Drag race market is trivial in size to the sports car market. I suppose perception is partially down to the crowd you hang out with, but there's a reason the Mustang and Camaro have essentially become full-on sports cars, and it's not because Test and Tune nights across the country are full. Going fast in a straight line is just not what it was 20 years ago. We used to make cars practically unstreetable pursuing ETs that daily drivers run now.
Otherwise I think it's funny that slow people, even knowing nothing else about the car, would compare a car that literally comes with skinnies vs. one they know comes with a giant wing on the back. Really, as everyone knows, the key to building a drag car is creating as much high speed aerodynamic drag as possible.
