ROC Evo

[John D.]

Just been watching the Race of Champions. Quite entertaining it was too.

At one point in an interlude between races some chap did a st load of doughnuts in a blue Evo. He stopped and left the car standing for a 30secs or so then drove off. Leaving what appeared to be some kind of liquid on the tarmac where each rear tyre had been. Was this coolant or what? Did the car have something rigged up to spray lubricant on to the tyres to aid the doughnuts?

[kevin63]

It was Terry Grant and if you do a search in Youtube you will see that his cars are not standard. I have seen some of the trick stuff inside his cars and anything goes so it could be something on the tyres or cooling for something.

[EDLT]

Spraying antifreeze on the tyres makes them slip more easily and creates more smoke (according to some max power types), maybe it was that.

[rallycross]

Evo's can do doughnuts!

I bought one of the ex Russ Swift E6 RS models, the one that was in a Clarkson video, the car was standard, Russ told me he just used to pump the tyres up to reduce the grip levels.

[EDLT]

rallycross said:

Evo's can do doughnuts!

I bought one of the ex Russ Swift E6 RS models, the one that was in a Clarkson video, the car was standard, Russ told me he just used to pump the tyres up to reduce the grip levels.

He uses an Evo 8 these days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JulYoHIad0

[mad4amanda]

I remember Russ` evo 6 that was a great car !
Donny shows left me feeling dizzy!

[John D.]

EDLT said:

Spraying antifreeze on the tyres makes them slip more easily and creates more smoke (according to some max power types), maybe it was that.

Reckon it could have been. Surprised it was really needed to get the car spinning; looked like it had plenty of power. Not the sort of stuff you want to dump on the circuit for the next round either (I guess it was off-line!).