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Originally Posted by u/Josh
I believe the typical explanation for this is that with a sway bar your spring rate is different if the car is rolling than if the car is hitting a bump so you have to compromise between these two situations when choosing damping curves.
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I may be way off here, but I would think that even on a race car you would run digressive or regressive damping curves to soak up high speed bumps while allowing stiffer damping for low speed suspension movement, so it doesn't seem like you would really be compromising.
Of course, with soft springs and stiff sway bars, you might end up with more dive and possibly more squat than you want for ideal handling on a track, especially with sticky tires.