The steering wheel in an F1 car costs $50,000 and the engines cost nearly $11 million.
Fools and Damn Fools
On-line there are all kinds of videos of people taking their cars to a race track for fun, and to test their driving skills; and also videos of people who bought expensive "sports" cars and who take them to the track for race days.
All cars, and even so called sports cars, are designed and built and marketed for public street use; and that means for use on public streets that are rigidly designed, built to specifications, and maintained to specifications. Cars marketed for street use MUST as per federal Dept. of Transp. must be built for street use otherwise the manufacturer will be subject to unlimited lawsuits. Conditions of raceways and auto racing are significantly different than conditions found under normal driving conditions on public roads. A vehicle built for raceways and auto racing is not and SHOULD NOT be suited for use on public motorways.
Automobiles equipped with oversized engines and stiff suspensions that are hyped up to be sold as sports or race replica cars are not in anyway race cars or true sports cars. This is the case even if the car is expensive (i.e., $80,000 or up) and has a similar appearance to genuine racing cars. It is a fiction that such cars that appear to be sports cars are in fact sports cars. The auto manufacturer must deliver a product for street use that is designed for and meets the requirements of street use; and that means that the car is definitely not safe for racing or raceway driving. That is the truth.
Race and sports cars bought at auto dealerships are posers and racing them is dangerous as well as stupid. Genuine race cars and genuine competitive sports cars are specially equipped and are indeed costly. Competitive cars specially outfitted for racing and rigorously calibrated for racing cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and often millions of dollars.
On-line you can watch countless videos of fools taking their fake and poser sports cars to the track and destroying those cars. The cars fall apart like legos. The cars cannot and should not be able to perform like true racing and competition cars. The requirements for competition are extreme and meeting the requirements is very expensive. Racing is no game, no pretending. Cars bought at auto dealerships cannot perform what we see true competitions cars perform. That cannot make the turns, hold their positions in turns, nor brake as true competition cars can.
Cars bought at auto dealerships aren't race worthy or raceway worthy, and neither are you and I and 99.99% of people able or trained for race and raceway driving. It is guaranteed that untrained people trying to drive on a raceway or to drive competitively on a track will respond inappropriately to nearly every situation. You have learned driving for public streets and you do that well but those habits are inappropriate on the raceway. You're fucked if you try to do actual racing.
Taking your family car out to the track is stupid and very dangerous; kind of like allowing the public to buy assault rifles.