My personal preference is with Shawn. Im not afraid to run slicks, in fact I would like to just to see what it would be like. But down and dirty, I want my track times to be representative of what I would run on the street.
I have never went out on the street with the intention of racing and while I'll play occasionally, I just am not the person to come home and decide Im going to go out and race and so I need to prep the car.
I personally just want to get in the thing, go drive, maybe have a little fun but know what I am capable of from having run laps at the track. Though my preference is to just go pay $25 and make laps down the track until Im blue in the face.
I have a good friend that races in the motorcycle top gas class, indexing at 9.90 on a dedicated drag bike, and has two other bikes on his team, one being a Hyabusa, so we just usually set a day to go out and make passes and have fun that way.