Broadway or off Broadway.
Economics vs Ego-nomics.
When you have big Money and big front stage egos on the cutting block with no time to chitty chat yack about it, it commands a pedigree of some of the fastest cars out there. The likes of hot Stockers, Pro-stockers, and even rails with the shoots opening right there on the street.

Now granted, Detroit had all the combos bleeding out onto the streets instantly right off the assembly line which would call out that all Muscle being produced was christened on their Blvd's foremost and around the clock. Recreational yes,
Business, probably not for at least for the first few fertile years.

The quest for the crown may lay on who was/is more hungry and for what.
Or maybe there is no crown at all, just two different entities co-surviving and reviving themselves, not to mention many other cities that caught the bug.
Recreational feather in the hat supremacy, or cold hard cash in the hand.