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The armco was modified to prevent that problem from happening again as soon as the wreckage of the #01 was removed from the track.
I've always felt that, if the cars are trying to lift off, they're simply too pitch sensitive. Therefore, adjust the cars, not the tracks in those cases. Anyway, the only incident at Thunderbolt of a car lifting the front wheels was with one of the Brumos cars when it was very close behind two cars going side-by-side. Heck, they still warn people about following another car closely over the hump on the backstretch at Road Atlanta.
Thunderbolt is NOT too narrow. At a minimum, it's the standard 40ft (12m) wide the whole way round the lap; I'm not sure that Road America, aside from the start/finish straight, has ever been widened from its original width of 30ft. And Thunderbolt is NOT that "Mickey Mouse" or overly tight on the whole, as without the chicane, the average lap speed for LMPs would certainly be quicker than around Mid Ohio or Laguna Seca.
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