...although, I may be wrong. I know I haven't had good luck removing the spare on a RWD car I raced before. A good practice on RWD cars at the track is to air down the rear tires(I normally run ~32psi cold on street tires for daily driving...but air them down to ~18-20psi on the track, you wouldn't beleive how much it helps)...also, most RWD owners air up their front tires a bit. I usually take a cheap little $15 air compressor powered by the car's cig lighter outlet when I go to the track unless I take my truck to carry more tools/my large compressor, etc...Another thing I do is pull around the water box(if you can, I've been to one track where there wasn't really room to pull around it..a small 1/8th mile track in GA)..large burnouts on street tires don't accomplish much except wasting rubber, before pulling up to the line, take off hard enough to spin the tires and turn them completely over to clean them off and heat them up a little. Most people also do small launches to test grip before staging. I took my 60' times down from ~2.3's to 2.0's by letting some air out of the tires and doing some light spinning before running the car. Good luck w/ your future trips to the track and sorry for rambling on so much. 
