I couldn’t put all my eggs into one expensive basket. I’d have to have a second car just for the track.
I’ll happily risk/insure a £10k-£20k Z4M on track (costs me £200 for 3 Ring days), but like be so much more careful with a £50k-£75k motor - even the insurance would be 2x3 times - so there’s now way I’d be enjoying myself as much.
You see some at the Ring where it’s obviously they’re happy to have fun, but you’ll also see the same car being driven by someone who wants to go fast on the straights but brake very early for corners and hold everyone else up, just to blast away on the straights again...obviously too risk-averse with their ‘expensive’ car to brake a bit later or carry a bit of speed through a corner.
I had as much fun in a 170,000 mile, £500, 115bhp Alfa JTD as I did in the Z4 or the M5...just a different type of carefree fun...and a LOT more kerbs taken...and only one diesel top-up per day