Originally posted by EsCoRtLvR
On crappy tracks sometimes I'll spin off the crap on my FWD, but not anything longer than 2 seconds or so. Just enough to get the road oil/tar/grease and sand off them. 
Exactly. A lot of my friends have cars that make do with power to only two wheels, and they get best results with a very short 2 second burnout, at the least once before the first run.