Yeah it was. AND there was this one road that had KILLER traction. We would start off at the entryway to the grade school and almost exactly 1/4 mile away to the foot, was a pair of tall and narrow yellow and black hatched signs. We would have someone set up down line to watch for cars, and someone behind the starting line and when it was clear 2 cars would pull out of the drive onto the road and a starter would line them up an then it was 1...2...3...GO!