing stories is engaging for both enthusiasts and casual prospects alike.

Roadside Sign: FREE Driving Instruction

The word FREE next to the car instantly piques curiosity from passers by who’ll turn around to investigate.

Be Featured in the Evening News — In today’s Distracted Driving environment, including with each sale a FREE 1-HR Driving Lesson from a death-defying instructor is particularly newsworthy today…especially since Dellis has an esprit decor with the media being a full-journalist member of the Motor Press Guild since the late-’80s.  So, be sure to call the stations prior to your event.

Dellis’ on-camera experience allows him to comfortably explain the purpose of providing instruction to your new customers and media alike.

Proven Track Record — Dellis’ high-performance driving instruction dates back to the mid-’80s when he taught Police Pursuit Driving at the Bobby Rahal TrackTime Driving Schools.  Prior to that, he taught full-time at Skip Barber Racing Schools.

His mechanical engineering degree’s graduating thesis “Vehicle Dynamics for the Racing Automobile” gives him insight into the physics involved, but his ability to explain it in plain English is where Dellis shines.

Presentations on the Friction Circle from the DRIVER’s perspective teaches drivers how to analyze steering feel so they can intuitively make the right moves with their hands and feet to get the car to respond according to their wishes.

With 2-1/2 years teaching full-time at the Skip Barber Racing School under his belt, Dellis became the Chief Instructor and led the classroom on weekends at the Bobby Rahal TrackTime Driving School while working full-time as Associate Editor at SAE’s Automotive Engineering magazine during the week.

As Chief Instructor at TrackTime Driving Schools, Dellis was able to fine-tune his presentations over 6-1/2 years so anyone can understand the advanced car-control principles.  He also was able to put a set of custom-molded grips on the steering wheel of Bobby Rahal’s Indy car in Long Beach a month before its official track debut winning the Indy 500 in ’93.

PersonaGrip & The Steering Wheel Guy

Dellis invented and twice patented the custom-molded steering wheels that you see today throughout IndyCar, F1, NASCAR, IMSA, et al.

At the 1993 Indy 500 debut, Dellis designed the steering wheel grips for race winner, Emerson Fittipaldi (Ser.#001).  Other drivers that gambled on that yet untested technology include: Sullivan, Ribbs, Cheever, and St. James.

Mysteriously, the winning steering wheel disappeared during the Victory Banquet that evening.

To this day, no one knows the exact whereabouts of Ser.#001 although Dellis donated a replica  steering wheel bearing that serial number and similar engravings to the Indy Museum.  Dellis has since designed nearly 1000+ steering wheel grips as of this writing.

He has traveled the world — Berlin, Dusseldorf, and Ann Arbor, MI — speaking at steering conferences about how drivers can improve their ability to drive on the edges of the Friction Circle using a counter-intuitive relaxed grip on the steering wheel.

Please visit SteeringWheelTechnology.com to watch videos of his presentations, while SteeringWheelGuy.com has less technical information…both open in a new window.

Every Driver is Different.

Lessons begin by studying both hand- and foot-work in a low-pressure environment in the parking lot so drivers can adjust their seats properly.  The object is eliminate distractions inside the cockpit and be in perfect harmony with the controls in the car.

Once drivers are comfortably seated, safe lines through turns are learned.  Then, on the road, speeds are slowly increased until car control is developed using a disciplined, step-by-step process.

It all boils down to where the rubber meets the road…quite literally.

Your car doesn’t know if YOUR hands/feet are on the controls, or if Mario Andretti is seated in the driver’s seat.

A thorough understanding of how the tires interact with the road — both individually and as a set — allows drivers to visualize how to operate the controls without thinking.

With this new feel for the limit, drivers can intuitively extract the most performance from their cars with 100% confidence that they’ll remain in control and under the limit.

Dellis’ Friction Circle teaching method is designed to give drivers this intuitive feel so their hands and feet move to get the desired result.

Distracted Drivers — 1st-Hand Experience

With high-performance cars now in the hands of Distracted Drivers, Dellis knows first hand how dangerous that combination can be since he was literally killed for “38 minutes to an hour” (according to CARE Ambulance) by a distracted driver on New Year’s Eve ’04…he has spoken about his near-death experience 3x on the radio, so far.