Dragstrip Etiquette
Don?t start your burnout until directed by an official. He?ll usually give you some sort of hand signal. Also make sure you are all the way on the track and facing directly forwards.
Don?t do burnouts in the water, period. Don?t do burnouts with treaded street tires. Water gets into the treads and tracks all the way to the starting line. This makes the drivers with slicks very angry. Heating up a street tire is useless because of the hard rubber that street tires are made of. It won’t help your 1/4 mile times.
Don?t do a John Force-style burnout (i.e. spinning the tires through and past the starting line, forcing you to back up) unless you don?t have any front brakes and/or you are John Force.
If you are bracket racing, don?t lock up your brakes at the end of the track in an attempt to not "break out". Locking ?them up at this speed could be very dangerous. This isn?t an issue for test-n-tune nights, but be sure you leave plenty of room to brake at the end of the track without doing a massive ABS stop.
Some tracks employ a courtesy rule. This means that the first car into the staging beams should light only the pre-stage light. When the second car is pre-staged, then either of you can move up slightly into the staging lights.
Make sure your numbers and dial-in (if applicable) are visible from the tower.
Make sure you get in the right staging lane, and make sure that you don?t attempt to run in a class where your car would not be appropriate (e.g. you probably shouldn?t end up racing a junior dragster in your Impala). Ask if you are unsure.

I wouldnt say not to burn out to the point of smoking tires but enough to clean them up from gravel/dust/debris from the pits and staging lanes off them.

and if your going to GLD stay out the right lane... it sucks

So you mean I overdid my burnout? Lol.

No such thing, as long as ya don't pop your tires. If ya did that, then ya overdid it...LOL

Nice write up there Tom!!!!!