^ Everyone has a fear of crashing, a fear of other drivers/riders and a fear of wildlife ruining their day/week/year.......to some extent
I think many a track only rider doesn't even realize many of the same inherent dangers found on the street are also on the track.... the big upside though............. medical staff is typically on site and you have corner workers watching out for you and signalling you of the dangers they can see... but...
~It wasn't that long ago that a couple of motorcycle riders hit deer at the kettle bottoms of Road America
~it wasn't that long ago a couple of riders crashed at BIR after hitting a turtle crossing the track, and many more riders just fell down trying to avoid the turtle and got out in the grass
~even at the little tiny local 1.1 mile track @ DCTC we see deer routinely on the north end of the track and while I have not heard of any motorcyclists hitting them, I have heard of of some of the car groups hitting them, one unlucky corvette guy had one of them come right through his windshield and into the passenger compartment
~ then of course you have the jackasses on the track who ride unsafely.... I can't even begin to count how many crashes I have seen and heard of where some fucktard on track was making an unsafe pass or just being a douche and hit someone else and put them on the asphalt
~ and of course you have fences and walls and increased speeds etc...
~and you have a bunch of people riding "fast" in close proximity on bikes that may very well be poorly maintained on sketch ass tires because they spend all thier monies buying into the trackday and now can't afford (cheap ass motherfuckers) to keep good rubber, brakes and properly maintain the rest of their bike.....
~I have even seen peoples dogs get hit by riders at trackdays, pits.... but still they crashed as the result
As far as some of these fucktarded retarded dumbfucks who haven't a clue...... Some days are easier to deal with them than others.... somedays it just "fuck you, you're too stupid to be my customer!", other days it is a nice stress reliever to make fun of them and totally rag on them for their stupidity and push their buttons til they damn near cry and make them feel like the idiot they are, but make sure they learn something too- and some of those actually turn into decent long term customers, some never return becasue they want to not learn anything and continue to believe all the dumbs on the forums who talk about stupid ass bullshit like ..... " I never checked my valves until 100,000 miles and they were all perfect, so you don't need to check your valve clearances either as it is a waste of monies" or the guys who profess to have never changed the oem original air filter on their C14 and claim to now have 50,000 miles on the bike and it runs as good as it did the day they bought it---total bullshit as those bikes eat air filters every 10,000 miles or less they need new!
There are the dumbs and then there are the fucking morons....... some days it is easy to tell them apart, other days it is a bit more challenging but they are always found out which category they are in...... They, quite simply make me appreciate my good customers that much more!!!!!!!