I have lost my brakes once... lucky it was 1/8 racing.
I was doing 120, hit the pedal and thought it was
strange the pedal went so far down... hit it again and
it went to the floor... fortunately I could zig zag
to scrub off speed, down shift to second and at the
last turn off I was doing about 30 and spun it out on
the turn off. I have a chute BUT being 1/8 mile
I didnt pull the safety pin.... now I never put the
pin back in