Thanks a lot for your great remake!! This was one of my favorite arcades from my childhood!! Thanks!!
I noticed, however, a couple of differences with the real arcade. They might be a bit subjective, but I feel them different from the real arcade:
The first one is the aspect ratio of the cars. I always remember this arcade as having a very noticeable "tall aspect ratio" for the cars (which was realistic for that time, where most arcades tended to draw almost square-ratio cars).
The second one is the sound. In particular, the sound for the crash. It had some kind of reverb with also some subtle high pitched sound on it.
You can see these two things in this clip (you can skip the introduction and go to the real gameplay):
BTW, I use Mac OS X for everything. I'm running your Linux version through a virtual machine in VirtualBox. Let me encourage to open source this, I'd have been able to build it natively on OS X rather than running it through VirtualBox (I understand there're sometimes reasons against open sourcing a software, so don't take this as a rant, I use a lot of closed source software, but I'm just saying that if you have doubts if anybody would appreciate your remake being open source, yes, it would be very welcome, specially for porting).