Why does the angle of a banked curve stay at 70-ish degrees past a certain velocity and radius value?

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$$\theta = \tan^{-1} \left( \frac{\frac{\nu^2}{rg} - \mu}{1 + \frac{\mu \nu^2}{rg}} \right)$$

I entered the formula above into a python code and ran it to:

Starting at 1, increase the velocity and radius by 1 and give out an answer for each iteration.

I found that past a certain point the angle gets to 73 or 74 degrees and doesn't increase much further than this.

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Is there a reason for this?