{"id":3876,"date":"2014-03-24T06:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:25:30","slug":"the-noise-about-the-f1-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/the-noise-about-the-f1-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noise about the F1 Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"f1<\/a>Those who like to follow the news from the motorsport world will doubtless have heard about the furore about what they won\u2019t be hearing. Yes, folks, there have been a bunch of new regulations introduced that have seen the engines making not quite the same noise as they used to, as there\u2019s been a rev limit put on the 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 hybrids: 15,000 instead of the 18,000 of last year.<\/p>\n

To judge by what some commentators have been saying, you\u2019d think that the new F1s were dead silent. Wrong. However, they do sound very different. If you remember back to your high school physics days, you might recall that the more frequently something vibrates, the higher the note it produces. The rate of revs sets up vibrations in the air, which creates sound waves. The old sort of engine produced more vibrations, so you got that higher pitched note. The new ones have a deeper tone.<\/p>\n

Personally, I like this. One of the two things I have always disliked about F1 motor racing is the sound. The \u201cscream\u201d of the engine beloved of some always reminded me either of a very whiny toddler or a mosquito beside a microphone. It put my teeth on edge.\u00a0 Trackside at an F1 meet to me was reminiscent of something from Dante\u2019s Inferno: all vile fumes and hideous incessant screaming noises.<\/p>\n

The new noise, however, isn\u2019t as hellish. Decibel-wise, it\u2019s the same as it used to be, but the note is a lot more tolerable. The race cars sound more like aeroplanes than oversized wasps. Let\u2019s face it: deep notes in a powerful engine are always lovely to listen to. It\u2019s one of the things that makes a Jaguar<\/a> a Jaguar (and, for those who like two wheels, it\u2019s one of the key characteristics of Harley-Davidsons and Triumphs).<\/p>\n

Apparently, the moves have been introduced as a way of making F1 racing slightly more eco-friendly and sustainable, as these new engines use a tad less petrol than the old ones. This is something I\u2019m in favour of as well, as my other main objection to F1 has been the fact that it does chew through a lot of petrol just to whizz around a circular racetrack at high speed. There is only a limited amount of crude oil on the planet and while motor racing is a lot of fun, it\u2019s good that they\u2019re using a smaller share. Means that there\u2019ll be a shade more for the ambulances.<\/p>\n

The manufacturers are liking the move, with Renault <\/a>and Honda <\/a>(with McLaren) apparently getting back into the F1 act. Given the way that what happens on the racetrack eventually trickles down into the production cars that you and I drive to work or the school run, this is a good thing. It should mean that we\u2019ll get better, more efficient hybrids on the roads. Eventually.<\/p>\n

For those who haven\u2019t heard the difference, you can hear it at this very popular video\u00a0<\/a>(from Melbourne, no less!).\u00a0Note the lack of earmuffs in the 2014 footage. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who like to follow the news from the motorsport world will doubtless have heard about the furore about what they won\u2019t be hearing. Yes, folks, there have been a bunch of new regulations introduced that have seen the engines making not quite the same noise as they used to, as there\u2019s been a rev […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11977,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}