Yeah, pushing down hard on the go pedal can put the white knuckles on the hands holding the steering wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUhun5zl1e8
In the above video I was tuning the engine and needed to get data under boost. So I went down a deserted road, and just put it in fourth gear to run it out to around 6,000 rpm to collect the data I needed for the air/fuel ratio in the data table cells.
The curve in the road came up a LOT quicker than I had thought it would!