[mustardjohn]

Yes, I would say I won. He lead the first little bit. Maybe I was a little slow on the start or maybe the Alero gets more torque as it did actually chirp the wheels which isn't easy to do in a 3.8. The guy was really asking for it.

This is not exactly a "street" as it is a 4 lane divided. If you are first at the light then it is very rare to have anyone in front of you for the next 5 miles and hardly any chance of someone pulling on from the side. Southeast Texas has a lot of these "opportunities". It is not very crowded here except in Houston or on I-10.

I had a great race with a Mercedes SUV at the same light with my Contour SVT 2.5 V6 a while back. Won that one too. It was a good match up though. Some of the SUV's are getting very powerful especially the BMW and Porsche.

Personally I like the smaller cars you don't end up going 140 mph or something in 1/2 mile. I thought that might be too tame for the folks that post here though.