Watch Dave Nelson’s Awesome Fire Burnout As Performed At Santa Pod Last Weekend


Watch Dave Nelson’s Awesome Fire Burnout As Performed At Santa Pod Last Weekend

We get lots of videos from people who ask us to check them out and they usually don’t quite live up to expectations…but this one blew them right out of the water. The dude between the pipes is Englishman Dave Nelson, driving his supercharged, alky burning, big block front engine dragster. What makes this video even better than that? DID YOU MISS THE WORDS FIRE BURNOUT?! All but extinct here in the USA, the fire burnout is alive and well in the UK where at least a couple guys a year perform spectacular blazing burnouts much to the delight of fans. The key is getting the whole thing right and Nelson sure does with help from his pal Rob Loaring.

In our mind, proper fire burnout etiquette requires a large puddle of combustibles and the driver who has sack enough to sit in it and marinate for a second before burning out of the lake of fire. Some guys will get on the throttle instantly but you lose some of the drama that you have when the car is literally sitting there engulfed in flames. Nelson knows how to get this thing done because the fire gets lit, he sits until the whole thing is ablaze and then the drops the hammer, throwing the hellfire everywhere and blazing the tires right past the starting line.

We dig this video because we see the show from a camera facing from the back of the motor toward Nelson and another camera that is on the frame ahead of the engine. Finally we see it in slow motion. This all rules.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE A FIRE BURNOUT PERFORMED TO PERFECTION AT SANTA POD!


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6 thoughts on “Watch Dave Nelson’s Awesome Fire Burnout As Performed At Santa Pod Last Weekend

  1. Tet

    Sadly I couldn’t make the weekend, but I’ve seen a couple of videos of the others that did flame burnouts. All round legend John Everitt did an awesome one shown here, staying in the flames far longer than anyone expected!

  2. Dave Allen

    Dragstalgia was awesome! did no one tell you about eurodragsters webcam bangshift??
    We had rat trap AND pure hell!!!!!!! It was an epic weekend!

  3. iain starrs

    You shoulda been there boys! You missed out big time.Almost a thirty car field of Willys.Outlaw Anglias slingshots galore. Rat Trap n Pure Hell are off my bucket list,they were awesome.Full crew of gasser circus with all the 57s 55s henry Js you name it.Cacklefest fire burnouts and Wendy Baker DROVE her fueler Mustang funner car to the drive in movie! EPIC weekend.Get some sponsers and come next year it will be even better!!!

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