Sometimes you just have to realize that your racing sanctioning body (or your speed equipment manufacturer, or your government, or your church, or your school principal) may actually know more about your personal welfare than do you. I have arrived there.
I once asked my local head of tech, "Why do I have to replace my belts every two years? Do you replace the belts in your daily driver every two years?" He explained that he has seen belts abraided by dragging on the pavement up the return road, saturated with fluids and grit, and so faded by harmful UV sunlight rays that you couldn't tell the original color." Unless he be accused of arbitrarily rejecting cars for belt condition it made sense to have belts updated regularly.
I am also a card-carrying member of The Church Of The Holy Statistics, Probability Synod. If you race every weekend, year after year, decade after decade, sooner or later your number is going to get called. I choose to be ready for that day.
