It wasn't Virtua racing was it?
I remember playing it when I had a birthday party at an arcade way back when (15 or so years ago) with unlimited games for me and my friends and I was playing it heaps because it was the most expensive game to play there, and I liked to drive as I was too young to actually drive.
I remember when I had my 2nd arcade party and some guy was playing SF2 and I got the attendant to rack up a credit for me, then once I kicked this dudes arse he wanted to go me. He soon realised that it would have been in vain, because even if he kicked my arse, my 20 friends who had free video games for 2 hours were gonna come after him, haha!
While on the subject of SF2, here is a cool video of the best SNES game ever,
and a funny parody, of SF: the later years