The C7 Corvette does great burnouts, that is, unless the driver doesn’t know how to do burnouts.
This rather hilarious burnout video comes to us from the YouTube channel of Sascha Dadabaev. As you may have figured out, it features a C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray driver attempting to do a burnout. It doesn’t go well at first, but as the old adage goes – if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
The requirements of a burnout
That sounds like a hymn from the Burnout Bible, if such a thing existed. That said, to make a great burnout video, you need two things – a car with enough power to spin the tires and a driver who knows how to do a burnout. The C7 Corvette in this video has more than enough power to roast the tires, but sadly, it is not driven by someone who knows how to do a good burnout.
There is one more requirement for doing a great burnout with a modern performance vehicle like the C7 Corvette. You need to turn off the traction control system and in this clip, it appears that the unwitting driver had to learn that part the hard way.
Try, try and try again
This video begins with the driver walking up to his Corvette in slow motion, looking all cool as he prepares to do a big, nasty burnout with his C7. Once he is in the car, he brings up the engine speed and lets the clutch out, but before the tires spin enough to make any smoke, the traction control engages, the tires stop spinning, the car rolls forward slowly and stalls. That was fail number one.
The driver takes a second shot at the burnout, but he seemingly didn’t learn about the traction control system and once again, the Corvette wont spin the tires and it bashfully rolls forward.
Finally, on the third attempt someone has clearly explained to the driver how to turn off the traction control button, allowing him to do a decent burnout. The back end walks out to the left, pointing the car towards the wall that is very close to the passenger side, preventing the burnout from going on for very long, but at least he figured out how to spin the tires.
It is like seeing a baby take its first steps, with this Corvette owner learning how to smoke the tires in his Chevy sports car.
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