69 Cars and the World's Biggest Burnout

There are some important differences between America and Australia. While we endure the bitter cold of winter, they bask in the summer sun. While their toilets flush clockwise, ours flush counter clockwise (though not because of the Coriolis Effect.)

But there's one important thing the two nations share, and we're not talking about the love of a good beer or watching sports played with a spheroid. It's the V-8 engine, and what it can do when you dump the clutch at 5,000 RPM.

Yesterday, 69 like-minded Australians gathered at the 26th annual Summernats car festival in Canberra to break the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous burnout. For ten seconds, a mix of classic and late-model muscle cars unleashed a fury of supercharged and naturally aspirated noise, and a multicolored cloud of tire smoke. By Guinness' reckoning, the Aussies out-American-ed America by a count of 19 cars.

While the organizers are unsure if they'll try to break the record next year?"I think they're so burned-out," Australian Guinness World Records rep Chris Sheey jokes (awfully)?we can only hope Yankee gearheads will dole out a proportional response.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/auto-blog/69-muscle-cars-and-the-worlds-biggest-burnout-14938919?src=rss

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