Why are people scared of the drag strip?

Here's a list of all the things I've broken at the track in the several years I've been taking it. First I blew up my 318 trying to hold 3rd gear to the end of the track one night LOL guess whose fault that was? I broke an 8 and 3/4 with heated up wrinkle wall slicks on a very prepped track dumping the clutch at 6 grand...
Also I threw an alternator belt because my bottom pulley was too big...
Knock on wood that's it...