Not even morning rain could dampen the spirits of competitors at the inaugural Tyre Massacre burnout competition, held at Winton Motor Raceway on March 29.
The event was organised by Naughty Corner and proved incredibly successful with all eighty-eight participants.
Naughty Corner founder Jarred Boyle was absolutely delighted with the feedback following the conclusion of Tyre Massacre
“We’ve had no complaints,” Boyle said. “The competitors that came were stressed about the rain, the same as I was, because it was wet in the morning, but we did a restructure and changed it to one round.
“We ended up with 88 entries. That could have easily been well over 100 if I had opened the day up, but I wanted everyone to do two burnouts for their qualifying.
“We had people come from all over, from South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales, so a pretty broad entry field.”
The format of the day changed on the fly due to the weather, Boyle however felt this ended up benefitting the event.
“It was meant to be two rounds, but because we had half the first round time taken off us due to weather, we did one round and then a top 25 final to qualify for the burnout masters tickets,” he recalled.
“It ended up working in their favour, because the people that wanted to do more burnouts got to do more, but we made sure that everyone got one burnout, that was the main objective for the day. In the end we still got to do the final.
“It was sort of a blessing in disguise that the rain did happen, because it ended up being a better day for some of the entrants.”
The cars at the event were not old bangers, far from it in fact, a lot of cars are worth six digits.
As the images show, they are certainly not the standard road cars that rolled off the factory floor.
“The cars are pretty impressive,” he said. “The average burnout car was probably 35-40 grand in the blown class.
“I’d say the average in other classes would be about $100,000. That’s just an average, but some of the cars that came on the weekend, their motors were worth 100 grand. It varies drastically.
On the competition side of it, there were multiple car classes based on engine performance and size etc.
The Blown class was won by Jamie Carnage and doing so went home with the Burnout Masters ticket, with Kyle Hardy second and Mark Ansaldi third.
Modified went the way of Tyson Smyth who also got a Burnout Masters ticket, Michael Coumva was the runner-up in class, with Brooklyn Ainsworth third.
Anthony Wren was victorious in the Six-cylinder category, Tommy Cathie was second and Johnno Mitrousis third.
There were other awards handed out, Boyle himself was handed the award for the Biggest Fire and Jacob Drane won Biggest Tip.
As his name would suggest ‘Mad Dan’ won the Entertainer award, Hardy won Wildest Skid, Jezz Gearman the Best Presented award and Austin Cook the Hard Luck award.
