I've been going to the Beave and PiR for over 15 years. It's always been the case that there's no passing in the second high speed kink. For the longest time this never seemed to be a serious problem. Now we have a compliance issue and things have changed.......It's going to take me (and probably others) a while to learn how to get through the new chicane safely. I hope this doesn't detract from my love of riding at Pitt. Short of stationing a director at the kink to mete out punishment for violators I don't know what else could be done.
WERA has been racing there for almost as long with just as good of a record as well.
I felt the 6 hour endurance went smoothly with the chicane this year because of the atmosphere of endurance racing. Having done one or two of them since N2/WERA rebooted the series back in 2016, I've always felt the endurance race starts are just a little more relaxed than a sprint race. When you can keep teams like Twisted Speed and AoD in your sight for the first lap, there's your sign...
Yeah, the teams are hauling ass, but there seems to be a few more clicks of "Ride Smart" in the endurance races, until the bikes separate and everyone kinda falls in place. Can't say the same for sprints...some racers go full potato lap 1 turn 1.
This natural separation of bikes after a lap or two during an endurance race means there's much more breathing room through the single line configuration chicane.