Briefly-stiff steering and red steering wheel light while cornering

....so at my last track day, I was lucky enough to have a session with noooo traffic at all. I pushed like mad, and had a blast, throwing the car into bends and powering out with all care (and smoothness) gone out the window. The car was OK with it....mostly.


On one occasion and one occasion only, during understeer coming out of a second-gear sweeper under WOT (with all nannies turned fully on), I had a very brief moment of the steering wheel locking or at least getting really really heavy. At the same time, the red steering wheel light came on. I backed off the throttle a little and the condition cleared and has not come back.


Should I be concerned about tracking the car again -- or should I just not mat it while still turning out of a corner? Was this maybe the TC/ESC kicking in?

That is an issue with the steering itself. The electric steering motor might have overheated.

Not related to any of the driving nannies.


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It's possible you temporarily overworked the EPS system with violent inputs. The electro-hydraulic PS in my old MR2 Turbo used to get overworked on quick slaloms at autox.

Had this happen to me on track in a Mk6, the steering was godawful heavy until i got to the pits, shut it off, and restarted it.