Theres nothing stupider and more awesome than doing a donut in your car.
An important disclaimer about doing donuts
You shouldnt.
Driving in an aggressive manner in public is almost definitely illegal where you live.
Doing donuts is dangerous: You could flip your car, or lose control and crash.
Its bad for your tires and bad for your engine.
Toxic tire smoke is bad for your lungs and bad for the environment.
It is not safe.
It sends a bad message to the youth of America.
Other than it being totally rad, theres no good reason to do donuts at all.
What are you trying to prove, man?
What are you rebelling against anyway?
Preferably a rear-wheel drive, manual transmission car.
Some water: Some donut-nuts like wetting the ground (or their tires) first so theres less traction.
Donuts are hard enough on a car that has been well maintained.
A tuneup might mitigate some of the wear and tear.
A traffic cone (optional, but recommended).
A friend to take the video and dial 911 when you crash.
So you’re free to see it.
This is going to act as your focal pointthe center of your circle.
Turn off your cars traction/stability control (this is vital).
Put the car in first gear.
Turn your wheel to the left.
Far, but dont lock it all the way.
You want around 3,500 to 4,000 RPM.
You should now be in your donut, with the rear of the car swinging around.
Dont panic; counter-steer instead.
Ovals are for losers.
Throttle: The steering wheel is secondary to the throttle when it comes to controlling a donut.
More throttle makes the circle wider.
Less makes it tighter.
Steering is mostly for fine-tuning your orbit.
Stop when you grow tired of doing a donut or hit a tree.
Press the brake or take your foot off the gas.
How to do an advanced rear wheel drive donut
Lay down your cone.
Gradually increase your speed until you feel the tires start to slip.
Take your footoffthe accelerator.
This will shift the cars weight forward, making the back light and floaty.
When you feel the weight shift, mash the pedal to the floor.
Let the steering wheel turn all the way to the opposite side.
Ease up on the gas to about halfway.
Dont be discouraged if it doesnt work right.
Even extremely stupid things take practice.
The first works on automatic transmissionandmanual transmission cars; the second is only possible in cars with a clutch.
Forward front-wheel drive donuts
Wait for the road to be wet or turn a hose on it.
Turn off traction/stability control.
Dont put the car in (D)rive.
Put it in 1st, or hill climbing gear.
Drive forward slowly
Turn the steering wheel left or right almost all the way.
Accelerate sharply; the car should start to slip.
you’ve got the option to control your circle by controlling the throttle and the handbrake.
Of course, cars are not designed to drive in reverse very fast or for very long.
Jerk your steering wheel in the opposite direction.
Seriously, dont do this.
Youre going to fuck up your car.
Heresa mail truck doing donutsin the snow.
And this guyput wagon wheels on his car and did donuts.
But just to be a downer, here are afew videosofdonutcrashes.
