How bad is it to drop the clutch at high revs for a launch start?

I drive a 99 Miata and don't want to kill my clutch. I've only done this type of launch start twice but find it immensely fun. How bad is this for my car? would doing it another 10 times ruin my clutch/transmission?

It's pretty bad I would, some newer cars even have a rev limiter while the clutch is depressed so you can't dump it from very high rpm's due to transmission failure when doing so. But how else are you going to beat the car next you at the stoplight, right? If you can't afford the replace the clutch, I wouldn't do it, if you do have the money to pay for a new clutch and other whatnot, go for it.

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