It had been painted gold and mounted on a mahogany plaque. I'm an engineer, so of course I get a lot out of the challenge of engineering a car that can take the punishment. Over the years, cars have evolved to carry a greater and greater number of shock absorbers. Typically the fast single seat buggies might have three or four on each rear wheel and two on each front. Not to mention two more duct-taped to the frame somewhere.
Racers have many pet special things they do to their cars.
You can tell that one guy had a voltage regulator fail one year because he will have two mounted side by side next to the engine. I always ran two electric fuel pumps. I don't know why. I never had a pump failure. It just seemed like the thing to do.