This burnout video takes us somewhere overseas where a C6 Chevrolet Corvette owner is doing some big, nasty burnouts with a Christmas tree tied to the roof. There are no details to go with these videos, so we aren’t exactly sure where this tire smokin’ action takes place, nor do we know what kind of work (if any) has been done to this Corvette. It looks as though the other vehicles have German plates, so this action likely comes to us from Germany – and these burnouts do a fine job of representing the American way of slaying tires.
In the first video, the Corvette approaches from off in the distance and comes to a stop on what appears to be a damp road. With the Christmas tree strapped to the roof, the C6 Corvette quickly begins roasting the tires and after just a few seconds, smoke pours from the back end of the car. The driver holds the car in place for about 15 seconds, working to keep the tires spinning and smoking each time the transmission shifts into 3rd gear. After a pretty solid stationary burnout, the driver lets the Corvette roll forward and the burnout gets far more impressive without the engine bogging down after shifts.
The second video of this Corvette shows the Chevy supercar sitting in a parking lot of a shop of some sort, smoking the tires hard between a pair of BMWs…with the Christmas tree still tied to the roof. In this longer video, the driver keeps the car in one gear for the bulk of the burnout, preventing the unwanted shifts and the ensuing bog which follows the shift.
While the first video shows a pretty decent burnout, the burnout laid down by this C6 Corvette in the second video is one worth watching over and over.
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