Before car racing, checkered flags were used only as symbols of surrender following skirmishes between chess clubs. Leave the board and battles behind with this Groupon.

$599 for an Exotic-Car Driving-Experience Package ($1,200 Value)

Customers will test-drive the following four sports cars:

• Lamborghini Gallardo
• Ferrari F430
• Dodge Viper SRT10
• Chevrolet Corvette Z06<p>

After breakfast and a quick briefing on the outing’s four vehicles, patrons choose their preferred stretches of road from three preselected routes. As they follow a lead vehicle in a 30- to 40-minute period, drivers alternate manning the wheel of all four rides, behind which they can shift into sixth gear and head up the course’s secret Z axis. Each excursion ends back at Lone Star Exotic Rentals’s office, where photographs and video preserve participant’s reactions to their high-speed experience.<p>