I would suggest anyone doing it for the first time, find a big paved empty
> place and get used to it. My friends and I as teenagers used to compete to
> see who could punch it crank the wheel get the car spinning and then have it
> stop spinning the most perfectly in between the painted lines of a parking
> spot. It is amazing how predictable the spinning is and how much control
> the accelerator pedal actually gives you. One of my friends '71 Camaro was
> a lot better balanced spinner than my '71 Torino, my Torino tended to whip a
> lot more than his Camaro.
The problem is today cops hassle people who venture out to empty parking lots to improve their vehicle handling skills.