I would have and I have. This is my other car:
20 years of driving and never touched a wall. Been in some hairy situations at much higher speeds than he was going too.
I'm still sticking to dumbass. And had this happened at my track I would have told him that to his face, and all the reasons why. Nothing worse than having the track shut down for clean up and possibly not finishing eliminations just because of an idiot.