Look, people love to see other people hoon on Rolls Royces and why wouldn’t you? Three Pedal Mafia’s Silver Shadow in 24 Hours of LeMons twisted many a panty into a bundle, but if that’s not your style, there are both Zero F**** Given progenitor Corbin Goodwin’s “Drift Royce” and the delightfully grass-thrashing Phantom from a couple years ago. However, we have to applaud Rolls Royce on finally granting official permission for whoever they lent the car to at Goodwood to flog a brand new Wraith up Lord March’s driveway.
I have no idea who the driver was, but they absolutely smoked the tires on the newly redesigned ultra-luxury coupe—which we might add has some wicked suicide doors—launching off the line. Video was captured from three different angles, embedded below. The second includes a lot of great laughter at the Roller burnout show while the third gives some nice slow-motion video of the tires turning into some delightfully thick, roiling smoke.
Good show, chap! Good show!
Get one thing clear – this is NOT a Rolls Royce but merely a BMW in an evening gown. I would love to see an elderly Silver Shadow with an engine bored and stroked to 500ci and fitted with a humongous blower creating its own mobile fog bank. It is possible to but a rough Silver Shadow for peanuts these days – all it takes is the imagination to make this real!
Sure, sure.
A 1969 Silver Shadow has run in LeMons and while it cost a bit more than $500, it was in no danger of stealing the win from anyone being something like 50 seconds a lap slower than anything else on the racetrack.