Best noise ever: Formula 1 V10 engine
Erik D’Amato of Pestiside and I were at the Formula 1 practice session on Friday at the Hungaroring. I was advised to wear earplugs. I didn’t.
Good call.
These cars make a sound unlike anything I’ve ever heard. The track is on the bottom of a bowl 15 minutes from Budapest and the noise reverbates from the surrounding hills and gets amplified and it’s so loud you can’t keep a conversation. It’s an angry noise, a high-pitched furious scream, the engines are revving at 19,000 rpm and they’re telling everyone within earshot (which, in this case, is a few miles in every direction): WE ARE SO BLASTING FREE OF THESE CHASSIS AND WE’RE SO GONNA RIP YOU TO PIECES
This is a picture of one of the Jordan cars. I took it with a point and shoot Canon through a pair of pocket binoculars:
![[Jordan Formula 1 car at the Hungaroring on the 20th Hungarian Grand Prix]](http://www.kzamm.com/media/pictures/jordanf1.jpg "Jordan Formula 1 car at the Hungaroring on the 20th Hungarian Grand Prix")
This is one of the Toyotas:
![[Toyota Formula 1 car at the Hungaroring on the 20th Hungarian Grand Prix]](http://www.kzamm.com/media/pictures/toyotaf1.jpg "Toyota Formula 1 car at the Hungaroring on the 20th Hungarian Grand Prix")
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