This LS1-powered Holden pickup car shows how to kick ass in an Aussie burnout competition.
This insane burnout video comes to us from the YouTube account of Flinty460and it features a Holden Commodore Ute showing how to put on a proper smoke show. This footage was captured at the Street Machine SummerNats 31 in Canberra, Australia, and while we don’t know if this car won – we know that it made it into the finals of one of the world’s greatest burnout competitions.
The World’s Greatest Burnout Competition
If you are unfamiliar with the Australian Street Machine SummerNats, before looking at the Holden Commodore burnout, here is a quick rundown of the event.
The SummerNats is a massive automotive festival with celebrity appearances, live music, a dyno competition, a series of “driver skill events”, a trade show and – most importantly – a burnout competition. Sure, lots of festivals have burnout competitions, but few events outside of the Australian continent do it as well as the Aussies. Unlike American burnout competitions where you sit in one spot and spin the tires for 30 or 60 seconds, Aussie burnout machines are given a big, open space where they can throw the car around and create as much smoke as possible.
With the SummerNats being one of Australia’s premium events and Australian burnout competitions being the best in the world, it could be said that this burnout competition is the world’s greatest.
The Holden Commodore Ute
Aussie burnout machines are usually your average vehicles with skinny rear tires and the biggest engine that the owner can stuff under the hood. It’s not uncommon for street cars with an 8-inch-wide rear tire to hit the pad with a 2,000-horsepower funny car engine and roasts the tires until they pop.
In this case, the Holden Commodore is powered by an LS1 V8 and while it doesn’t have a gigantic blower sticking up through the hood, it is clearly not a stock engine.
In the video above, the Commodore Ute known as “Foggin” makes two incredible runs – one to get him into the finals the final round itself. We don’t know if this Holden wins, but we know that this LS1-powered car with a truck bed put on one hell of a show.
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