It is kind of amazing that in the billion dollar world of F1 it still comes down to the simple visceral experience that fans are getting to keep the sport popular. Among the loudest (see what we did there) complaints from Formula One fans over the last couple of seasons has surrounded the way that the car sound. Gone are the days of ear splitting noise from V8 and V10 engine being spun to the stratosphere and here are the days of 1.6L V6 engines with turbos augmented by electronics that even we don’t fully understand. They are not even called engines anymore but “power packs”. Anyway, they sound like crap as compared to those of previous generations and F1 knows this.
The photo above shows and early effort to make the cars louder by creating a kind of trumpet style exhaust pipe. Remember the “Megs” guys used to attached to the end of the exhaust on their stock 305 Camaro? This was the gazillion dollar version. For the 2016 season though there has been progress made on the loudness front and that comes in the form of a rule that requires two exhaust pipes. What does this mean? Basically that the waste gate pipe and the pipe coming off of the turbine need to be separate. In a totally wild and crazy move, F1 will allow THREE pipes if teams want to do that. Yeah we said it THREE FREAKING PIPES. Ok, does anyone really care?
Bottom line, those UPS truck sounding race cars that looks like objects from Planet 9? They’ll be louder but still sound like they should have your Jegs delivery on the back of them.
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No thanks. Multi-million dollar, fart-pipe, spec-racing just ain’t my thing.
“Fart cans” on an F1? Can’t wait…or not. I’d rather see Bernie get some lifts for his shoes.
wait. That’s not Photo Shop?
Look, just allow any configuration and number of cylinders up to 16 AND turbos. I got your sound right here.
“Power Packs”….yea no, how about “Power Units”
Just as I thought F1 couldn’t get any more sadder, it does.
Bring back the turbo era of the late 70’s and early 80’s.
The flame belching, crackling, crazy horsepower monsters they were.
And they even sounded good without any fart funnels up there bum.
30 sec worth of nitrous oxide to deploy at any time during the race. Screw the KERS system… Also, I really like my little remote control falcon thingie, my ability to drive underwater, my deployable “tread” on my tires, my jumping thingies, and my twin sawblades. Also, Trixie is a total kitten — she puts Nicole Scherzinger to shame…
My little brother needs to keep his mouth shut.