I dunno...
That sounds kinda fishy to me, I've been autoXing for a while and taking the tour to the NASA/SCCA opentrack events and have yet to have an engine fail due to oil starvation. Maybe I'm just lucky?
I never overfill my oil, but *usually* change my oil before I hit the longer road courses.
By the way, did you guys know that the 3L oil pan is a little deeper and is slightly small in surface area?