the camera car was running 83mph. I'd clock the two cars racing around 120-140.If this was the crash I linked above, the Corvette was taken out by a drunken mustang driver. The Corvette driver wasn't innocent, but didn't really do anything wrong other than driving fast in traffic.
Today's high performance vehicles would likely be on par with race cars of 10 - 15 years ago and can be driven to 100k miles or more.