I've read this story a few times and always love it. Yeah, driving fast inherently carries a lot of risk, not only to yourself but to others around you, but it's a risk dependent on how well you know your car and how well you can drive it. You can't mitigate all the risk, just a chunk of it.

The likelihood is motorway speeds will be pushed out faster at some stage, so the record might be easier to break. However, 6 years on there's even more eyes in the sky so if you try it you're going to jail.