Running an engine to the moon with no load or forward speed to speak of for minutes at a time, in a square box that has walls. A monster of a machine that is being driven by someone who has no survival instinct and has no thought process about having to rebuild a dead car should things go wrong. And lots…and I mean LOTS…of horsepower. Australian burnout competitions do have their draws. It’s the ultimate form of hooning. The tires are to be killed, the engine rang out like a bell, and there are reputations to uphold. The sheer overkill spectacle of the event itself is the draw. But no motorsport is without it’s carnage, and here burnout competitions don’t fail either. Whether an over-enthusiastic skid earns the car a concrete kiss and some folded sheetmetal or the engine’s greatness overpowers components, leaving little scalding chunks of metal strewn all over the place, something breaking or going bad is an eventuality. And don’t forget the fire…it’s honestly quite surprising how much fire can spew from the back of a supercharged tire-killing machine when the driver is hell-bent on finishing the job that they started! Our man Flinty has compiled his fourth video of when burnouts go bad, give it a look!
