old game I forget

[psydev]

Hey, all. I used to play this old game in the arcade but I can't remember its name for the life of me. I tried looking around for it on the web but had no luck. I'm not sure how popular it was. Maybe you can help me find it?

It's a racing game, and you can shoot other cars with yellow ball-looking things. I think they slow the other guy down when you hit them. (It's not Road Blasters, in case you're thinking of that)

I'm pretty sure the steering wheel was not round, but rather rectangular with two handles on each side and each side had a trigger to shoot. One of the maps I remember playing was in a desert with palm trees and there were these Sheikh/Arab-looking guys in all white and turbans that I think you could run over or shoot.

I played this game no later than 1993, probably a couple years earlier. Anyone have any clue what it was?