Yes, you want to increase scope of your safety envelope. Not just focus on specific builds in isolation. Many unexpected things can happen at track when all bikes are considered.
Racing orgs. have been around for
long time, +100yrs. They've seen just about every possible scenario. Thus, have developed rules that may seen over-reaching, but is designed for efficient running of races. Such as 8-ltr belly-pans requirement. Sure, your bike may be in tip-top shape, but there are
always failures on track for group as whole. For example, someone may miss shift, and zing their bike past redline to 20,000rpms and snap con-rod. Which goes out through engine-block and through radiator (seen this happen several times). Now you've got +4 ltr of oil and coolant gushing out of engine. Belly-pan's job is to catch that. Might not have ever happened to you. Add 100s of bikes over course of 10-years, and you'll have at least one or more incidents like these.
Ran into interesting development of race schedules with ASMAracing.com compared to others. Rather than have set start-times for every race, they just start 1st race at 1000am. Then after that race is done, start next race, then next and so on. This allows for variable durations to account for crashes, clean-up, moose on track, etc. Pretty nifty idea and so far, all their race Sundays have concluded on time before 4pm.
