Yeah that is the right thing to do. I have two cousins that got hit like that by gassing it at the green, and the sad thing is, they keep gassing it at the green to this day because they don't realize they are doing anything wrong.
It is hard, especially in a v8, to take off slowly; getting beat off the line by some crappy ford focus or a senior in an Oldsmobile is not something to be proud of. But when those people get hit by some car running the red believe me I will not feel sorry for them.
To Shawnstcyr; That's pretty brave of you to admit killing 3 people, I don't think I would go around telling everyone that if it were me.