Russ:
A couple of years ago on my first run with nitrous at the Salt (a bike, for your information) -- I pushed the button at about the 3 3/4. The tire immediately lit up -- and even though I pedalled it some, I was new enough with nitrous that I didn't let off the button nor get out of the throttle enough, ending up spinning the tire for 1 1/4 miles -- 20-25 seconds. My guess is that the rear tire was spinning at about 230-235 mph, but the timing slip said I was doing about 217 out the back door. I've still got the tire -- it was its sixth run, and is now in my museum of parts from which I learn (right next to the pistons with holes in 'em, etc). Three blisters, about the size of my thumbnail, and it was "let's go to the spare tire, Jon!" You can do the math about how much -- or how little -- spinning it takes to blister a tire. The bike & me weighs about 650#, weight dist. is 50-50.
Since then I've added 70# of lead and gone to a progressive nitrous system and a shaved tire, too.
There's some quantitative information for you.