Drag Illustrated Issue 128, December 2017 | Page 21

2017 PHOTO ANNUAL We may not have been there to see what many believe to be the first-ever burnout at Riverside International Raceway in California back in 1969, but we’ve been in love with the art of tire-smoking ever since. The following is a collection of our greatest burnout photography from 2017 — by Brennan Shortall, Chris Graves, Rick Belden, Ian Tocher, Jason Dunn, Jeremy Patterson, John Fore III, Joe McHugh, James Sisk, Katie Anderson, Paul Grant, Roger Richards, Ron Lewis, Steven Wilson, Tara Bowker and Tera Graves.