# Question about doing a burnout in a car

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**Created:** [July 18, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-doing-a-burnout-in-a-car/915677 "2020-07-18T15:28:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-doing-a-burnout-in-a-car/915677/21 "2020-07-22T01:47:10Z")

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OP mentioned being on a wood bridge - i assume that means the driving surface/deck may have been wood as well? That certainly would have helped as a wooden deck would have significantly lower friction that a classic asphalt or concrete surface and also wouldn’t become ‘sticky’ as it heated up like asphalt (bitumen) does.

When I was a teen we would put diesel on the road to make it slippery for burnouts. It also created a pleasing additional quantity of smoke and smell.  
We called standing burnouts ‘diesels’ for this reason.

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