Maybe they were racing for pink slips?
Watch Dan Bilzerian take the pink slip on a bet:
1965 Shelby Cobra Vs Ferrari 458 Italia…The old meets the new!
Meet Dan Bilzerian and Tom Goldstein, two very enthusiastic and competitive exotic sports car owners. On March 9th, 2011, the men met at the Las Vegas Speedway for a very special supercar challenge: Bilzerian’s tricked-out 1965 427 Shelby Cobra Vs. Goldstein’s Ferrari 458 Italia in a tense quarter-mile race—winner takes $400,000! That is almost 2 brand new Ferrari 458’s! I will not give away the winner–watch the brief video below!