I'm with EjGlows on this one.
Let's lay out some basics first though:
There's a certain level of inherent risk associated with motorcycle racing. There are certain things that we do to make sure that the risk is managed appropriately - including corner workers (I love those guys!), good gear, and proper maintenance of our motorcycles. Those are the external factors we use to mitigate the risk of crashing or being involved in an accident. AFM has established that those things are worthwhile, and should be enforced accordingly. (They provide corner workers, have gear and bike tech to appropriately enforce the rules, etc).
The OP probably took care of those things just fine.
The other thing is harder to measure, but the AFM still attempts to measure it to some degree - rider actions are reviewed for taking people out, there was (dunno if it's still there?) a crash rule, etc. NRS is part of that process, the assessment of risk that an individual has when it comes to racing.
Here's the thing though, there's absolutely zero reason to go out there and do something like this unless you have something major to prove. His improvement is good, that's for sure, but honestly, the entire approach reeks of arrogance and ego. The entire thing is stupid across the board, because it's already the middle of the season, so it's not like he's gonna fight for a championship, and he could have just as easily attended a few trackdays, and then done the October rounds of AFM and probably actually achieved his goals.
I made a point of not telling anyone that I was a new rider. I was confident in my ability to keep myself and others safe, but I knew that if the trackday providers found out that someone showed up at the track with an R1 looking to go fast, and this person had never ridden a bike before... Well, I think they wouldn't have let me out on track.
Safety first. Always. If I'm ever presented with an opportunity for going fast vs. riding safe, I will always opt for safety. Always.
These two quotes exist in complete opposition to each other. A reasonable modicum of safety would have been doing at least a full track weekend BEFORE going racing. I mean, functionally, none of his goals were achieved, he didn't make it into the novice class - this entire thing is just a testament to the ego of one man, willing to put his desires and goals over everyone else, failing aggressively, and doing so while causing a fuckload of risk.
The other major problem is that the obvious "safety" option isn't always obvious on a motorcycle - you think you're being safer by giving that guy who just passed you a bit more space, running a touch wide and you get collected by the guy behind you who was expecting you to hold your line. If he has previous car experience, how does he handle the loss of his mirrors? We have had plenty of threads over the years on BARF where car guys insist it's insanely unsafe to ride on the track without mirrors because they're used to that, but it's not appropriate or needed on a bike. I love the NRS guys and training, but having been through it, it's not like there's a single instructor following around a rider, and at this level of experience, that's the expectation I would have for a proper evaluation of the rider.
We all accept risk when we swing our leg over the bike, street, track, race. I hope that this situation will cause the AFM to be a bit more diligent about how they vet riders as a result of this sort of thing, before someone gets hurt the first time he's in a Novice race and gets strafed by lapping traffic and does something "safe" that isn't actually safe.
I also think the OP is ultimately failing to understand some basic things about life that lead him to this point: As Enchanter has pointed out to me in the past, not everyone is capable of doing everything. Denying that gets people injured and killed. The way people get to do things and live long, successful lives doing risky things is by not pitching themselves into high risk situations over and over, but by appropriate managing and moderating that risk. If it were just him, go hog wild, but in this case, the OP isn't the only person who might have ended up injured or paralyzed in the process, and his self ascribed goal is to "show people how the power of determination and hard work can help you succeed". Except that he's just teaching shitty lessons and failing.
If you want to teach people something meaningful, teach them how to be successful, not how to flail into a risky situation with minimal preparation and get out of it thanks to some inherent kinematic intelligence that the next person may not have.
Ultimately, he set himself up for failure and failed, the entire story is a non-starter unless you move the goalposts after the fact. Unreasonable goals, highly risky, lack of reasonable preparation, and he failed, and then a pile of self piteous wailing about how bad he was. The best thing to come out of it was that he didn't get someone, including himself, hurt in the process.
Seriously, OP, might be time to grow up a bit.
