Burnouts Ruining Tires

[MossRoad]

Check out
HOONIGAN Ken Blocks Gymkhana Seven video driving around L.A.
Some serious drifting.

The Hoonicorn is insane. I've watched many of the Hoonicorn VS the World videos. Amazing stuff.

 

[edmoor]

Probably not a typical thread title in a tractor forum and I can't say that I've ever seen a tractor do a "burnout". With today's high horsepower vehicles, I see a lot of videos where guys lock the brakes and do extended burnouts until the vehicle is no longer visible in all the smoke.
My question is what are they trying to prove. I understand that it takes torque to break the tires loose and power to keep them "burning" and I can understand also the need to exhibit this power but why burn up the tires with extended burnout? I admit the fun of "peeling out" as a kid but a short squawk was the maximum my '54 chevy 3-speed was even capable of.

Another popular gig nowadays is "drifting" and I'll admit to doing this on a gravel road as a teenager and its a wonder I never rolled a vehicle. Doing it on pavement, however, appears to be a whole new ballgame to me at least and I've seen organized races where they are constantly "drifting". The cars could get around the track much faster driving straight so what is the point other than entertainment?

This post really don't belong here..it belongs in idiots drag racing posts somewhere.

 

[npalen]

My mom taught me how to drive. Some of my favorite lessons were going out to a parking lot in the snow and learning how to do donuts, correct slides, etc. Practice, practice, practice. That eventually lead to donuts and slides on dry pavement. Great fun. And a good lesson in how to control a vehicle with the gas pedal and the brakes. I got pretty good at it.

Unfortunately, if you don't practice often, you lose those skills. Just like putting the motorcycle away for 5 months in winter. Spring rolls around, you get out the bike, and go a bit too fast only to discover your skills aren't what they used to be.

Yes, learning how to control a vehicle in a skid is a skill that should be taught in drivers ed! I learned it (unchaperoned) in a '47 Dodge pickup back in the 50's out in the pasture in dry as well as slick conditions. It definitely was "drifting" but what better way to learn. We survived.

P.S. Also learned a lot plowing two miles of mud road to and from school.

 

[blee03]

Same doing wheelies. Needless abuse of equipment.

Hahaha, I wheelie just about everything I got... my dirtbike, wife's dirtbike, pit bike, old quad, whatever.
They all still run fine, no issues.
On my YZ450F I can actually run thru all the gears in a wheelie, loads of torque makes it super easy.

Never wheelied the tractor, not planning on it either.

 

[ultrarunner]

Some of the tractors at tractor pulls display amazing HP...

And then there is the monster trucks...

 

[blee03]

Some of the tractors at tractor pulls display amazing HP...

And then there is the monster trucks...

I was just at the truck and tractor pulls at Armada Fair in Armada, MI
I'll have to start up a tractor pulling thread to post some pics / videos

 

[SmallChange]

MY tractor does burnouts! It spins the rears really well in the the bog across the path in my woods!

Yeah. That's really more of a steamout.

 

[DutchInNZ]

Too easy money fuelling mental immaturity.

 

[newbury]

Drifting is a very good skill. I learned it on frozen ponds/lakes in Vermont, mostly with a '69 VW beetle. Like in the commercial.

 

[rontaki]

Drifting is a very good skill. I learned it on frozen ponds/lakes in Vermont, mostly with a '69 VW beetle. Like in the commercial.

Wish I still had my '69. And the '64 too.
In those, and my air-cooled VW vans, I learned very good freeway strategizing skills. Not having brute power, I had to figure out other ways to outsmart the lane hogs and other one-bun (half-fast?) drivers.