Ok, its time for a fresh topic, so I figured Id post-up a potentially spicy one.
Recently, it seems that it has become common for people to respect the car that demonstrates greater horsepower during a race more than the one that actually "wins" the race. For example, take a race from 40-140. The person who is behind at 140 could actually get more respect from the masses than the person who did win, if he is (1) spinning hard, (2) pulling back on the winner hard at the end or (3) if they keep going past the agreed-to speed and eventually he catches the winner.
The result is that racing, in a lot of ways, has become simply a comparison of how much power/weight you have. People really seem to only want to race others who they think they have a lower power/weight ratio. It eliminates a lot of the competition that used to exist. Until recently, most people ended-up running other people without any idea of how fast the others were. Sometimes the fun of the competition was more important than the potential they might loose.
Im not saying everyone was like that, or that no one likes competition now, but it does seem things are changing somewhat.
Anyway, this is obviously from my perspective, so I want to hear other people's opinions on the topic. How do you perceive the modern world of streetracing to be?