If there’s one thing Aussies love, it’s burnouts. Auto enthusiasts from Down Under have set a new Guinness world record for the largest number of cars conducting burnouts simultaneously.
103 cars came together during an event in Canberra, New South Wales called the 28th annual Summernats (it is currently summer in the southern hemisphere) to participate in the intentional tire fire. 107 vehicles attempted the feat but only 103 were counted, because, according to Guinness officials, the smoke show needed to last at least 30 seconds.
The cars that participated consisted mostly of Australian market Fords and Holdens, but included at least one blown W126 Mercedes coupe and a Subaru Sambar ice cream truck for good measure. Some cars used tires dye-injected to emit green or pink smoke. The result, as one might imagine, was an immense nebula of pulverized rubber rising to coat otherwise shiny paint jobs, nostrils, raised camera phones and wayward marsupials in a fine layer of latex dust.
The record overtakes the previous burnout record, itself set two years ago, also at the Summernats. That one, however, consisted of a relatively paltry 69 cars. Along with the recent chronicling of a parallel parking Mini and a BMW M4 conducting the “most drifts around a car driving on two wheels in one minute,” this continues the Guinness tradition of dubious and contrived things for which to set records.
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