Sux, man I live in Houston, and still have an hour drive to Baytown and a 40 minute drive to the closest 1/8 mile track at HMP. Houston is too damn big! The thing is nobody will question you when you stomp azz at the track! The only thing I have seen is people following you to the pits to find out how the stock looking chevy just beat them by half a track! In these cases I will offer to show them flaws in their setup for a beer or two. At the end of the night I put my stock rims and all terrains on and my wife drives us home!!