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Hi
To me they sound like an over revved lawn mower, what a horrid noise. That is not going to make for an exciting years racing
best regards
Mike

sound f***** poop mate
was watching practise live yesterday before I went to work,
even the guys on the pit wall hate the new sound lol

Mike, want to swap lawn mowers?

please don't tell me you like them Reg

No Tony but a noise like that would sure hack of me neighbours.

Hi Reg
right I'll be over tomorrow, we'll get the head off your briggs and stratton and skim it, remove the exhaust system and replace it with three feet of copper water pipe and re-jet the carb to run methanol, that should wake the neighbors up.
best regards
Mike

Fook me!!

Reg is still alive... ??

Answer your voice mails Mr Downer !!

I'm still waiting to watch qualifying late tonight when the brood all bugger off to bed.....

they might sound garbage but I bet there are going to be some cracking blow ups in the early season.

kiwicar wrote:Hi
To me they sound like an over revved lawn mower, what a horrid noise. That is not going to make for an exciting years racing
best regards
Mike

When ever was it exciting . Watch moto gp for exciting

Hi
I must confess I thought last year was dull but I didn't think they could make it worse. Last year it was a case of follow a red bull around a track and maybe have a bit of jostling for position mid field. This year it is form a nice orderly line after lap 1 and drive around trying not to have your fuel run out and hope nothing brakes. I came down to watch it at lap 3 and I don't think I saw anyone try and overtake anyone else. If you want to save fuel, dump all the stupid heavy electrical stuff and make the races half as long, at least then you might get some racing!
Maybe when Berny finally goes we may see some sanity return and someone will remember it is called motor racing.
Bast regards
Mike

Stina wrote: Watch moto gp for exciting

Exactly.....

I watched it today. And fell asleep faster than normal

I could hardly hear the engines ?

Plenty of breakages though. So not unlike RWYB

kiwicar wrote:Hi
I must confess I thought last year was dull but I didn't think they could make it worse. Last year it was a case of follow a red bull around a track and maybe have a bit of jostling for position mid field. This year it is form a nice orderly line after lap 1 and drive around trying not to have your fuel run out and hope nothing brakes. I came down to watch it at lap 3 and I don't think I saw anyone try and overtake anyone else. If you want to save fuel, dump all the stupid heavy electrical stuff and make the races half as long, at least then you might get some racing!
Maybe when Berny finally goes we may see some sanity return and someone will remember it is called motor racing.
Bast regards
Mike

Actually that's not quite true, last year started off to be a great season with 4 different winners in the first 6 races, until Red Bull complained about the tyres and they changed back to the 2012 compounds, which is what the Red Bull was set up to use. After that, it was a forgone conclusion and one of the worst seasons on record it terms of watchability.

I'm going to give it more time for 2014. The cars do sound wierd, I miss the screaming 18k V8s too ... but they have some interesting sounds on rundown/deccellaration from the hybrid power units. They're only a little bit slower than last year. The cars don't weigh much different from preceding seasons either. The power is down in terms of bhp (600bhp +160bhp boost), but the torque is up, way way up! F1 has moved on, that's the whole point of the race series and always has been, pushing technology. If you want old skool, watch a revival race series. They certainly needed these changes as F1 had stagnated terribly.

The race yesterday was ok, not brilliant, but as long as RB don't win, I'm all in. Gutted for Hamilton, really happy for Rosberg and McLaren had a great start to the season.

Berny won't be lasting much longer in F1 now, given what's happened in the past year.

I'm not a fan- they are too quiet! You can barely hear the engine noise on the trackside shots above the commentators voices...

I loved the bit where it switched to an onboard shot with one of the Mercedes and Coulthard said something like "Sounds like a Massey Ferguson..."

Its not proper racing either - inbetween managing the tyres and the fuel what percentage of the race distance are the drivers actually driving with the hammer down?

And why does motor racing have to be green anyway? Its like having a pork pie eating contest at a Vegan Hippy get together... Surely all the fuel savings made in the races must be massively outweighed by the flights everyone has to make and the tens of thousands of miles the motorhomes and support trucks drive each year.

I know, i know, the technology will trickle into the mainstream in a few years time - but you know what? My newest car is 28 years old, so it doesnt really make a difference to me!

Rant over.