Sure. Stop making bets you can't afford to cash. Make good choices whenever and whereever you can.
I used to regularly track a stock Honda S2000 convertible for several years, and of course area clubs would cut me loose open lapping for the day as it technically met the broomstick rule. In hindsight, pushing that around was really, really dumb. Who cares what the rules say? I was going more than fast enough where I could have easily gotten hurt out there. I eventually realized it, sold it, and got a safe ride with the gear I actually needed to go fast. I should have done it years earlier.
I believe that some people don't want to hear gloom & doom or all the stories of cars being lost because they would rather ignore it and think it could never happen to them. It was the other stupid guy that hit the oil slick and put his Porsche into the wall last weekend, right? I think this is the wrong approach.
Really when it comes down to it some just want to do whatever they want to do. They want to hear that they can go fast on a race track and not need all that crap because their contingency planning is some-how superior to the next guys. That the odds are some how conquerable.
Safety is one of those areas where you plan for the worst and hope for the best. Do they say fires are rare so there is no need to install a sprinkler system? NO. But clearly we all know that there are a lot of people on this planet that pretty much have to see a sky scraper burn down before they do something about it.
I was talking to one of the Panoz drivers in my region and asked him what got him into his GTS, and he said it was the two week hospital stay after he totaled his Ferrari 360 at PIR at triple digit speeds. He said he would never drive a stock street car like that ever again. That was just really stupid, so he finally went ahead and bought a safe ride that was engineered for the race track. Sounds pretty smart to me.
