none of teams run near the rev limit so what would increasing it accomplish?sweetmate wrote:Better way to fix the noise get rid of the rev limit add maybe a little more fuel to the restriction and take away one of the allotted engines for the year.
you have stated the exact reason the cars have ended up being optimized at around the 10k rpm with coupled with the turbos and all other stuff make them sound so limp the cars should have been able to work at there full rpm capacity no fuel flow limit just kg allowance end off and allowed engine design to progress. They would have sounded so much better.langwadt wrote:none of teams run near the rev limit so what would increasing it accomplish?sweetmate wrote:Better way to fix the noise get rid of the rev limit add maybe a little more fuel to the restriction and take away one of the allotted engines for the year.
Some of the teams are not even using their full 100kg allowance so why would they add fuel they are not going to use?
if you want them to run higher rpms you have to change the fuel flow formula, but they have spend year optimizing
for ~10krpms, you can't just tell them - by the way you have to run at 15krpm and expect that to work
take away an engine and you expect them to drive harder?
Can't really judge from a mobile phone camera sound, would like them to test it at a gp weekend on Fridaybhall wrote:LOLHolm86 wrote:http://www.mobypicture.com/user/piusgas ... w/16896640 <-- sound of the new megaphone exhaust.
It sounds like a semi-truck (lorry).
yeah maybe in a class room, not on a race tracknotsofast wrote:Less noise is a good thing.
Is that not the challenge in the sport. Designing cars around such limitations is what have kept them going for nearly 70 years...bhall wrote:Sure. I think the regulations have reflected aesthetic desires for quite some time. Neither open wheels nor an open cockpit are ideal from a design standpoint, but both are required because that's what people think F1 cars should look like.prince wrote:If we understand correctly, they are trying increase the noise to enhance the spectacle. If so, then can't they change certain regulations to make the spectacle more aesthetic, including that of changing nose shapes too ?
An artificial exhaust note might be one step too far. But, really, nothing in F1 surprises me anymore.
As I'm struggling to find superlatives to adequately describe the degree of ridiculesness of this solution, I am inclined to agree with you.This is an insult to engineering.therealjustin wrote:That just looks wrong. I think Mercedes are only testing this to make a point though.