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Re: Learning lessons from expensive mistakes.
Pro racer and long time Skippy instructor Jim Pace always stresses the importance of driving off track under control rather than trying to save a mistake and fly off track out of control. As you correctly report and were probably told after the incident, If you'd opened your hands up and eased out of the throttle you'd have likely gone 4 off but also likely have saved the car from damage.
You now have an internal reference point and seat of the pants sense of how quickly things can go wrong at speed when you ask too much of the car. Your eyes may have also gone to the place you were afraid of hitting rather than the place you wanted to go. That is a very common occurrence that usually ends badly as the car almost always goes where the driver is looking.
Glad you're OK and even better that you've thought it through and greatly reduced the odds it will happen again... Good job.
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You draw 'em a picture and they eat the crayons... (Duck Waddle commenting on the creative ways some people interpret driving instruction.)
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