While some drivers are more quiet about it than others, virtually every person that pilots a high powered drag car loves doing the burnout. In this case the driver is at the helm of what sounds like a turbocharged four cylinder powered drag Celica and the burnout that he’s (we think it is a he) doing is actually taking place in Antigua. We showed you this strip recently in the video of the island’s first nitro burning car firing up and doing a burnout. This driver was obviously looking to put on a show for the fans and you can hear him get right after it, get the smoke billowing and start to carry the burnout down the track.
Everything was going pretty good and then all of a sudden the machine gets crossed up and completes a pretty trick looking 180 right in the middle of the track. The driver got really lucky in the fact that there was not a car in the other lane and that he did not get into the wall during his excursion. We showed you Connie Kalitta basically pulling this same move in a nitro funny car back in the 1970s so no one is immune.
We still get a kick out of the fact that there is a dedicated and seemingly pretty nice drag strip on the island of Antigua. We gotta check that place out!
Most of those islands have drag strips and they are really grassroots and super cool. I always try to drag my family to one whenever we take a trip down that way but it never works out. I’ll keep trying.
No worries Alex. If you ever find yourself in Antigua, we’d love to offer you the VIP package. Reach out to me, and we’ll invite you to the hospitality tent of our Nitro Funny Car.