Drag racing in video games might actually be dumber than drag racing in real life. For whatever reason, it's never at all realistic.
They really should have made a separate physics engine for the drag racing. There's no reason they couldn't translate all those cars' stats into a drag-specific model that made the drag racing actually fun and realistic enough that 1000hp pony cars aren't getting mopped up on by 600hp Renaults.
There's only one Renault that should be beating a turbo drag Camaro in the quarter:
