Race cars and track days are, for the most part, pretty far removed from what I consider to be relevant in so far as driving on public roads is concerned: this goes for motorcycles, cars and trucks.
When one gets into off road, or actually considers buying a dedicated race car or bike, it is a whole different fish (or can-o-worms, if you prefer)... Make mine Vintage, please.
AWD only comes in handy if you happen to operate your vehicle in a location where it ever rains or snows. Having grown up in Ohio when about the only FWD cars I can remember were my Dad's Simca, the Toronado & Eldorado, and an occasional (very occasional!) Renault or Citroen, RWD was the "norm" for Norm (pun intended). We drove in snow, sleet, ice and rain with snow tires (maybe) and chains in the winter, and nobody thought a thing about it. No GPS, traction control, lane warning systems, etc., ad nauseum & ad infinitum...
IMHO modern AWD systems are now (and have been for a couple decades) so sophisticated that at any reasonable speed or situation they are transparent, certainly MORE transparent than the current... Oh, never mind that!
I would point to the fact that modern Ralley vehicles are, for the most part, AWD. These guys go so fast on paved and unpaved roads that it is scary. I would be much more thrilled to be in the passenger seat of a professionally driven Ralley car on the road than in a race car on a track under the same circumstances.
Cheers!
p.s. Maybe a ride in a Navy jet off and back to a carrier might be even more fun?