Must Admit

If the car is stock, you can get away with being pretty aggressive with relative safety.
I probably had over 300 track passes on slicks (5000-6000rpm launches, depending on track conditions) with nothing upgraded but the clutch and shifter.
If it has a stock shifter, banging gears can bend clutch forks... shifters are inexpensive and easy to install with minimal knowledge or tools.
Would not worry about the stock clutch on street radials, my stock one was still going strong with about 250 passes on slicks... only reason I upgraded the clutch was thinking it would make me quicker... and while in the end I went quicker, it was more temperamental on the street, and on the start line. Had to dial in more wheel spin (to offset the clutch slip I had with the stock one) to keep from dragging rpms down.

oh, I was not full power shifting, slight lift, it would still rev between gears, crunch going into the next and scratch the slicks on every gear change, so, certainly not babying it

Granted I replaced a lot of wear items on mine three years ago when I got it to run on road course. Ball joints, tie rod ends, steering rack, bushings, U joints, and LSD clutches. Drove it for six track days, daily driver over the summer, driven quite hard most of the time, so much fun. Only failure was the radiator cap and it was original, they are pretty tuff. Have a Spec Miata hoping to wtw race in near future, had a three day track event at Mid Ohio over this last Labor day weekend and motor broke first morning. Took it home and got the Mustang, drove it on track the next two days with no problems.

Is the engine original? I might baby it if the original engine is still in there. My 1993 has its’ original motor and I am contemplating an original resto even at 184,000+ miles. I bought it with 183,000 miles. Haha!

I definitely have a tendency to take it easy to avoid breaking something that I don't feel like fixing, and then some joker gets in my way, usually cause they're clueless morons and my temper takes over and well it's suddenly matted for a few seconds, then my brain takes over and back to putting around.

drive it like ya stole it, 196K and still hittin it

All cars break, I beat the heck out of the Mustang and it doesn't break. The POS Stratus I have breaks more and I don't beat on it.