flat tyre Wrote:
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> Amazing. That's everything we could've ever hoped
> for from this new engine. When it was first
> announced, I genuinely believed for that they
> would sound good, but I guess everyone else's
> negativity got to me and I resigned myself to
> thinking that it would sound feeble. Thanks for
> sharing that, Gav. Nice to be proven wrong.
Yeah, outside of the inevitable Internetz stupidity, I seem to be one of the very few who actually seem to be looking forward to the new engine formula.
I've been able to look past the "1.6? Pffft I have one of those in my car" thing because having a 1.6 V6 Turbo in a Honda Civic (
or whatever it is) really isn't the same thing at all as a F1 1.6 V6 Turbo.
People who are judging the sound from clips released by Renault and Mercedes are again being far too presumptuous and premature in their "LOLZ sounds like a vacuum cleaner" because a engine rig/dyno - computer simulator generated sound is REALLY not the same thing as the sound generated by the actual complete car on the track where a whole host of other factors affect the overall sound
(i.e. vibration of the engine in relation to it's installation in the car, the atmosphere and environment of the circuit, reverb.. the Doppler effect etc etc).People forget that we've had 1.6 litre turbo charged engines in F1 before and those sounded pretty damn terrific actually. Ok granted.. The whole ERS thing is new in F1 terms but the point stands.
I view the new engine formula a engineering challenge which is
exactly what F1 is all about, the potential technology transfer to the motor industry is beneficial and certainly substantially more relevant than aerodynamics.
The only real downside I can see is the actual financial cost.