I like the show, and yeah you can tell when the producers step in to "create" or "amp up" the drama...the only thing I don't really like (which is typical of all these reality shows) is the way they "groundhog day" and spend 5 minutes recapping what happened in the last 10 minutes before the commercial break...I think everyone watching the show would get tired of that. Essentially they take 40 minutes of content and stretch it to an hour. But then again they make a 5 second 1/8th mile race last 45 seconds on film. lol.

It'd be cool if (just once) they showed a race 'Real Time'....just to give the people who don't know some perspective of just how FAST these racers are moving...then they can also get a sense of how quickly things go on inside the car and in the driver's minds.