Why did this happen?

[Blue50]

Hello, i am new to this forum, but i must say, it is the BEST SITE ON THE NET!!!!! You guys have lot's of great info.

Anyway, today i was driving along minding my own business, when some punk guido in an 87-89 IROC Z blew by me revvin his engine. I thought, ok, so ill race this shmuck, my car has a good chance. I figured since his car is so much heavier, i would probably beat him even though he had a larger engine. Ok. We stopped at a light. Now this punk is revving like crazy and trying to act all cool. When the light turned green, i let my clutch out at about 3000. I had a bit of wheel sping, then a nice hard launch. The loser in the IROC was so busy reving his engine, that he forgot to put his car in drive before the light went. I saw him in my rearview suddenly light up his tires in a smoke storm. Then it happened. I was going about 45-50 and he was coming on me fast. Then at about 60, he flew by me. I tried to keep up, but he just kept going and going. I was WHOOPED BAD! Did his car have nos or something?? IT was quick as hell. I don't think that it was heavly modded either, because it looked like crap. Terrible paint, dirty, not taking care of, the whole nine... typical white trash looking IROC. Why was it so damn fast????