{"id":13794,"date":"2021-11-20T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/auto\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2021-11-20T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:04:38","slug":"1131915_a-burnout-contest-viewed-through-a-thermal-camera-is-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=13794","title":{"rendered":"A burnout contest viewed through a thermal camera is wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burnouts can be fun to watch<\/a>, but the bigger the burnout, the more vision-obscuring smoke. Now an Australian drone operator has figured out a way around that problem: by filming a burnout contest with a thermal-imaging camera.<\/p>\n

First spotted by The Drive<\/em><\/a>, Queensland Aerial posted to YouTube this high-tech way of viewing a burnout. The short video shows two roughly minute-long burnouts, with both conventional and thermal imaging.<\/p>\n

As a refresher, thermal imaging renders normally-invisible infrared radiation visible. That means anything hot shows up bright, while everything else is rendered in darker hues. So instead of a cloud of smoke, you can actually see what the car is doing and track its path of tire destruction.<\/p>\n

With thermal imaging, the tires and their tracks are rendered as glowing streaks, as if Ghost Rider was behind the wheel. When a tire bursts during one burnout, what look like bits of lava are strewn about.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Australia leads the way in burnout-viewing innovation. The land Down Under is a perennial holder of the record for biggest simultaneous burnout<\/a>, grabbing it back from Saudi Arabia in 2019 with 126 cars smoking their tires together.<\/p>\n

Australia was also long a good source of burnout-capable cars, thanks to rear-wheel-drive sedans from Holden and Ford. While those cars stayed in the mainstream much longer in Australia than the U.S., the end of Australian car production put a stop to that. General Motors pulled the plug on Holden<\/a> in 2020, but it does still plan to sell the Chevrolet Corvette and Silverado in Australia. We look forward to seeing them at future burnout competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burnouts can be fun to watch, but the bigger the burnout, the more vision-obscuring smoke. Now an Australian drone operator has figured out a way around that problem: by filming a burnout contest with a thermal-imaging camera. First spotted by The Drive, Queensland Aerial posted to YouTube this high-tech way of viewing a burnout. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}