I've raced my motorcycles on tracks where there were steel Armco rails, pea gravel pits, trees, barbwire and then trees, and off a cliff into a river at the end of the course.
I'd willing take going into a net vs any of those options....
For El Mo, going East to West into the pucker bushes and fence wire is probably the easiest option to get up and running.
I think any racer with a functioning brain realizes that there are serious consequences should one run out of track when stopping. It comes with the territory.
Smitty