1300 hp mercury comet brake failure crash

I admit, I don't check my brake fluid every single time I drive the car. I do check it probably three times a month though. I will say this. If I ever feel anything out of the ordinary, I come back home. Have done it before with the old single reservoir master cylinder. It had a very, very slow leak. I returned home after getting it out of the driveway, because the pedal was "a little" lower than normal. Come to find out, the leak was the master cylinder had a crack in it on the bottom port that had a plug in it. That's when I went ahead and made the switch to the disc brake master cylinder on it now. None of us is perfect, I mean that truly. But I think we can do a better job of trying than these guys did.

The critical difference is that as soon as you noticed a problem, you addressed it.
Riding the brakes in a car with a sticking throttle is at best suicidal. A 1300hp car in that condition? Smoothbrain move.

In aviation, there's a thing called "getthereitis", where the urge to just "get there" overrides good judgment. This guy had "influenceritis" where he wanted more to be on YouTube than to have a functional car.