I like the "suprising v-tec power and handleing over the apparant superior track car" better than both your explanations. It's much more entertaining. BTW, I'm not making that up, if you go to the YouTube page, that's what the owner of the vid actually says.
Reminds me of a thread a while back with vid of a guy in a mustang GT on the autobahn, chasing down a Carerra GT. The whole time he was raving about the power of the Mustang, yet every time traffic would open up, the GT would turn into a little dot.