With two weeks until the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, potential damage to roads around our nation's capital has bizarrely become a political talking point. After tearing up the Reflecting Pool by driving cars over it funsies, Trump's Freedom 250 is going to put race cars all over DC roads to go vroom vroom and tear those up, too. Lifting a manhole cover doesn't damage a road. Single-seater race cars generate so much negative pressure under their floors that they will suck any loose object off the ground. The cover punched a hole in his car's floor, and Sainz temporarily lost feeling in his legs.