Watch a Porsche Carrera GT put on a display of donut-making skills in a fairly tight space.
It seems that many of the videos online showing a performance car doing burnouts and donuts in a parking lot end with some sort of accident – especially when a Mustang is involved – but the Porsche Carrera GT shows how donuts in a tight area should be done. In a car which is somewhat famously hard to handle, the driver is able to get the tires spinning, whip the rear end out and keep the car spinning around and around with the crowd of spectators and cars all in close proximity.
The video, which comes from YouTuber MattyB727, begins with the Porsche Carrera GT with a driver and passenger pulling away from the camera and a small crowd of people, into an open area of the parking lot. As soon as the rear tires begin to spin, the driver whips the rear end around and the donut action begins. As the car comes towards the camera, we can see just how close the Porsche is to the crowd and as the car heads off into the distance, we can see a BMW and a Lotus parked on the other side of the parking lot – creating a relatively tight spot for smoky donuts.
However, with skilled driver Raul Marchisio (manager of RM Autosportin Monaco) at the helm, this Porsche supercar is able to safely execute a series of tire-slaying donuts. At times, the smoke pours from the rear tires and at other times, the RPMs drop as the driver works to keep the car away from the crowd and pointed in the proper direction, but throughout the video, the sweet sound of the Carrera GT engine is as great as the burnout action.
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"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
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