You wont see a middle aged man in his range rover or 2010 320d on a race track.
But you will see him driving up the wrong lane with the intention of going past the person in the right lane and then cutting them up.
They do this because they believe that because they drive a brand new £30k - £40k car they must be faster than some 15 year old Toyota. Sometimes it's just nice to make them look like the pillock they are.
With regards to the other cars mentioned, like other performance cars, the same goes for them too sometimes.
They swan about assuming that because they have a more well known performance car, that they must be faster. Not always the case. As I said, it's not hard to nail it away from the lights, but it's impossible to make a slower car go faster than a faster car.
Some people just like to compare how their car accelerates compared to other cars. It's harmless fun at the end of the day, and substantially less likely to cause an horrific accident than driving round bends at high speeds I might add.
But every one gets their kicks in different ways, horses for courses and all that.
That's how you make drag racing sound there's alot more to it to get a good time down 
Atleast someone understands sarcasm 
