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Heating your tires up before a drag race is an important step in ensuring that your car racing will perform at its best. Heating tires usually involves completing a quick burnout, or spinning of the rear tires, in order to increase the temperature of the tire surfaces. Heated tires are able to grip the road better than cold tires, which will result in better race times.
Determine whether or not you want to wet your racing slicks in the water box prior to the starting line. The water box is a shallow trench that you can drive through prior to the race. While this will help you to spin your tires faster in the burnout, more and more experienced racers question whether wet racing slicks really contribute to the speed of the car racing.
Perform the burnout to heat your tires. Experienced drivers can usually get the rear tires to spin by dropping the clutch hard and quickly stepping down on the gas. You can also step on the gas and the brakes at the same time, which will allow for a more extended burnout (although this method may cause excessive wear and tear on your brake pads as well as your tires).
Be careful not to burn out for too long. Most experienced drivers keep the tires spinning for no more than 3 seconds, long enough to discharge any excess dirt and debris from the tire surfaces. Other drivers "chirp" their tires, which means that the burnout is short enough to make a brief chirping noise.
Give yourself plenty of room before the starting line to complete the burnout, in case your tires catch quickly and propel you forward. Accidentally moving into the starting area and crossing the light sensors may cause you to be disqualified, and you may be asked to go to the back of the line and start all over.
Produce one last quick "chirp" right before your start, as long as you can prevent your car racing from rolling too far forward into the starting area. This can give you one last chance to heat your tires before the race and also give you a slight rolling motion at your start, which can be an advantage.
Determine whether or not you want to wet your racing slicks in the water box prior to the starting line. The water box is a shallow trench that you can drive through prior to the race. While this will help you to spin your tires faster in the burnout, more and more experienced racers question whether wet racing slicks really contribute to the speed of the car racing.
Perform the burnout to heat your tires. Experienced drivers can usually get the rear tires to spin by dropping the clutch hard and quickly stepping down on the gas. You can also step on the gas and the brakes at the same time, which will allow for a more extended burnout (although this method may cause excessive wear and tear on your brake pads as well as your tires).
Be careful not to burn out for too long. Most experienced drivers keep the tires spinning for no more than 3 seconds, long enough to discharge any excess dirt and debris from the tire surfaces. Other drivers "chirp" their tires, which means that the burnout is short enough to make a brief chirping noise.
Give yourself plenty of room before the starting line to complete the burnout, in case your tires catch quickly and propel you forward. Accidentally moving into the starting area and crossing the light sensors may cause you to be disqualified, and you may be asked to go to the back of the line and start all over.
Produce one last quick "chirp" right before your start, as long as you can prevent your car racing from rolling too far forward into the starting area. This can give you one last chance to heat your tires before the race and also give you a slight rolling motion at your start, which can be an advantage.
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