You guys aren't serious are you? Honestly, anoyone who hates on the show honestly does so because they know they would lose. Of course they run those races on closesd courses. The Discovery franchise has a ton of liability; they have to run closes courses to film. All of Season 1 was shot at a closed airport. It's not like they are prepping the crap out of the road and setting up a Christmas Tree though. The cars are honestly fast. All of those guys have been on fuel.com for years. Of course they put up a ton of lights to film; it has nothing to do with racing, and a lot more to do with the fact that no one would tune into a show about dim tail lights disappearing into a black background. Now Chi-town is complaining that they didn't air the chit-town races becuse the OKC guys lost when in reality they lost one race and then got weathered out. Bottom line is that they have to compete with 180 other reality TV shows; they have to add in a little bit of drama and a bit of TV nonsense. Of course you could always go back to watching the latest Kardashian reality flick where Kim is complaining that she might hook up with a guy with a small dick that night. As for me, I'd rather watch cars race on a closed unprepped road where they present no danger to the public. It's very hard to fake a street race. It's televeision, except it for what it is.
Kurt
Kurt