Oh, I realize that my car would be wayyyyyy fun 150lbs lighter with a close ratio box and on slicks. Thats at least 4 seconds a lap before I even start talking horsepower.

But, as I discovered a couple of weeks ago driving a Type R powered Civic around Road Atlanta... Its not just going fast in a fast car that pushes my buttons, its impossibly close and well fought racing. The Prod guys do have their fun, no doubt about that, but I haven't seen any prod racing anywhere near what Derek, Chuck, Vesa, and I were doing last month or what 5 or 6 of us were doing last year at the ARRC.
And I still don't have a scratch on my car, so we're doing it clean.

In short, fast cars are fun.
3 wide into turn 1 is funner
5 lead changes per lap, multiple times, is funnerer.

And... I have to share the car with a significant other, so we have to keep enduros and doubles in the equation. And racing prod in a SARRC isn't even an option, most of the time we're faster than those guys in ITC trim (sorry, but its true).