[turtlecrxsi]

I agree completely. I think if the car is built up with turbos and/or spray then it should be used to it's full potential. Seeing that episode with the fat boy in the Civic with all of those lengths and still get his ass handed to him was simply pathetic, and obviously embarassing to him. All because of the stupid pre-race negotiations bullshit. I think if you have slicks and everything else then you should be good to go from the beginning and THAT is what would make it fair... especially when comparing apples to oranges like turbo civics and blown TAs. I also agree that it is half driver, and some of these drivers suck pretty bad. A lot of it is for entertainment... the trash talking, the building their stuff up, etc. Some of it is quite hilarious. I loved that episode where the skinny black dude was driving for this guy against the big boy's GTO? and on the first race the GTO's hood flew open and smacked the roof and top of the windshield. Then the announcer dude asks the skinny black driver dude if he felt bad about what happened and the reply was simply no.