Burnout contests are the most pointless form of motorsport yet they are incredibly fun to watch. The contests are immensely popular both here and in Aussie and attract thousands of people every year to these events.
The aim of a burnout contest is to make as much noise and tyre smoke as possible until either your engine blows or your tyres blow. The sport originated from a combination of people doing illegal burnouts on the street and drag racing and so people started these legal burnout contests to try and stop offending on the streets and have fun. I can't find any info on when the first burnout contest was held in New Zealand but I think it would have started around the early 1960's due to the increase in popularity of muscle cars.
People enter these events in pretty much anything from cruddy old Commodore's to some pretty expensive machinery such as Chevy Chevelle's or this V8 powered Ford Anglia. Car's are preferred to be rear wheel drive as this is apparently the best way to do burnouts.
With burnouts there is always a risk of things going wrong due to the close proximity of brake and fuel lines to the tyres, there is always a possibility of fire or accidents due to wheelspin.
The Aussie's take burnout contests far more seriously than us and they tend to not stop once their tyre's have burst and car's have caught fire. They also spend many thousands of dollars building their cars specifically for burnouts.
As you can see, New Zealand burnouts are not as serious as Aussie burnouts and are more for fun than competition.
Overall, if you want your car to die in a cloud of tyre smoke then burnout contests are for you. Then again, they are fun to watch :)
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