Thanks for the Ride Ricky. I saw your dad race on tv. I can only imagine. If you drove one of the McLaren MK8s. That sound of Acura is priceless. So is the Porsche and the McLaren MK8s too. Awesome job.
The bottom most surface of most road course race cars is a plank of a tough wood because it’s much cheaper to wear that out than a carbon undertray etc, so what you saw when he went over curbs or bumps at high speed is just a little smoke from the wood burning a little from friction. When you walk tracks you can actually see parts where the track has been woodburned. It even smells like burned wood.
They took out the kink at the very top by the keyhole when the old GT cars used to race there. Now it just ruins the whole experience of the course. That's when men were men and took their hands off steering wheel to shift, and the only thing on their steering wheel was the talk button.
The kink is still there. It is known as the club course and at least some of us have been calling it the bus stop. They don't use it on pro events, but we in the SCCA do use it on out track days.
