Smoked by a Civic SI? Never!!

I know I'm not VTEC powered running only 160hp but WHY must EVERY guy that got bought one of these for his birthday ALWAYS try and smoke me? Notice I say "try". One has never gotten the drop on me and can NEVER hang on the twisties. There's even a guy out here in TN posing like he's boosted. How do you do this? He actually went out and bought an IC and had it mounted in the front bumper. I wondered why I smoked him. I also wondered why he would never let anyone sneak a peek under the hood. Now I know. Anyone else had problems with pesky SI's?