When I was big into racing we would go up in the mountains at about 3 in the morning. We would actually compare performance of the cars. A drag on a old lowly traveled highway, then a road course run up the curvey mountain rd. We called it the "race to the line" b/c at the top of the mountain you would be in NC. We didnt see who could zip in and out of traffic the fastest. We also had "squatters" that would run the road first then sit at both ends and give a beep beep on the Nextel if any cars are cops were coming. The road had no other roads coming off of it for about 5 miles so it worked well, no houses either. As safe as you could be racing on the street. You would also be suprised that cars with 500+hp wouldnt do worth a crap on the road course. My truck was one of them. Cobras/GTs and Camaros didnt do as well as expected. One guy who had an SVT Focus with a turbo almost always won in the hills.