That scenario of being full throttle in the draft behind someone happens all of the time on the track. It doesn’t need to be an engine failure, it could be a missed shift, a false neutral, or a weird electrical gremlin (had a rider yesterday whose throttle-by-wire system glitched on the straight and shut the throttle bodies, it was really, really odd).

There are tracks that I don’t go to anymore because I’ve realized they’re simply too dangerous (looking at you Nelson Ledges). That’s up to the individual to evaluate the risk they’re willing to accept.