chicane
It’s a short, twisty section on the track that makes drivers slow down before going straight again.
A chicane is a series of tight, alternating turns on a race track designed to slow cars down.
Hear It Discussed
"You come out of the chicane, if anybody listening to this knows Goodwood, you know, you know that the pit straight, and you come out of the chicane, and magic is ahead..."
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"Senna was later disqualified for skipping the chicane where he and Prost initially collided, and Prost walked away with the championship."
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"So you've got this very enormously long front straight. But you see the, you see the chicane that looks like, not no, no, it's in the front straight."
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