Originally posted by 954RR
Do that many people really feel the need to cheat at these events?
Yes.

Just so that you understand what we are talking about, a lot of the tracks around here used to have EFI type shootouts, Lakeland had a lot of them, Desoto had a few. Basically the people that showed up were street racers. Street racers cheat, plain and simple, when you have the same group of guys at a shootout that were out at Gandy the night before, rules are going to be broken

We are not talking about organized classes of racing, we're talking about people driving their car to the track, putting a number on the window, and racing. The same people that will tell you straight faced that their car is on the motor, only has exhaust, and they need a couple of cars and a move if they are going to race you for $100

If it will help you sleep any better, this was the only event that I was involved in blatant cheating and we went out in the second round, despite having nitrous on the car.