Glossary / General

S's

8 Episode Mentions

Too Afraid to Ask

On many tracks, there are named sections of turns. “The S’s” means a part of the course with an S-shaped sequence of corners, and they’re saying the incident happened before that section.

Technical Definition

“The S’s” is a common track reference to a section of a road course where cars go through a sequence of S-shaped turns. The hosts use it to pinpoint where the crash/flip happened relative to the course layout.

Hear It Discussed

"Oh, it feels terrible. Like through the S's, like the S's at pit race are amazing, good fun. And I shut like the best I could do was like make my car as wide as possible."
237 - Goals vs Flow Track Walking 36:03

"But we have to acknowledge the fact that they were members of the Nazi party and Ferry Porsche was a member of the SS. [1464.5s] Again, my feeling is, is that was imposed on them."
Jay Gillotti Part 1 Porsche Patter 24:18