I love the new sound of the F1 cars, like going back to the 80's
What's your opinion?

 

sounds great

 

Sounds ok but crap compared to a screaming V10

 

Wheres the dump valve?

 

F1 is getting slower Don't sound to bad tho

 

I really like the noise of them, a huge change from the v10s and even the v8s

 

Nothing beats the sound of the 1995 V12 Ferrari 412T/2

 

I know a guy that was at testing and he said they seem very slow and the sound is crap.......... i for one who loves going to the F1 am gutted as the noise added to the event

 

Sorry I dont follow F1 but what are the engines now .?

 

1.6 V6 turbo

 

Wicked .. Thanks mate

 

Think they sound great. Especially at 1:48 on that video Shame the cars are actually going to be slower round the lap.

 

Cool vids. It will be an interesting season this year.

 

Sounds like a lot of the old Penske Indi cars back in the 90,s

 

Cars are slower due to none of them being optimised for performance yet, they are also operating in colder than usual temperatures and they are on special 'winter test' tyres from pirelli

Expect the laptimes in Race 1 to be comparable to that of last year

 

Wonder how much boost they run

 

And if there's any room to play with boost settings

 

I've found f1 to get more and more boring.

I'll have a watch this year and see what it's like.

Old corrupt Bernie is taking the fun out of it.

 

They do sound a bit tame.

 

Don't like the 'new' noise at all. As said already, to me, and a lot of other people, it kills the atmosphere and changes a key part of F1. Change for the sake of change....

 

You haven't seen them in anger yet! Testing is all smoke and mirrors! Nobody wants to show there hand yet. You wait until the first round. I guess in race trim they will run about 45 psi

 

Lol at people saying they are slower, Theyre kicking out the same bhp as last years.
Winter testing is all about reliability and racking up the laps. You won't see teams risking flat laps when they have very little spares with them at Jerez should a driver shunt it.

 

They won't boost huge psi because fuel flow is limited

It's not change for changes sake, it's change to develop new technology and to stay relevant.

 

Someone who has been bought up on turbo cars I think they sound better this year,
No one will notice if they are 5seconds a lap slower.

Mark

 

Have the people who say they don't like the sound of these engines ever heard them in person, or just on the videos etc? I bet the engines sound wicked when your actually watching them round track. When your watching these cars for real the difference in sound is like night and day, that's what I realised.

 

Can't see them being slower than last year, they have more overall power and triple the torque. Just wait until they get the mapping all sorted. Testing means nothing!

 

They sound half cool half shite! Nothing compared to V8's, which are nothing compared to V10's and so it goes on!

 

I love it

 

Some serious turbo noise

 

Very sad the sound has been dulled down, that's half the appeal and puts me off watching it. Ill stick to touring cars and Ł20 race day tickets lol

 

they sound better when your there

 

Cant wait for the season to start.

 

 

That Ferrari sounds awesome. Ok they aren't as loud but a completely different sound which is great

 

On throttle they sound great, especially the Ferrari, quite similar to the 80s cars. Off throttle no more popping, bit of a shame.

 

Ferrari sounds different to the others, hope they do good this year as with Fernando and Kimi they have the best drivers and hopefully the best car

 

Did anyone see Sky F1 Ted's Diary last night? They played a clip of the Ferrari coming into the pits and swithching off, then there was a turbine like sound for about 30 seconds as the turbo slowed down and the TERS/HERS? shut down. Sounded awesome

I also think that as they are only reported to be using 10-11k rpm that with 24 at the full 15k rpm on raceday it will sound like the early 80's, the reputed golden age of F1. Cant wait

 

this may be of interest to some of you.

 

That does sound different, but does sound nice.

 

I like the sound more than the V8, and v10,s.